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Two Japanese firms have developed a blockchain-powered alcohol trading platform that they claim will allow alcohol-loving customers the opportunity to buy, sell, hold and haggle over barrel-loads of luxury liquor – just like trading crypto.

Carmaking giants BMW, Ford and Honda have teamed up with auto insurance providers and tech heavyweights such as IBM and Accenture on an international cross-industry, blockchain-powered vehicle history platform.

Global telecommunications companies are growing increasingly keen on blockchain technology – as Germany and Europe’s largest telecoms provider Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced it has teamed up with the financial industry heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz in a new deal involving the Celo blockchain network.

DCash, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) commissioned by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), has remained offline for more than a month as technical issues continue to impact the platform, triggering growing concern among its users.

Chinese companies are still topping the blockchain patents charts – despite Beijing’s recent crackdown on crypto and some of the nation’s biggest tech firms.

Seoul says that it will become the first local government in South Korea to launch a metaverse public service platform.

Upbit has become the first South Korean crypto exchange to officially apply for its operating license – with the nation’s financial regulator confident that “at least one or two” others will follow suit before the end of this month.

Play-to-earn games have become more than relevant for the blockchain industry, with the number of users increasing exponentially, according to a recent report released by the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) and dapp information provider DappRadar. They may be the key to reaching mass adoption, while outpacing decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

NEPZA, the Nigerian government agency in charge of export processing zones, announced on Saturday that it is in talks with cryptocurrency exchange Binance to...

China’s blockchain technology ambitions may be even greater than once thought – with a media outlet claiming to have seen evidence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s blockchain planning.