Last year, we saw quite a bit of media attention paid to blockchain startups. They raised money from the public, then most of them vanished without a trace (or product). Ethics and legality of thei… ...

Businesses accepting payments in stablecoins on a public blockchain are making vast amounts of data available to their ...

Instead of trusting one authority, blockchain uses a network of computers — called nodes — that all agree on what’s true. If at least 51% of these nodes agree, a new block is added to the chain.

Gratifyingly, some 80 percent of respondents said that they're not using blockchain at all. 12.7 percent said that they were using blockchain for something other than digital currency, and the ...

A recent report by Ripple, CB Insights and UK CBT says traditional banks took part in 345 blockchain-related deals between 2020 and 2024, with a focus on payments, tokenization and custody. The ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The blockchain revolution began with bold ideals: transparency, decentralization and ...

Smart contracts are self-executing programs on the blockchain that automatically carry out transactions when specific conditions are met, eliminating the need for a central authority or ...