Nasdaq Blockchain

IBM, the 109-year-old technology giant popularly known as Big Blue, has been at the forefront of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), or simply blockchain technology.

Emerging technologies continue to drive the evolution of the capital markets, and none more so than the cloud, machine learning and blockchain. These three technologies will be critical to defining the future success of the capital markets, according to Nasdaq President and CEO A

Emerging technologies continue to drive the evolution of the capital markets, and none more so than the cloud, machine learning and blockchain. These three technologies will be critical to defining the future success of the capital markets, according to Nasdaq President and CEO A

Blockchain and the Future of the Maritime Industry

When COVID-19 took full effect in March, touring and concerts, which contribute billions of dollars to the music industry annually, were immediately canceled, leaving tens of thousands of artists financially scrambling to make ends meet.

At this year’s virtual Technology of the Future (ToF) conference, Johan Toll, Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq, described how these new marketplaces are being created and the emerging market practices that are driving the rapid development.

At this year’s virtual Technology of the Future (ToF) conference, Johan Toll, Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq, described how these new marketplaces are being created and the emerging market practices that are driving the rapid development.

At this year’s virtual Technology of the Future (ToF) conference, Johan Toll, Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq, described how these new marketplaces are being created and the emerging market practices that are driving the rapid development.

Twitter co-founder and CEO and longtime Bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey has added to his praise of the cryptocurrency and its underlying blockchain, saying it is the future of security and other protocols on the social media platform in wake of recent hacks.

The impact of climate change will go well beyond the physical world, and is set to have significant knock-on effects to the global economy. By 2050, experts estimate, climate change will cost the world economy $7.9 trillion.

Look around your room. Chances are that everything has been in a container, on a plane, or inside a truck at some point. The miracle of international trade is a complex beast, a series of arteries feeding goods to each corner of the globe. And most of us know nothing about it.

Shipping and Logistics in a COVID World

The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is facing a reckoning. Although most pharmaceutical companies have been spared the brunt of the hit suffered by many companies in the wake of Covid-19, back-office inefficiencies have been lurking under the surface for years.

There is a massive evolution underway in the automotive industry.

Blockchain technology is now over a decade old. 

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has gone viral, but it’s not a new phenomenon.

Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs), a wide-reaching application of blockchain technology, has seen its first incorporation onto the main Bitcoin blockchain, opening the gateway for Bitcoin users to access this technology without relying on any other chains or third-party applications.

What a year it has been, and one that will certainly find its way into the history books.

Amid uncertainty over the volume of mail-in ballots for the 2020 Presidential election and its ability to process them, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has filed a patent application for a new method of securing them that is based on distributed ledger technology.

A division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture claimed this month that it envisions distributed ledger technology becoming integral to the functioning of complex agricultural supply chains in the future.