The Director of Regulatory Relations of Ripple, Ryan Zagone has expressed his opinion that blockchain and cryptocurrency will have a role in US technology independence. Zagone then explained, “There is a broad discussion in Washington around 5G being dominated by foreign firms and the U.S. being reliant on foreign technology and foreign expertise…With blockchain and crypto, I think there’s a recognition now that these will be part of our future infrastructure.”

The computer-hardware mammoth IBM has recently shared Five Blockchain Principles to follow which will guide its blockchain-related work. The five principles were listed in the report which IBM has confirmed to follow guidelines shared as an effort in accelerating the future of blockchain technology to the mainstream adoption which also use to ensure blockchain to have better future in the technology industry.

The credits go the UBIK, a Croatia’s self-regulating blockchain and organization in making the first formal blockchain-powered vote during UBIK’s yearly assembly possible. The assembly poll was held on previous April 24th which featured an election for the organization’s president and board, with the aim in trialling the effectiveness of blockchain technology for small elections to medium governing bodies.

Kaden has confirmed in an announcement that its Proof of Work public blockchain called Chainweb will be launching its mainnet soon on this coming October 30th, 2019. The Kadena Team explained, “After a successful launch of Chainweb Testnet v0 in March, we are making substantial updates to push towards special interest to our community, we will begin accepting applications and approve select external miners into our test network.”