Ethereum to Open Blockchain Research Center in Russia’s Silicon Valley
Ethereum blockchain platform is to open a Blockchain research center in Skolkovo (Russia’s counterpart of Silicon Valley), and partner with Acronis data management company, as reported by the Russian VC.ru. On Monday, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum platform, hosted the “Ethereum Russia 2016” conference in Skolkovo, which was also attended by the representatives of QIWI payment processor, AlmazCapital venture fund, IBM, Waves, and Acronis. The conference was dedicated to “the most recent and significant topics in the Blockchain industry”. Skolkovo Blockchain research center. After....
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Japanese technology conglomerate Hitachi is set to open a financial technology research laboratory in the US that will focus on blockchain applications. The research center will open next month in partnership with its technology innovation division based in Silicon Valley, California. Hitachi indicated that it plans to use the research center as a means to work on initiatives with its customer base. Hitachi operates in a number of industries including IT, consumer electronics and power generation. Hitachi said in a statement: “By establishing the Financial Innovation Laboratory in the....
Richard Waters, writing in Financial Times, is reporting that Silicon Valley's A-Listers seem to be fast climbing onto the Bitcoin bandwagon. More and more of Silicon Valley's venture capitalists have been queuing up to invest in Bitcoin start-ups. Yesterday, some of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters bought into the $20 Million funding round for Xapo. This list included none less than Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, Mike Volpi of Index Ventures attracting funding from the deep pockets of Max Levchin, Yuri Milner as well as Jerry Yang, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!. But this....
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin recently spoke on the possibilities of applying his decentralized smart contracts platform in Russia, the proposed cryptocurrency ban in the country, and talked with representatives from the country’s central bank at a fintech event held in Russia’s “Silicon Valley.” Ethereum Fuels Russian Interest. The event was held on....
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Japanese multinational and global conglomerate Hitachi has revealed its plans to establish a Financial Innovation Laboratory. The new installation will function as a Fintech research organization in Hitachi’s Global Center for Social Innovation at Silicon Valley, California. In a press release that made the announcement of a new fintech laboratory today, Hitachi revealed that the new organization will work together with the company’s Center of Social Innovation in North America (CSI-NA) specifically in areas of research and development of blockchain technology. Deeming distributed ledger....