Blockchain has been nominated on the list of China’s words of the year for 2019, according to the freshly released “Top Ten Popular Words of the Year”. It has been an annual tradition since 2009 that Chinese magazine Yao Wen Jiao Zi (literally meaning “Biting Words”) releases ...
Within a week, two large-scale blockchain-related forums were held in Hainan island, China’s southmost province. Hainan is now seemed as the hot-spot of blockchain investment with no match. Hainan’s dedicated economic pilot zone has pledged to boost the role blockchain tech plays in the lo...
New developments seem to support the view that China’s vision to globalize its currency in a digital form is taking shape while an ecosystem builds around the Chinese agenda to make blockchain its present and its future, the new China Blockchain Report by Forkast has suggested. Blockcha...
China has filed over 12,900 blockchain-related patent applications as of October 2019, accounting for 53.6% of the world’s total (24,074), according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In terms of the blockchain patent number, China is ahead of developed...
On December 4, the first Chinese blockchain pilot in Hainan pilot free trade zone (FTZ) released the "on-chain Hainan" plan and the subsequent measures to speed up blockchain adoption. Meanwhile, the Hainan blockchain pilot area also officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement ...
OK Group, the operator of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, said it would set up a digital asset trading laboratory in Sanya, the southernmost city on Hainan Island, China, reported Xinhua News. The company announced at the opening ceremony of Hainan International Offshore And Entr...
OneConnect, a Chinese company that has been the blockchain arm of insurance company Ping An, filing for a $500 million U.S. IPO on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) the next Friday. The company priced its offering of 36 million shares of American Depository Share (ADS) at $...
In this interview with Dr. Hui (Hugo) Gong, the founder of the China-UK Blockchain Association talks about the opportunity presented to China to take the lead in the blockchain field globally and how the Asian giant grabbed it with both hands. His Association was established to s...
The Chinese branch of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has recently joined the Blockchain Services Network (BSN), an industry alliance initiated by the State Information Center (SIC) – a Chinese government policy-making think tank. In addition to top crypto exchange Huobi, the wor...
The American arrested and likely to be prosecuted for reportedly showing authorities in North Korea how to use cryptocurrencies to avoid U.S. sanctions and launder money traveled via China, sworn court papers have shown. According to the US Department of Justice, a criminal complain...
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