BlockApps CEO Likens The Block Chain 'Sandbox' To Oracle's Database Role

BlockApps CEO Likens The Block Chain 'Sandbox' To Oracle's Database Role

BlockApps, a Microsoft affiliate designed to provide an enterprise block chain toolkit to help businesses develop new functionalities, brings to mind the role that Oracle plays in the future of decentralized databases, according to Victor Wong, BlockApps CEO. In an interview with International Business Times, Wong cited Oracle's role as a database provider as a parallel to BlockApp's role providing tools such as smart contracts for businesses to use to create new functionalities. Microsoft Enters The Block Chain Arena. Microsoft partnered with an Ethereum-based startup, ConsenSys, to....


Related News

Microsoft Will Offer Ethereum-Blockchain Tools to Azure Users

From firmly stamping its presence as one of the first big corporations to pay attention to the bitcoin and block chain arena, Microsoft has now struck a partnership with an Ethereum-based startup to deliver blockchain as an enterprise solution for clients of the software giant's cloud-based Azure service. Microsoft has announced a partnership with ConsenSys, an Ethereum-coder collective from Brooklyn that will allow enterprise users on Azure to gain access to Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (E BaaS). BlockApps Strato, a toolkit used for developing Ethereum-based applications will be among....

BlockApps Expands Ethereum's Presence in China; Announces New Funding and Key Partnerships

Ethereum is gaining ground in China as innovators have announced key developments and partnerships during International Blockchain Week in Shanghai. BlockApps, an enterprise blockchain platform developer specializing in Ethereum technology, has unveiled today a pre-Series A funding round led by Fenbushi Capital, with participation from Black Pine Capital and its affiliate Jen Advisors, the Novogratz Family Office, Radiant Venture Capital and Ventris Capital. The new capital will be used to fuel BlockApps's expansion into China and address the growing demand for its platform around the....

BlockApps Blockchain as a Service Enters China

Last year Microsoft, ConsenSys, and BlockApps partnered together to offer the public a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS). Now BlockApps CEO Victor Wong has announced the BaaS protocol is now available for consumers based in China. BlockApps Introduces China’s Blockchain as a Service. BlockApps Strato is a full-stack enterprise technology platform that....

Oracle wants to bring blockchain to the masses through a crypto-secure data o...

Could Oracle’s crypto-secure data offering be the new way enterprises leverage blockchain moving forward? While blockchain is known for bringing trust and transparency to multi-party workflows, it can also ensure the immutability of business-critical data. Realizing this potential, technology giant Oracle has announced a crypto-secure data management offering that will be provided as a free feature for Oracle converged database users. Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle, told Cointelegraph that it’s become apparent that customers....

Block Parsers: How to Read the Bitcoin Block Chain

A Block Parser reads the Bitcoin block chain. There is no encryption of the data stored in the block chain. Bitcoin is a pseudonymous system. Meaning, ECDSA key pairs are used to abstract the identity of users. However, the binary data in the block chain can be read. The block chain is a transaction database. Every full node participating in the Bitcoin network has the same copy. The Bitcoin protocol dictates its structure and is the means through which each node maintains a duplicate copy. Overall, the block chain is just a data structure for storing blocks. The block chain stores blocks....