TCS and Yale University Develop Secure, Private Off-Grid Networking Platform Using Blockchain

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, and Yale University, jointly announced the launch of a new framework that could help ensure privacy and trust in peer-to-peer digital networks. This would be a critical element in enhancing blockchain solutions for greater adoption by consumers.
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One Year After Open Access, Hedera Now Processes 1.5 Million Transactions Per Day, Surpassing Ethereum

Hedera saw dozens of applications go live with the network becoming openly accessible to the public a year ago, with new applications being launched regularly over the last twelve months. These enterprise-grade applications are delivering significant value in areas such as advertising tracking, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, supply chain management, data privacy, decentralized finance (DeFi) and other financial services, retail, media, and technology. These innovative applications utilizing Hedera's primary network services (Hedera Consensus Service and the cryptocurrency service) have driven meaningful transaction volume at an unprecedented rate for a public distributed network. 
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Lattice Exchange Announces Early Backers for a Scalable Decentralized Finance Platform for Digital Currency Built On a New Scalable Blockchain Technology

Lattice is the evolution of existing DeFi solutions by providing the best price and profitability for protocol users. It enables smart routing for trades and the ability to aggregate liquidity pools and incorporate multiple Automated Market Making (AMM) algorithms on Constellation's scalable Hypergraph Network. Leveraging Constellation's Network, trading transactions will be cheaper, more accurate, and faster than other DeFi solutions built on alternative blockchain infrastructures.
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Introducing Twetch Chat - Encrypted Messages using Bitcoin

While its main mission is to free your data and help you own and profit from it, Twetch is also committed to integrating with as many services as possible and providing a great UX that uniquely displays the possibilities of what can be done on Bitcoin. This comes with its own set of unique challenges, especially when it comes to handling sensitive information in a way that is compatible with complete data mobility, while integrating with existing wallet providers, each having their own unique capability set. Until recently, it was not possible to provide such a service without becoming a wallet company itself. 
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Algorand and Archax partner for new wave of sophisticated financial products

Archax today announced that it has partnered with leading blockchain provider Algorand to work on new innovative smart financial products that will trade on its FCA regulated exchange. Archax – which last week became the first firm to receive FCA authorisation as a digital securities exchange, VASP, brokerage and custodian – is looking to create a range of bespoke regulated financial products to sit alongside its pipeline of more regular digital security issuances, such as equity, fund and debt instruments.
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planetRE enhances Trusted Transaction Management by embedding Video Conference Recordings under Blockchain

planetRE, the nation's leading enterprise cloud vendor for online real estate announced today of an addition of video collaboration and recording feature using Zoom®, Citrix® and others to its current flagship platform Transact. Video conferencing is run today as a separate tool, decoupled from digital signing or any other online real estate business process. Legacy E-signs are further reduced to mechanized signing on behalf of consumers especially on mobile, with many standing the risk of not fully understanding what they are signing. With loss of face time due to pandemic, consumers more than ever need a collaborative environment with a trusted agent advisor on contracts, compliance and other matters.
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Huobi DeFi Labs Launches Global Alliance to Expand the Decentralized Financial Ecosystem with Cross-Border Collaboration

Huobi DeFi Labs, Huobi Group's newly-formed decentralized finance (DeFi) division, today announced the launch of the Global DeFi Alliance, an international consortium of centralized and decentralized financial service providers and platforms. The alliance was initially joined by Huobi in conjunction with the Maker Foundation, Compound, NEST communities, and dYdX to jointly advance DeFi research and development, promote best practices, and facilitate cross-border collaboration and ecosystem development between East and West.
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Akemona Receives Regulatory Approval as the First Smart Contract-Based Funding Portal on Blockchain

Akemona, a pioneer in digital securities, announced today that it has registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is now a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) under section 3(h) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the corresponding SEC rules, popularly known as Regulation Crowdfunding. Akemona is the first smart contract-based funding portal to achieve this distinction. Akemona allows qualified businesses to raise funds by offering and selling zero-coupon bonds as digital securities on its platform.
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