Russian Govt Regulator Launches Blockchain Project with Sberbank

Russian Govt Regulator Launches Blockchain Project with Sberbank

Russia’s Sberbank and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) have announced a pilot project to enable document exchange on the blockchain, one of the key technologies behind Bitcoin. ‘Digital Ecosystem’ Project Taps Blockchain Tech. The “Digital Ecosystem” project aims to study distributed document storage. This can potentially make the process much....


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