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In the Know: This Week’s Blockchain Round-Up (December 22, 2017)

The world of blockchain is changing every day. Check out our weekly round-up stay in-the-know on this evolving technology.

How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Commodity Markets

Blockchain could help secure the means of exchange of raw materials, as well as open up channels of trade among buyers and sellers that have previously been seen as credit risks.

Read more here, via Bloomberg


How Blockchain Technology Could Transform the Food Industry

Blockchain has the ability to change the food industry, by reading a QR code that would be able to track anything from an animal’s date of birth to the location of where the livestock was harvested.

Read more here, via The Conversation.


Blockchain’s 2018 Goal? Human Rights Over Financial Gains

It’s been an exciting and progressive year for blockchain. 2017 saw the rise of new tokens and funds, along with the largest increase in the global blockchain participant tool.

Here’s what needs to happen in 2018, via CoinDesk.