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In the Know: This Week’s Blockchain Round-Up (October 27, 2017)

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

Three Ways Cities Will Build Their Future On Blockchain

Blockchain could change organizations, transactions and industries as well as the entire economy. One day, a future city has the possibility to run on blockchain technology.

Read more about this interesting idea here, via Forbes.


One Word: Blockchain

Instead of keeping all relevant data in one spot, blockchain uses distributed ledger technology where transactions are placed together into a block of information. This decentralized system is more secure, due to there being both a public and private key to access the information.

Read more here, via The Business Journals.


How This Startup Plans to Use Blockchain to Revolutionize the Coffee Supply Chain

This startup uses a mix of robots, mobile apps and blockchains to renovate the tracking process from crop to cup, ushering blockchain into what could be a crypto-coffee era soon.

Read more here, via Fortune.


The Blockchain of Food

The start-up, ripe.io, a leader in the creation of a blockchain solution for our food system, offers an analysis on how to initiate and run a “blockchain of food” in the food supply chain.

Read more here, via Forbes.