Gates Foundation Grant Boosts Factom's Blockchain-Based Medical Record Development
Factom, an Austin-based blockchain technology company offering data management and record keeping support for business, announced it is the recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. The intent of this funding is to address one of the world’s most urgent problems — the maintenance of medical records that are secure, readily accessible and....
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Blockchain-based company Factom has announced it will soon secure medical records on its platform. The firm received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide immutable and easily accessible records. Gates Foundation Grant to Produce Distributed Medical Database. Factom, the blockchain as-a-service (BaaS) technology company, has....
In recent news, the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has issued a grant to Factom Inc., to work on blockchain based IoT security solution. When a technology grows too big, those who fail to adapt will be left behind, no matter which branch of the government they belong to. Having understood the importance of digital currency technology, the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate has awarded a grant of $199,000 to Factom Inc. The Department of Homeland Security’s recent press release states that the organization has issued the....
Last week The Factom Foundation released its latest project development news update. Factom is this year's most awaited project in the cryptocurrency space. The concept behind Factom is a very innovative one since it enables company's to use the technology without ever owning cryptocurrency. Factom is a distributed, decentralized protocol running on top of Bitcoin. The software is open source, and anyone is free to use it for any purpose. The Factom network gives developers the tools to build a new generation of applications that use blockchain technology. Factom uses a data layer on top....
Last month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded bitcoin startup Bitsoko $100,000 to help troubleshoot Africa's now-ubiquitous mobile money systems. The news, which followed a long application process beginning last September, came as a surprise to the team of six, not least because Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about the future of the payment technology in the developing world. "They [the foundation] had not worked with any other bitcoin startups to our knowledge, so we were really not too sure if they would want to come on and us be their first," Daniel Bloch, Bitsoko's....
Factom has received $1.1m in new funding as part of an equity crowdsale hosted by crowdfunding service BnkToTheFuture. Billed as a data and record keeping layer for bitcoin, Factom had offered 7.8% equity toward a $700,000 minimum investment goal to be reached by 9:39am GMT today. The project ultimately exceeded this goal, drawing 323 investors; each providing an average contribution of roughly $3,400. Factom Foundation chairman David Johnston credited the positive perception of the company as a key factor in the raise, telling CoinDesk: "The community has been very supportive of Factom....