2020-06-03 17:30:39

In early 2019, the business standards company BSI partnered up exclusively with Trace Labs, the core developers of OriginTrail, to deliver blockchain-enabled solutions. With such solutions, the British Standards Institution (BSI) seeks to enhance its global assurance, certification, and supply chain services by ensuring the integrity of digital records. In collaboration with Trace Labs, BSI is now launching a series of blockchain-based solutions catering to both organizations and individuals aiming to build resilience in their supply chains, a need becoming even more apparent in light of the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Solutions described in the recently released BSI white paper — titled “Instruments of Trust: BSI’s Blockchain-Based Solutions” — enable a secure and trusted way of verifying the authenticity of claimed personal credentials as well as company and product certifications. BSI has also introduced the SCAN Trusted Factory Blockchain Program designed for US importers to ensure the authenticity of a factory’s certification and factory credentials.

2020-09-09 15:02:45

Polkadot facilitates an internet where independent blockchains can exchange information and transactions in a trustless way via the Polkadot relay chain. There have been a plethora of recent developments within the Polkadot ecosystem, including the successful transition of the Polkadot network towards the mainnet launch. This marks an important milestone as the key value propositions of the network are becoming fully available for the Polkadot community, which now extends to the Trace Alliance as well.

2020-09-02 13:53:55

With the support of the European Commissions’ Next Generation Internet DAPSI (NGI DAPSI), Trace Labs, core developer of OriginTrail, is now developing an open-source infrastructure to help organizations automate their GDPR compliance and have a transparent way of handling personal data. With its decentralized data provenance system utilizing the OriginTrail Decentralized Network (ODN), the Open Provenance Knowledge Graph (OpenPKG) is introducing an efficient approach to tackling data transparency and portability challenges and advancing governance and control over personal data for users. Following the launch of several solutions for the assurance and compliance sector, the British Standards Institution and Trace Labs are now looking to use OpenPKG to strengthen businesses’ information resilience.

2020-08-26 14:09:09

It was 8:01 a.m. on June 26th, 1974 when Clyde Dawson, head of research and development for Marsh Supermarket, purchased a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum from a cashier named Sharon Buchannan at Marsh Stores in Troy, Ohio and the checkout went “beep” for the first time. Dawson later explained that he chose this product in particular because nobody had been sure that a bar code could be printed on something as small as a pack of chewing gum. However, Wrigley had found a solution to the problem.