Deloitte Opens Ethereum Identity Platform to Blockchain Developers
"Papers, please" is a phrase with the power to send shivers through the spines of immigrants and travelers the world over. The ability to prove who one is has a long history of being abused by authoritarian governments and companies looking to generate revenue. But with the advent of distributed ledger technologies, that power is on the precipice of being offerred to the people by private companies for the first time. One of a rising number of those firms is "Big Four" accounting services provider, Deloitte, which later today is expected to publicly announce plans to....
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Services giant Deloitte, one of the so-called ‘Big Four” accounting firms in the world has officially opened a new blockchain lab in Dublin, established to cater the clients in Europe and the Middle East. Announced yesterday, the new EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa) blockchain lab is based in Dublin’s “Silicon Docks” district, a neighborhood that is home to a number of technology and Fintech startups as well as industry giants like Google and Facebook. The firm’s existing blockchain team of 25 developers and designers based at Deloitte Ireland HQ in Dublin will move to the new....
Deloitte has officially opened its Dublin-based blockchain lab. Announced in May, the EMEA Financial Services Blockchain Lab is based in Dublin’s so-called "Silicon Docks" neighborhood, a hub for startups and companies in Ireland that has been attracting increased interest in the wake of the UK's exit from the European Union. Deloitte's existing blockchain development team in Ireland – numbering some 25 developers – will relocate from Deloitte Ireland's headquarters to the new offices. The firm plans to grow the size of its development team to as much as 50 over the course of....
A universally compatible Blockchain-based smart identity project by Deloitte has the potential to impact every aspect of our lives. In an era where we are increasingly using mobile and electronic devices to move data around, identity management is still stuck in the era of paper. Crossing borders, being able to drive, getting benefits from the state, all require some form of paper or plastic based identification. Different public and private organizations routinely request identity information from people and companies and often this information has to be given repeatedly even in one day.....
Blockchain app development startup BlockCypher has expanded its platform to include support for Ethereum, a move the company says will see professional services firm Deloitte among its first users. BlockCypher CEO and co-founder Catheryne Nicholson says the addition of Ethereum was in response to an increased demand from more than half of the startup's client base, which also counts remittance app startup Abra among those using the new toolset. Speaking with CoinDesk at the Exponential Finance Conference in New York, Nicholson estimated that more than half the company’s developers have....
One among the "Big Four" professional consulting firms in the world, Deloitte has jumped into the Blockchain bandwagon. Latest developments in the company includes creation of Deloitte Cryptocurrency Community with over 100 people and the launch of Rubix Software platform that can be used to build applications over Blockchain. Deloitte, like many other financial and professional services companies has started exploring the various potential uses of Blockchain technology for themselves as well as their clients. According to Deloitte, the company has been involved in Blockchain research for....