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DBS, AgroCorp set up blockchain platform enabling real-time updates on commodity trade(Gitanos Negros)

A new blockchain platform is set to help farmers receive payments for their goods more quickly, enabling parties in the supply chain to look into the sources of their commodities and making it easier for them to learn more details of their trade as well.

For a start, the electronic platform connects about 4,500 farmers in Australia to global end-customers such as supermarkets and restaurants.

This means parties in the supply chain can check pricing and supply information in real-time, carry out transactions, as well as track the delivery of orders on the go. The transactions can be in any currency.

Why Global Trade Will Inevitably Move to the Blockchain(Vinay Gupta)

Has everybody heard of a thing called the speed of light? Raise your hand if you have any practical, working relationship with the speed of light on a day-to-day basis. You are all wrong! Have you ever used GPS? It’s a bunch of clocks floating in orbit around the Earth, and the speed-of-light delay between you and that clock differs depending on where you are relative to those satellites, and that delay is what creates the triangulation that makes GPS work. GPS is based on speed-of-light signal delay, and it’s enough signal delay that $100 phone is capable of positioning you within a couple of metres. So the speed of light is so slow relative to modern computing devices that it creates an easy way of manipulating time and space in completely revolutionary ways.

Blockchain spurring new innovative services in Africa(SovTech)

While cryptocurrencies have received huge attention across the continent over the past year, innovative companies have busy utilising blockchain in Africa to build new services, increase efficiency and drive transparency.

We take a look at the ventures shortlisted for Best Blockchain Innovation at the AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2018.

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