Mario Cotillard

Stampery allows individuals and companies to certify any type of data generating accurate, reliable and immutable proofs of existence, integrity and ownership.

A Latin American fintech conference will bring hundreds of the region’s bankers and technologists together, for an event featuring a blockchain-based remittance hackathon.

Pivit’s latest funding round has been issued utilizing distributed ledger technology, marking the first successful securities issuance facilitated by Digital Asset.

[Abra](http://www.goabra.com) is making cash mobile, enabling anyone to store digital cash, valued in any currency, directly on a phone with no bank required. The company’s “highly oversubscribed” series A round brings the investment total to US$14m.

A startup based in Germany is giving away digital photographs created by an American visual artist, which are cryptographically signed and verified on the blockchain.

A former executive of the leading online and mobile payments firm Paypal, and credit card network Visa, has joined the company behind the Ripple protocol, a technology currently being explored by banks to upend their backend systems.

A Ghanan remittance startup has pivoted to remove digital currency bitcoin from its service and instead offer expat Ghanaians the ability to buy gifts and services for their loved ones back home.

A new app hopes to bring digital currency’s cheap and fast payments to the growing market of social commerce, products and services sold through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

The partners aim to create a secondary market for startup equity, using colored coins technology, which allows nearly any asset to be represented and transferred on a blockchain.

The release of Eris 0.10 marks a major change for the firm’s smart contract technology, and the business direction for the company.