Enterprise tech news and intelligence in the Philippines
Insurtech (insurance tech) Igloo is exploring the potential of providing blockchain-based insurance to farmers in the Philippines. This is to help address and prevent the losses experienced by the agricultural…
The emergence of online communities in Web3, such as gaming guilds, has been instrumental in driving Web3 adoption in the Philippines, creating opportunities for entrepreneurship and financial stability. However, guild…
Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a corporate-led NGO, has recently tapped the Philippine Digital Asset Exchange (PDAX) as its tech partner to enable its crypto donation drive through the…
Web3 is introducing a new way of doing business and it has transformed into the form of guilds. As guilds scale, they begin to have a more significant role in…
Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) announced that it will soon offer virtual asset exchange services through its mobile banking app. This will make the bank the first universal bank…
Homegrown digital assent exchange platform PDAX unveiled its “Donate” service feature, which aims to enable non-profit organizations, charities, and foundations to start accepting donations in the form of cryptocurrencies. For…
Enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions Ripple will be investing $100 million in carbon markets, which is meant to accelerate carbon removal activity. The funding will also help modernize carbon markets…
Tetrix Network brings onboard the new and improved crypto wallet Pitaka that allows users to store, manage, and exchange different cryptocurrencies and digital assets in one browser extension. Tetrix Network…
By Sandra Lee, Managing Director for Asia Pacific region at Kaspersky The term Metaverse is pretty hot right now. More and more brands are striving to conquer the Metaverse using…
Mobile financial services firm Coins.ph has integrated an Ethereum sidechain into its crypto platform. Launched February, users now experience faster transactions by using Ronin to deposit AXS and SLP into…
The spotlight on cryptocurrency has been gaining ground recently with industry leaders and traditional financial services institutions expressing interest. The latest research from Huobi Research Institute, a blockchain application research…
The new report by The Financial Times Focus and Mambu shows that banks must reposition themselves and embrace technology to avoid “extinction.” The results of the report illustrate the urgent…
ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company founded by Ethereum co-creator Joseph Lubin, announced that MetaMask now has more than 10 million monthly active users, with nearly 20% coming from the Philippines.…
Accenture (Philippines), a consulting and professional services company, presented its 10 partner universities and academic institution with P80 million in grants to enable them to accelerate technological innovations. Institutions that…
TZ APAC, one of Asia’s adoption entities supporting the Tezos ecosystem, has announced the deployment of new investments in the Asia Pacific region across business development and marketing. It will…
By Marissa Trew, Marketing Manager, TZ APAC The art world has traditionally been an immersive experience. Buyers and sellers of art congregate at galleries and at international art fairs; they…
TZ APAC, one of Asia’s adoption entities supporting the Tezos ecosystem, has partnered with Tezos India and Chainstack to bring the largest Tezos blockchain hackathon to Asia. Application for the…
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX), the first global non-profit plastic offset program, recently partnered with Microsoft to develop a blockchain-protected credit registry. The revamped credit registry will ensure the public and…
The financial sector is leading the way in the use of blockchain technology with the industry analyst International Data Corp. (IDC) expecting that global spending will increase by more than…
VMware Inc. (VMWare) announced recently the commercial availability of VMware Blockchain to provide a digital foundation that enterprises can trust to build business networks and deploy business-critical decentralized applications. With…
Galileo Platforms, a specialist blockchain technology platform for the insurance industry, has become the first company to have its advanced blockchain platform used by an insurer as its core policy…
The 2020 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey reveals that companies spent the equivalent of around $15 billion extra a week on technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is mainly due to…
The new update to the IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide sees that worldwide spending on blockchain solutions may reach $4.1 billion this year, up by 50% compared…
Global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, has found that technology giants IBM and Microsoft are the “clear leaders” in industrial blockchain-as-a-service (Baas) offerings. The industrial blockchain-as-a-service competitive assessment examined…
According to the April update of the IDC Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide Worldwide and Asia Pacific, blockchain spend will decline in 2020 as compared to the pre-COVID-19 forecast scenario. This…
Zebra Technologies, a company that offers enterprise-class technology products, services, analytics, and solutions, shares its insight on innovations that will disrupt industries this new year and a new decade. It…
eToroX, the blockchain subsidiary of global investment platform eToro, has added more fiat-backed stablecoins, gold commodity-backed stablecoin pairing, and a new crypto-asset to its wallet and trading platform. The new…
R3D Global recently unveiled its blockchain-based universal certification platform called DigiCerts at the 3rd National Technology Business Incubator (TBI) Summit, which is part of the Philippine Startup Week 2019. R3D…
Blockchain is forecast to generate $3.1 trillion in new business value worldwide by 2030, half of it by 2025 with applications designed for operational improvement, according to Gartner, Inc. However,…
Research and advisory company Gartner Inc. predicts that, by 2025, 20% of the top 10 global grocers by revenue will be using blockchain for food safety and traceability to create…
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