Natalie Gagliordi is a senior writer for Red Ventures based in Louisville, Kentucky, covering business technology for ZDNet.
Mastercard said it will begin testing the ability for banks and crypto companies to offer a card option for people wanting to spend digital currencies anywhere Mastercard is accepted.
The company is extending its crypto support to the Venmo platform, allowing users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency through the Venmo app.
On its website, Curv explains that its "secret sauce" is the use of multi-party computation (MPC) protocols that eliminate the use of private keys for crypto storage.
The distributed ledger technology, which aims to provide enterprises with an open-sourced, scalable trust infrastructure for decentralized apps, officially launched Wednesday.
The proof-of-concept blockchain network is in partnership with the US FDA and its efforts to modernize the pharmaceutical supply chain.
The companies are aiming to build a system that addresses counterfeit hard drives and helps ensure hard drive compliance and security.
The aim is to track food from farm to store in near real time using blockchain's distributed ledger system.
It's feverishly hyped and often misunderstood, but blockchain technology is on track to become a major source of disruption across media and entertainment.
Earn.com co-founder Balaji Srinivasan will join Coinbase as its first ever chief technology officer.