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Unilever, O2 and Sky are among the latest big firms to sign on to Jicwebs’ blockchain pilot program designed to improve trust and transparency in digital advertising.The news was revealed in a Nov. 12 report from United Kingdom-based industry magazine Campaign.Industry involvementJicwebs — an acronym for the U.K. digital ad trading standards body, the Joint…

The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) is looking to find Bitcoin Mining Engineers for a “new business opportunity.” The proposal is coming from the team behind Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS), the crypto trading arm of the financial giant.The recruit will support Fidelity’s mining operations, likely in reference to its partnership with Blockstream. The…

Big Four auditing firm KPMG has identified the top four skills needed for a blockchain-related career, in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on May 16.KPMG suggests that an increasing number of companies will investigate blockchain technology this year. “Blockchain projects will not succeed or scale without a multifaceted team that goes beyond technologists,” the…

Equilibrium is not quite ditching EOS, but Polkadot will be its new home. An EOS-based decentralized finance project, Equilibrium, has announced its plans to develop a new interoperable protocol on the Polkadot (DOT) blockchain.The project is set to develop an independent parachain connected with Polkadot, featuring an independent utility token called EQ. It acts both…

Nonprofit organization The Zcash Foundation has partnered with blockchain company Parity Technologies to release a new, open source software client for the cryptocurrency Zcash, according to a press release on June 17.The new software client, Zebra, purportedly exists to provide redundancy in the case of its first client — Zcashd — failing. Zcash hopes this…

Bitcoin (BTC) led major cryptocurrencies on a fresh downward spiral July 1 after markets halted support above $12,000.Market visualization courtesy of Coin360Data from Coin360 shows bitcoin has lost its grip on the $11,000 mark as of press time, trading around $10,950 having gone as low as $10,680.Conditions remain volatile this week, with last week’s peak…

The platform stated it would offer “several original artworks” from Justin Roiland as part of his NFT collection. 2020 Total views 11 Total shares The Winklevoss-owned Nifty Gateway has announced the auction of a crypto art collection from the voice actor and co-creator behind Adult Swim's cult animation series Rick and Morty.According to a tweet…

Power Ledger's most recent development is a renewable energy certificate marketplace for SE Asia. Blockchain-enabled approaches to advancing the transition to renewable energy sources are making inroads in new regions.On Aug. 25, Australian blockchain firm Power Ledger announced its forthcoming launch of a marketplace for trading renewable energy certificates (RECs) across Thailand and the Southeast…