IBM
Founded back in 1911, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. Corporation’s scope of activities spreads from manufacturing and marketing of computer hardware, middleware and software, to delivery of hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
Following its strategy of continuous growth and expansion, IBM got actively involved in Blockchain and IoT solutions development.
Company’s major tech-based products include IBM Blockchain, which is a public cloud service for secure blockchain networks development; and IBM Watson IoT Platform – a foundational cloud offering for connection and control over IoT sensors, appliances, homes, and the whole industries.
Visa’s distributed ledger platform, B2B Connect is integrating open-source blockchain code from the Hyperledger Fabric to provide clients with a groundbreaking payment network.
Carrefour will use the IBM Food Trust blockchain platform to expand its product range internationally while tracking more than 12,000 operational stores across 33 countries.
The companies have joined hands to launch an initiative that will help blockchain-related businesses get wider exposure and easily find each other via a secure decentralized platform.
Hu-manity aims at establishing transparent data-sharing between individuals and corporations. Hu-manity’s global consent ledger gives users absolute control over individual data.
IBM’s cross-border payments solution will facilitate instant clearing and settlement of all transactions using Stellar’s blockchain network.
An Australian federal agency is going to launch a national blockchain that will let companies conduct transactions based on smart legal contracts.
The TradeLens platform will employ smart contract services for complex shipping solutions to further streamline the global supply chain.
A crypto startup Stronghold is launching a new stablecoin in partnership with IBM. The coin is pegged against the US dollar and is now available to institutional clients.
A group of European banks have conducted a series of cross-border financial trades via a jointly developed blockchain-powered platform.
The Insurwave platform supports more than half-million automated ledger transactions and will manage risks for more than a 1000 commercial vessels in the first year of its deployment.
