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- 1. Blockchain Breaking News! -1 Top 3 Blockchain News stories! 22 maart 2018
- 2. SDE+ informatie 2 #1: Banks and the Energy sector working on Blockchain? https://www.nu.nl/economie/4994594/banken-en-energiesector-werken-samen-blockchainplatform.html https://tweakers.net/nieuws/131583/shell-abn-amro-en-ing-willen-blockchain-gebruiken-voor-energiehandel.html • A number of large banks, energy companies and trading houses will work together to develop a trading platform for raw materials based on blockchain technology. • ING, ABN Amro and Shell, among others, are participating in the initiative. BP, Gunvor, Société Générale and Statoil are also involved from other countries. • The partners want to digitize the processes involved in energy transactions and thus get rid of the traditional paper contracts and documentation. The new platform must also reduce administrative risks. • The platform will be managed as an independent company and is expected to be operational by the end of 2018.
- 3. SDE+ informatie 3 #1: Banks and the Energy sector working on Blockchain? https://www.nu.nl/economie/4994594/banken-en-energiesector-werken-samen-blockchainplatform.html https://tweakers.net/nieuws/131583/shell-abn-amro-en-ing-willen-blockchain-gebruiken-voor-energiehandel.html • According to these parties, the blockchain based trading platform will ensure the safe handling of transactions in real time, and the open source platform will be accessible to all users. • More and more sectors experiment with blockchain: for example, pension administration organizations APG and PGGM recently announced that they had successfully completed the first phase of an experiment with a block- board application for pension administration. In time, a fully developed prototype must lead to more flexibility and lower costs.
- 4. SDE+ informatie 4 #2: Bringing Renewable Energy to the World Using Blockchain Technology https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bringing-renewable-energy-world-using-blockchain-technology/ • Modern energy services are vital to human well-being and to a country’s economic development, yet according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), globally 1.2 billion people lack access to electricity. It’s thought that around 95 percent of these people are in either sub-Saharan Africa or developing Asia, with 80 percent in rural areas. • Ethereum-based platform ImpactPPA is attempting to turn on the lights using the power of the blockchain. • ImpactPPA aims to disrupt renewable energy to finance and accelerate global clean energy production by decentralizing and tokenizing energy generation through power purchase agreements (PPAs).
- 5. SDE+ informatie 5 #2: Bringing Renewable Energy to the World Using Blockchain Technology https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bringing-renewable-energy-world-using-blockchain-technology/ • The SmartPPA is the lynchpin of the new system and permits anyone, anywhere, to create a proposal for a project of any size. • According to Bates, the team has more than 200 megawatts in discussion for PPAs around the world that they expect to begin executing within the next six months. • Delivering this energy to smart meters that are connected to the blockchain allows for government, utility companies, businesses or individuals to decentralize the flow of power while using the best of the blockchain to ensure trust and security of the power generated and transmitted.
- 6. SDE+ informatie 6 #3:Insurers are performing tests with Blockchain since October! https://www.nu.nl/economie/4916282/verzekeraars-voeren-oktober-testen-met-blockchain.html • The system built by the consortium must ensure that insurance contracts can be tracked more easily and securely. In the long run, this can increase the productivity for all parties involved by 30 percent. Next year the system must go towards the production phase. • In addition to Aegon and Achmea, major insurers such as Allianz, Generali and reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Re are participating in the blockchain system. • An international group of insurers, including Achmea and Aegon, has taken a big step in applying the blockchain principle in the sector. • The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i) has a prototype and plans to test it from next month.
- 7. Bas Poelmann E: [email protected] T: 06 50838829