BitPay Joins Microsoft's Blockchain Platform Among New Partners
Microsoft’s blockchain -as-a-service (Baas) endeavor now sees four new partners signing up for the service that will be made available for the software giant’s clients on Azure, its cloud platform. Microsoft has been on a heightened drive lately with signing up new partners for its BaaS offering. In its most recent update, the software giant has revealed new partners including prominent Bitcoin payment processor – BitPay. Marley Gray, director of technology strategy for US Financial Services revealed the latest additions to the ‘Azure Blockchain Ecosystem’ in a blog post. With the....
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Microsoft's Azure blockchain and its blockchain-as-a-service endeavor is now adding three new partners to its blockchain-toolkit platform, with one of them even providing a Bitcoin data service. Soon after launching its blockchain-based service for customers of its cloud platform Azure last month, Microsoft has been ramping up its partners who will serve as collaborators and service providers. Last week, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Ripple, the interledger protocol to its blockchain toolkit. In a new blog post by Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy for Financial....
Microsoft has announced the latest update to its forthcoming blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) offering for its cloud-based Azure platform. In a blog post, US financial services strategy director Marley Gray indicated four new partners have joined the project, including bitcoin payment processor BitPay; blockchain rewards platform Manifold Technology; bitcoin tax service LibraTax; and proof-of-ownership blockchain service Emercoin. With more than $32m in venture capital raised, BitPay is the best-funded startup to join the Azure blockchain offering, with the majority of those involved being....
Tech giant Microsoft has added five new services to its Azure blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution, including decentralized prediction market Augur and Ethereum startup Slock.it. Other new additions to its blockchain testbed, announced in October, include custom blockchain development platform Lisk; digital asset platform BitShares; and alternative blockchain Syscoin. BitPay, Eris Industries and Factom are among a number of previously announced partners. In a blog post, Microsoft director of technology strategy Marley Gray sought to position the company’s blockchain offerings as....
While Microsoft tested the waters with bitcoin at the tail end of 2014, the tech giant appears poised to be a far bigger player in the burgeoning market for solutions that harness its underlying blockchain technology. Since opening its Azure cloud computing platform to the ecosystem this October, Microsoft has added a steady stream of partners to its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution – a product styled as a kind of 'sandbox' where partners can interact with different technologies, from smart contracts to blockchain-based tax reporting services, in a low-risk environment. Far from....
Tech giant Microsoft has established a partnership with Blockchain identity startup Tierion to secure sensitive pieces of information on a public Blockchain. Daniel Buchner from the Microsoft Azure Identity team will be leading a project called decentralized identity initiative which features extensive collaboration with Tierion and its developers. Cooperatively, the Microsoft and Tierion development teams are looking to build a Blockchain-based platform wherein anyone can sign data, claims and agreements in an immutable and transparent ecosystem. Commercialization. Ultimately, Microsoft....