Blockchain April 13, 2021

Blockchain and letters of guarantee

5 min read - Paper-intensive financial instruments, especially those that require back-and-forth negotiations between parties, are ripe for digitization and blockchain. Add in the potential for fraud with paper processes, and the rationale for blockchain is even greater. The bank guarantee, or letter of…

Cloud October 16, 2020

Seven reasons why Hyperledger Fabric users should use IBM Blockchain Platform

4 min read - IBM Blockchain Platform is the IBM commercial deployment of The Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Fabric. This means our clients get the support, tools and services they need to successfully develop, deploy, operate and govern production grade blockchain solutions even…

Cloud May 13, 2020

Blockchain in a nutshell: Building enterprise solutions

4 min read - In the last few years, many large enterprises have been evaluating permissioned blockchain technologies by conducting limited proof of technologies (PoT) and some of them have gone on to production rollouts of minimum viable products (MVPs). These implementations have been…

Blockchain January 31, 2020

Bonds of Trust: Blockchain and disaster relief

4 min read - On Aug. 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport, Texas, as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of more than 130 mph. As Harvey tracked up the Texas and Louisiana coastline over the next four days, it…

Business transformation December 2, 2019

Collaboration: Key to the first multicloud blockchain deployment

5 min read - Individual data points are like fuel molecules waiting in pipelines and tanks to heat our homes or cook our food. Massive amounts of them sit inside supply chains and transactions, just needing a spark to unleash their transformative power. Vertrax…