Daily Archives: 26/08/2020

Power Ledger Announces Launch of Blockchain Platform for Renewable Energy Trading

Australian company Power Ledger has announced the imminent launch of a blockchain platform for renewable energy trading in Thailand and Southeast Asia. The platform is based on joint developments with the Thai renewable energy firm BCPG. One of the earliest Power Ledger and BCPG projects was tested back in 2018, when the firms conducted a pilot green energy sale in the central Bangkok region. Power Ledger continued to work with BCPG and later was joined…

Boston Fed and MIT will study 30 blockchains to deploy the digital dollar.

Boston’s Federal Reserve Bank will study 30 blockchains for a digital dollar development initiative. The study is being conducted in collaboration with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. Earlier this month, the Boston Federal Reserve Bank said it is actively testing the digital dollar, a tokenized version of the US dollar, in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). The collaboration builds on previous research and aims to explore how the…