Tag: Smart Contract
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New Transparent Blockchain-Based Cloud Platform by Oracle and Its Leading Competitors
Technology firm Oracle has announced the scheduled launch of its Blockchain technology-based Oracle Cloud Platform in 2018. The platform is aimed at helping businesses employ the technology for supply chain management and smart contracts. Follow Oracle ✔@Oracle .@jiri_kram: Oracle’s move to #blockchain confirms their #cloudsuperiority http://bit.ly/2idLQOg @LinkedIn 11:53 AM – Aug 18, 2017 · Redwood City, CA According to Oracle Cloud Platform senior vice president…
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AXA Is Using Ethereum’s Blockchain for a New Flight Insurance Product
French insurance giant AXA has launched a new flight delay insurance product that uses the public ethereum blockchain to store and process payouts. The product, called Fizzy, is being pitched as a “smart insurance” tool that flyers can use to insure their trips if their flight is delayed by two hours or more. As such, the…
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Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon Collaborate on Scalable Smart Contracts
On August 9th, the OmiseGo (OMG) [chart link] project sent the following tweet: ✔@omise_go Yes, @omise_go = first Plasma.io project CC @jcp @VitalikButerin 7:43 PM – Aug 9, 2017 Still in working draft phase, the Plasma whitepaper outlines what authors Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum) and Joseph Poon (co-creator of the Lightning Network) believe to be a viable scaling…
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BlockCAT Sets Up Shop for Smart Contract Apps
The Ethereum network and its Smart Contract system, is another step in decentralized interactions, opening up a world of possibilities. It is this world of decentralized apps (dApps) that BlockCAT wants to bring to an all-access marketplace. DApps are just starting to take hold as developers experiment and discovernew and innovative uses for these self-executing, trustless contracts. However, the…