Microsoft continues blockchain developments.
January 15, 2019
Microsoft is one of the front runners in developing enterprise blockchain platforms. This week, we see a slew of patent documents published for Microsoft, including IoT applications, data storage, blockchain interfaces, and blockchain…
Mastercard develops new, partitioned blockchain
January 9, 2019
Mastercard has been actively investing in blockchain developments for financial services. This week, we see Mastercard is developing a partitioned blockchain for storing multiple transaction formats and types in a single blockchain with…
Panasonic Navigates Autonomous Vehicles on the Blockchain
December 19, 2018
Panasonic, the Japanese electronics conglomerate, has been active in both autonomous vehicles and blockchain developments. From this week’s patent data, we see that Panasonic is combining these two areas by utilizing blockchain to…
State Farm is testing a blockchain-based solution to streamline subrogation processes.
December 11, 2018
State Farm is testing a blockchain-based solution to streamline subrogation processes.
This week, we see Alibaba is improving blockchain processing efficiency with parallel service data processing.
December 11, 2018
Alibaba has been actively developing blockchain technologies. This week, we see it is improving blockchain processing efficiency with parallel service data processing. In existing technology, the blockchain node can start a service…
Huawei is developing blockchain-based copyright authorization management technologies.
December 11, 2018
Huawei is developing blockchain-based copyright authorization management technologies. Huawei has been a member of, and contributor to, the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Blockchain Consortium since October 2016. It was announced in April…
Robert Bosch is developing new technologies for adding transactions to a blockchain with multiplication triples.
December 11, 2018
Robert Bosch is developing new technologies for adding transactions to a blockchain with multiplication triples. It was reported recently that Robert Bosch has been working with customers and vendors to develop various blockchain…
Verizon is developing a framework for blockchain-based micro-services in a distributed environment.
December 11, 2018
Verizon is developing a framework for blockchain-based micro-services in a distributed environment.
JP Morgan Chase is developing account agnostic transaction routing and using blockchain.
December 11, 2018
JP Morgan Chase is developing account agnostic transaction routing and using blockchain to store the transactions and their routing.
Mastercard is increasing the anonymization of a wallet and the user associated.
December 11, 2018
Mastercard is increasing the anonymization of a wallet and the user associated therewith in a blockchain by the use of one or more intermediary addresses to obscure the source and destination of funds in a blockchain transaction.
PayPal is embedding a cryptographical payment token within a digital image and video.
December 11, 2018
PayPal is embedding a cryptographical payment token within a digital image and video. It was reported 12/6/2018 that PayPal has launched an internal blockchain-based inventive platform for employees. Employees can access their tokens…
The Bank of New York Mellon is developing a distributed, centrally authored blockchain network.
December 11, 2018
The Bank of New York Mellon is developing a distributed, centrally authored blockchain network for generating and transmitting blocks of encrypted transaction records such that only select encrypted transaction records can be decrypted and…
Balanced Media is using blockchain to dispatch and manage computing tasks relating to video game development.
December 11, 2018
Balanced Media, founded in 2016 and based in McKinney TX, is developing online gaming software technology. Balanced Media is using blockchain to dispatch and manage computing tasks relating to video game development.
Bluefin Payment Systems provides secure payment technology for independent software vendors, enterprises, financial institutions, and small-medium sized businesses worldwide.
December 11, 2018
Bluefin Payment Systems was formerly known as Capital Payments and changed its name to Bluefin Payment Systems LLC in August 2012. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Atlanta GA with additional offices in Melville NY,…
Episode Six is developing exchange systems for transactions with various types of value units including bitcoins.
December 11, 2018
Episode Six, founded in 2015 and based in Hong Kong, provides a cloud-based payment software solution. Episode Six is developing exchange systems for transactions with various types of value units including bitcoins.
Linius is developing digital video content delivery with a video content blockchain architecture.
December 11, 2018
Linius, founded in 2011 and based in Melbourne Australia, provides video virtualization technologies. Linius is developing digital video content delivery with a video content blockchain architecture.
Project Fanchise is an ownership group of sports teams, allowing fans to select head coaches and even call each play during games.
December 11, 2018
Project Fanchise, founded in 2015 and based in Hermosa Beach, CA, is an ownership group of sports teams, allowing fans to select head coaches and even call each play during games. Project Fanchise is developing blockchain-based…
New patent application published for Inmentis focused on personalized social media
December 11, 2018
Inmentis was registered as a California Foreign Limited-Liability Company on April 4, 2017. This week, we see a slew of patent application published for Inmentis focused on a personalized social media system and graphical user interface…
Market Highlights
December 11, 2018
It was announced 12/10/2018 that State Farm is testing a blockchain-based solution to speed up the subrogation processes in the insurance industry. State Farm is working with another insurer to understand how an enterprise blockchain…
Financial services companies (e.g., JP Morgan Chase, Mastercard, PayPal, and The Bank of New York Mellon) continue pursuing protections for their blockchain technologies.
December 11, 2018
Financial services companies (e.g., JP Morgan Chase, Mastercard, PayPal, and The Bank of New York Mellon) continue pursuing protections for their blockchain technologies.
Amazon announced two blockchain-based services.
December 10, 2018
Amazon announced on 11/28/2018 at AWS re:Invent that it has introduced two new services including the Amazon Managed Blockchain and the Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). The Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service to…
Symbiont and 9 other financial services and technology firms are working to establish a Code of Conduct for emerging digital asset markets.
December 10, 2018
Symbiont, formerly known as Counterparty, founded in 2013 and renamed in 2015, is a NYC-based blockchain company. Symbiont is developing a blockchain platform for capital markets and providing solutions for mortgages, syndicated loans,…
Sprint and NXM Labs have launched a 5G-ready, connected-car platform with blockchain-based security features.
December 10, 2018
NXM Labs, founded in 2016 with offices in San Francisco, NYC, and Toronto, utilizes blockchain and advanced cryptology technologies to enable smart IoT devices to operate and communicate with each other automatically and securely without…
Mercato is an online grocery marketplace that connects merchants, artisans, and purveyors with customers based on blockchain.
December 10, 2018
Mercato, founded in 2015, based in NYC, and formerly known as Grocery Marketplace, is an online grocery marketplace that connects merchants, artisans, and purveyors with customers based on blockchain.

