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E-FRESCO Launches Blockchain Platform For Fruit Supply Chain

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E-FRESCO , a fresh fruit virtual market, is introducing blockchain capabilities to help sustain cross-border needs, according to a report. Canada, the Middle East, Europe and South America, customers trying to buy fresh fruit and vegetables online through the marketplace can now use blockchain-based shipment and B2B technology.

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Facebook Changes Blockchain Name To Avoid Confusion

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Facebook’s blockchain division, Calibra, will get a new name as a way to distance it from Facebook’s Libra digital currency, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday (May 26). . People were confusing Libra and Calibra all the time,” said David Marcus, Facebook’s head of blockchain. “In In hindsight it’s hard to blame them.”.

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For IBM, Blockchain as ‘Team Sport’

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In the ongoing move to embrace blockchain, Facebook may have its allies. As reported, the social media giant has some support from IBM. IBM has said it is “willing” to work with Facebook on blockchain, as noted by an IBM executive. Separately, other tech giants are getting into the blockchain fray. Cisco, Too.

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Bitcoin Daily: African Open Blockchain Ecosystem In The Works; Authorities Shut Down Bitcoin Scam In Brazil

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Sekunjalo Investment Holdings has teamed up with Chinese public blockchain leader Ultrain Technology Limited to develop a pan-African open blockchain system called the African Chain 3.0, The scammers sought victims through social media, and told them that investments would grow as much as 3 percent to 4 percent every day.

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How China Is Clamping Down On Crypto Trading With Social Media

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The Chinese government has a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency: While it seems to be enthusiastic about the applications of blockchain technology, the country has banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) and blocked crypto trading sites. billion fund focused on the blockchain.

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Blockchain Gives Facebook Options — And Some Competitive Heft

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At least one thing is clear about Facebook ’s new interest in blockchain: It will help the social media giant keep up with the Joneses. No one outside Facebook has yet cracked why the company is creating a blockchain unit and putting David Marcus, one of its senior executives, in charge of it. “Could it be?

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Bitcoin Daily: Ping An’s FinTech Arm Teams Up To Launch Blockchain Solution; CFTC Calls For Default Ruling For Alleged Ponzi Scheme Founder

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OneConnect Financial Technology and China Merchants Port Group ( CMPort ) will work to create a blockchain-based system with Shenzhen customs to serve the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. OneConnect is the financial arm for Ping An Insurance, the largest insurer in China.

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