South African blockchain start-up Apollo Fintech has launched a National Payment Platform, a blockchain-powered national currency platform that enables a central bank to issue a sovereign, digital currency (stablecoin) for national adoption, which can be sent and received through mobile SMS and text messages.
Australian intellectual property rights issuer IP Australia has teamed up with Australia's National Rugby League (NRL) to run a pilot to enable NRL to tackle the issue of counterfeit merchandise in the market. IP Australia is the Australian Government agency that administers intellectual property (IP) rights and legislation.
Title and Escrow company Rainier Title has teamed up with blockchain start-up Ubitquity LLC to develop a blockchain-powered platform for creating tokenized property title as well as parallel records of conveyances. Ubitquity is the enterprise-ready blockchain-secured platform for real estate and title recordkeeping. Rainier Title is a title company serving the Washington State.
Aerospace parts maker Honeywell International is using a blockchain-powered system to help its customers to speedily and efficiently search and retrieve scattered data of aircraft parts and service through a simple search engine user interface. The system will help streamline the cumbersome documentation processes and storage mechanisms of aircraft parts and services.
Coke One North America or CONA, has teamed up with blockchain app builder Provide Technologies and blockchain solutions developer Unibright to establish a blockchain-powered Coca-Cola Bottling Harbor, which will use the Baseline Protocol to streamline Coca-Cola's bottling supply-chain network as well as boost transparency and efficiency.