IT World

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Four years after IBM and Maersk first unveiled TradeLens , the companies have announced they will be withdrawing TradeLens offerings and will discontinue the blockchain-based supply chain platform. The platform will go offline by the end of the first quarter in 2023.

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IT World

APRIL 4, 2022

To that end, blockchain company Equideum Health and Nokia have announced plans build a SaaS-based marketplace where patient information is amassed for sale to researchers. The market for patient healthcare data is booming.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 14, 2022

Blockchain is becoming more widespread as the modern era progresses. Blockchain swoops in as a saint to provide visibility and transparency among corporations lacking trust and value while executing transactions. The post Amazon Managed Blockchain; What does it do? first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Table of Contents. Where Web 2.0

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IT World

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The impending shutdown of one of the largest digital shipping tracking ledgers is likely a sign that costly customized enterprise blockchain projects managed by consortiums are doomed — and have been for a long time. This] seems like the last chapter in the era of costly enterprise blockchain projects.”

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2018

And the Blockchain is here. Network effect businesses, those like AirBnB and Facebook, face a theoretical risk from blockchain startups. Blockchain technology incentivizes network participants. The SEC is actively investigating ways to provide main street with access to startups. I received a token for using a service.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

… The post SBC 22: Field Notes from Science of Blockchain 2022 appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2023

Blockchains are databases application developers use to build novel user experiences. Just as hundreds of different databases exist in web2, different blockchains have evolved in web3. In September, I published the State of Web3 in Data. I’ve been watching one of those charts very closely : slide 25 which tracked L2s & L1s.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The problem of scalability is one of the main reasons why blockchain technology is not yet widespread. Scalability refers to the ability of a blockchain network to handle an increasing number of transactions. So far, most blockchains are not capable of competing with Visa, MasterCard, or Paypal.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT.

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SaaS Metrics

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The post New Block on the Chain – What Is Blockchain? Others would argue that the internet was the catalyst of this change. The transfer of digital data has become instant and paperless yet recorded. first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Nimble - Sales

MAY 15, 2019

Blockchain is the single most disruptive technology in our lifetime. If you’re like most people, you probably associate blockchain with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. That’s a valid connection, but numerous other sectors could utilize blockchain’s capabilities to help meet their goals. Marketing is one of them.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 29, 2022

In January, L1s (blockchains) generated 78% of revenue across public web3 projects. As blockchains look to foster healthy ecosystems, they will need to build a portfolio of application developers across different categories. Exchanges clocked in second at 6.4%, then NFTs & marketplaces at 5.9%. L1s have fallen from 78% to 41%.

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SaaS Metrics

AUGUST 20, 2020

In order to understand how the recent growth of blockchain technology has affected it, it’s best to begin with a couple of definitions. There are some major changes taking place in the world of software as a service. Also called SaaS, this segment of the business universe has undergone massive transformations in the past decade.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 14, 2019

0/ One view in crypto is that a single blockchain (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) will someday emerge victorious and proceed to dominate all use cases. It’s more likely that many networks will emerge as winners in their own … The post Blockchain Architectures for Scaling Applications appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. I disagree.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of social systems… including blockchains. It’s the natural human tendency for how to organize decisions, and in distributed systems without centralized middlemen, it’s the only …

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 23, 2019

During this time, he saw first-hand that underlying the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of radical extremism, and other global conflicts … The post A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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IT World

AUGUST 12, 2019

Public tests of blockchain-based mobile voting are growing. Even as there's been an uptick in pilot projects, security experts warn that blockchain-based mobile voting technology is innately insecure and potentially a danger to democracy through "wholesale fraud" or "manipulation tactics."

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ProfitWell

MARCH 6, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Marcelo Furtado , Co-Founder at Convenia , asks us a brilliant SaaS marketing question: How does having "blockchain" or "crypto" in your marketing impact willingness to pay? There’s a ton of hype around blockchain in general, which is why we’re answering our question today. Click to enlarge.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 27, 2019

As quoted by Don & Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution (2016), “The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.” As blockchain is shared, it also offers transparency.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Blockchain powers the experience. At that moment, the point of maximum intent , you create a blockchain wallet to store your new avatar. I think it’s a project that deserves more visibility than it has received. Reddit’s Collectible Avatars launched in August 2022. Collectible Avatars allow users to buy profile pictures.

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IT World

APRIL 30, 2019

After nearly a year of testing, Amazon on Tuesday announced the general availability its Amazon Managed Blockchain , a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 19, 2022

But these networks couldn’t talk to each other in a standardized way - paralleling the limited interoperability of blockchains today. Web3 builders are debating their way through this era’s protocol wars, defining the networking stack to connect blockchains. Stanford operated a computer network.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2019

In a previous video , a16z crypto Deal Partner Ali Yahya laid out five open problems for building the blockchain computer. One of those problems is building a decentralized storage network. In this video, we double-click on the decentralized storage …

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The next frontier in computing, which will take shape this decade, is building apps on programmable blockchains. Programmable blockchains are interesting for the same reason that innovation on smartphones spiked after opening up development to third parties via app stores.

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IT World

MARCH 18, 2019

IBM today unveiled Blockchain World Wire , a real-time global payments network based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) for regulated financial firms. The blockchain-based network will offer a new way for near real-time cross-border payment exchange and international settlement. The settlements can be done in five to 10 seconds.)

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This team is responsible for developing Facebook’s blockchain (Diem) and the Move programming language, two fundamental projects within the ecosystem. In addition, they are developing a blazing fast NFT platform which aims to enable seamless movement of NFTs across blockchains.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When Facebook launches its cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it will need a public-facing blockchain network for consumers who purchase items using digital wallets and a private blockchain network for the banks backing the new digital currency. Calibra, Facebook's digital wallet, will store Libra, Facebook's digital currency.

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IT World

MAY 3, 2019

Microsoft today announced its first Azure-based, managed blockchain platform using JPM's Quorum enterprise-class distributed ledger technology. Since 2015, Microsoft's Azure cloud service has allowed users to install a number of blockchain platforms, including Enterprise Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and Quorum.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2022

Virtual wallets will form the backbone of the next-generation ads stack , replacing the cookie with a blockchain wallet. Blockchain infrastructure is beautiful - a marvel of collaboration across the internet. Blockchain infrastructure is beautiful - a marvel of collaboration across the internet.

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IT World

JANUARY 17, 2019

SAP has launched a supply chain tracking service based on blockchain that will enable drug wholesalers to authenticate pharmaceutical packaging returned from hospitals and pharmacies. Further reading: What is blockchain? Further reading: What is blockchain? The most disruptive tech in decades ].

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IT World

JUNE 3, 2019

Salesforce is now offering select customers blockchain as a permissioned, centrally controlled service, which in some ways runs counter to the basic premise of the technology: that it's an anonymous, distributed network with no central authority. Others control who can join and on which blockchain data can be shared.

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IT World

MARCH 6, 2019

The largest chunk of worldwide spending on new blockchain networks – nearly $2.9 The research firm also noted that blockchain implementations are moving quickly beyond the pilot and proof-of-concept phase to real-world production systems. Further reading: What is blockchain? Further reading: What is blockchain?

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 16, 2022

Obstacles exist: Blockchain transaction costs are real, but fees will fall over time. The incumbent marketing hegemons aren’t prepared for this new world with limited knowledge of blockchains and systems architected for cookies. Apps could encode user metadata as an NFT governed by a smart contract that enforces royalties.

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IT World

MAY 24, 2019

A blockchain industry alliance has released a guide and list of use cases for deploying the technology to enable, among other things, the purchase of fractions of real estate property as digital securities on an open marketplace.

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IT World

JUNE 14, 2019

Companies are still cautiously dipping their toes into the blockchain trough, hoping to discover where the distributed ledger technology can create efficiencies in their business processes. Based on its research of blockchain implementations, Gartner this week published a guide to the seven most common mistakes companies should avoid.

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