Blockchain Technology

Clinical research centre Mascot Spincontrol and blockchain firm Qila has collaborated to keep the integrity of medical research work intact with secure and tamper-proof data storage. Blockchain technology prevents the concentration of data in one location, making it difficult for hackers or other malicious agents to manipulate the stored informatio...

The UAE has launched the ‘Dubai Metaverse Strategy’ with the plan to onboard over a thousand Web3 firms onto its industrial ecosystem. This move, the UAE estimates, can see around 40,000 jobs in the next six years.

The Academy of Blockchain and AI Innovation (ABAII) was recently launched in Vietnam to educate tech students on the potential use cases of blockchain and AI in sectors like banking, data analysis, as well as digital economy and finance. Vietnam is ramping up efforts to join other Asian nations like India, Japan, China, and South Korea in exploring...

The student election voting system in IIT Madras is now working on blockchain networks rather than traditional centralised servers. In conversation with Gadgets 360, the institute said that its experiments with blockchain should not be seen as ‘betting on crypto,’ rather as a pilot into exploring the distributed ledger technology on a wider sca...

IIT Madras is taking efforts to list rules that could potentially oversee the metaverse sector. The committee will address the technical and ethical shortcomings to make the industrial uses of this digital technology safer and more advanced.

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has joined forces with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The aim is to conduct research around emerging technologies like blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Dilip Chenoy, the chief of the Bharat Web3 Association (BWA) has predicted better, in fact glowing days for India’s retail industry with metaverse technology now seeping-into the nation’s tech sector.

A report by Spherical Insights estimates the metaverse healthcare sector to boom to a nearly $500 billion market by the year of 2033. Built atop blockchain networks, metaverse ecosystems are fully functional virtual environments for people to work together and socialise in as digital avatars.

China is planning to conduct thorough research around the potential applications and possibilities of manufacturing and communicating using the metaverse. This shift in the country’s focus comes after its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled an ambitious three-year action plan for the industrial innovation and developme...

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for electronics and technology said that the IT ministry has established collaborative initiatives to identify and incubate promising Web3 startups in the country. The IT ministry has also initiated a programme titled ‘FutureSkills Prime’ -- that offers nine courses designed around exploring the...

The WEF has named South Korea’s Seoul, UAE’ Dubai, and the US’ Santa Monica as the leading cities of the international metaverse sector. Listing the benefits of cities exploring the metaverse, WEF said this virtual world ecosystem brings along cost savings related to the design, operation, and maintenance of urban infrastructure.

Bitcoin? It's a bit old hat, say a cohort of crypto investors who are betting on blockchain technology breathing new life into traditional assets.

Ant Group has launched a sub-brand called Zan to help blockchain developers bring out solutions for Web3. One of the first solution this brand brings along is a solution to help Web3 firms, managing or issuing real-world assets (RWAs), follow local regulatory requirements.

Global securities regulators set out on Thursday their first blueprint to make participants in "decentralised finance" (DeFi) accountable for their actions and safeguard market stability. DeFi platforms allow users to lend, borrow and save in digital assets, using the blockchain technology that underpins cryptoassets to bypass the traditional gatek...

The integration of technology in India is happening at a rapid pace in the fields of automation, big data, blockchain, distributed architecture, Internet of Things (IoT) among other sectors. On this Independence Day, we revisit the country's recent milestones in the fields of health tech, space tech, edtech, fintech, and other tech sectors.

Clinical research centre Mascot Spincontrol and blockchain firm Qila has collaborated to keep the integrity of medical research work intact with secure and tamper-proof data storage. Blockchain technology prevents the concentration of data in one location, making it difficult for hackers or other malicious agents to manipulate the stored informatio...

The UAE has launched the ‘Dubai Metaverse Strategy’ with the plan to onboard over a thousand Web3 firms onto its industrial ecosystem. This move, the UAE estimates, can see around 40,000 jobs in the next six years.

The Academy of Blockchain and AI Innovation (ABAII) was recently launched in Vietnam to educate tech students on the potential use cases of blockchain and AI in sectors like banking, data analysis, as well as digital economy and finance. Vietnam is ramping up efforts to join other Asian nations like India, Japan, China, and South Korea in exploring...

The student election voting system in IIT Madras is now working on blockchain networks rather than traditional centralised servers. In conversation with Gadgets 360, the institute said that its experiments with blockchain should not be seen as ‘betting on crypto,’ rather as a pilot into exploring the distributed ledger technology on a wider sca...

IIT Madras is taking efforts to list rules that could potentially oversee the metaverse sector. The committee will address the technical and ethical shortcomings to make the industrial uses of this digital technology safer and more advanced.

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has joined forces with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The aim is to conduct research around emerging technologies like blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Dilip Chenoy, the chief of the Bharat Web3 Association (BWA) has predicted better, in fact glowing days for India’s retail industry with metaverse technology now seeping-into the nation’s tech sector.

A report by Spherical Insights estimates the metaverse healthcare sector to boom to a nearly $500 billion market by the year of 2033. Built atop blockchain networks, metaverse ecosystems are fully functional virtual environments for people to work together and socialise in as digital avatars.

China is planning to conduct thorough research around the potential applications and possibilities of manufacturing and communicating using the metaverse. This shift in the country’s focus comes after its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled an ambitious three-year action plan for the industrial innovation and developme...

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for electronics and technology said that the IT ministry has established collaborative initiatives to identify and incubate promising Web3 startups in the country. The IT ministry has also initiated a programme titled ‘FutureSkills Prime’ -- that offers nine courses designed around exploring the...

The WEF has named South Korea’s Seoul, UAE’ Dubai, and the US’ Santa Monica as the leading cities of the international metaverse sector. Listing the benefits of cities exploring the metaverse, WEF said this virtual world ecosystem brings along cost savings related to the design, operation, and maintenance of urban infrastructure.

Bitcoin? It's a bit old hat, say a cohort of crypto investors who are betting on blockchain technology breathing new life into traditional assets.

Ant Group has launched a sub-brand called Zan to help blockchain developers bring out solutions for Web3. One of the first solution this brand brings along is a solution to help Web3 firms, managing or issuing real-world assets (RWAs), follow local regulatory requirements.

Global securities regulators set out on Thursday their first blueprint to make participants in "decentralised finance" (DeFi) accountable for their actions and safeguard market stability. DeFi platforms allow users to lend, borrow and save in digital assets, using the blockchain technology that underpins cryptoassets to bypass the traditional gatek...

The integration of technology in India is happening at a rapid pace in the fields of automation, big data, blockchain, distributed architecture, Internet of Things (IoT) among other sectors. On this Independence Day, we revisit the country's recent milestones in the fields of health tech, space tech, edtech, fintech, and other tech sectors.