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Acquisitions and Fundings to Strongly Impact Blockchain Supply Chain Business Activities

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Blockchain Supply Chain Business Activities

The use of blockchain in the supply chain holds a key potential for improving the transparency of the supply chain and reducing administrative expenditure. Moreover, the massive demand for blockchain in the supply chain can be attributed to its ability in increasing traceability of material supply chain, authentication, and reduce losses incurred due to counterfeit items. Furthermore, blockchain enhances visibility and compliance of supply chain activities and improves the firm’s position as a leader in manufacturing activities. Earlier, blockchain technology was used for carrying out bitcoin transactions as it improved security and facilitated instant transmissions through the internet. In recent times, blockchain has played a major role in the supply chain industry with many players in the industry using the new technology to expand the reach of their supply chain activities across the globe. Integrating blockchain with IoT is projected to reduce supply chain costs, thereby increasing the penetration of blockchain technology in supply chain activities. According to the Allied Market Research report, the global blockchain supply chain market is anticipated to accrue earnings worth $9,852.91 million by 2025. 

Moreover, blockchain has added value to the supply chain space by replacing slow and time-consuming manual processes with automated ones. It has facilitated transparent and end-to-end tracking in the supply chain, thereby reducing frauds for highly valued products such as pharmaceutical medicines and diamonds. Blockchain technology has aided firms in digitizing physical goods and creating decentralized records of all business transactions related to the sale of goods. This has enabled firms in tracking supply chain activities, ranging from production to delivery of goods to end-user. Additionally, the immense use of blockchain technology in the transportation and logistics industry has brought transparency into business dealings, thereby encouraging industry players in expanding their business. Let us discuss some of the key ongoing trends observed across the global blockchain supply chain market.

Industry players are entering strategic partnerships for launching new technologies to enhance process efficiency. On August 9, 2018, Maersk and IBM Corporation declared the creation of TradeLens. It has been jointly created by Maersk and IBM Corporation for applying blockchain to the global supply chain. Reportedly, TradeLens, a result of the partnership between Maersk and IBM, is a blockchain-based shipping solution launched for promoting secured global trading activities. The strategic move is aimed at bringing together various vendors, increasing information sharing and transparency, and promoting innovation in business. 

Market players are signing contracts with a view of promoting blockchain applications in the supply chain, thereby improving the supply chain and increasing customer satisfaction through timely delivery of goods or services to customers. On June 16, 2022, SIMBA Chain, a blockchain startup firm offering cloud-based blockchain-as-a-service tools for end-users to implement decentralized apps for blockchain, announced that it signed a Small Business Innovation Research contract with the United States Air Force. The move is aimed at tokenizing the United States Air Force (USAF) supply chain budget so that it can keep track of the mobility of funds between suppliers and departments along with monitoring potential supply risks. 

Securing funding is one of the key trends witnessed in the global blockchain supply chain market as market players are seeking novel ways for expanding their business. On May 31, 2022, Vendia, a blockchain-based tool enabling businesses to share data across clouds, apps, and platforms, declared that it raised nearly $30 million through a Series B funding round led by Sorenson Capital, NewView Capital, Aspenwood Ventures, BMW Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, and Canvas Ventures. The strategic move of the firm is aimed at entering new business verticals and exploring new frontiers for business expansion. Furthermore, the funding will support new product launches of the company. 

The acquisition strategy adopted by market players has played a pivotal role in influencing the growth of their business and increasing their consumer base. The strategy is also executed by market players to reinforce and improve the product or service offerings of the firm. In February 2022, Vista Equity Partners, a global investment firm focusing on enterprise software and technology-enabled business, and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliot Investment Management L.P., acquired Citrix, a U.S. cloud services provider, for $16.5 billion. Reportedly, Vista and Evergreen will merge Citrix and TIBCO Software, a firm owned by Vista Equity Partners. The strategic move is aimed at expanding the customer base through a broad range of service offerings. Moreover, the acquisition will help Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital improve their online services, which are driven by accelerated digital transformation.  

Industry players are deploying new tools for expanding their business reach and spurring their earnings. In May 2022, De Beers Group, a U.K.-based firm specializing in diamond mining, diamond manufacturing, and diamond trading, installed TracrTM, a distributed diamond blockchain platform, for end-to-end diamond tracing from diamond mining field to point of sale. The initiative is predicted to help De Beers Group reinforce its market position, improve customer engagement, and attract new customers while retaining existing customers. Such strategic initiatives will help increase the application of blockchain not only in supply chain activities but across diverse industries. The key business strategies adopted by market players will enhance the growth prospects of the blockchain supply chain market and contribute significantly toward market profitability within the next few years.  

Dhananjay Punekar is a writer, avid reader & book lover, and interested in watching sports. He holds post-graduate degree in management and is working as a Sr. Specialist Content Writer at Allied Market Research. He can be reached at dhananjay.punekar@alliedanalytics.com

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Trustformer Collaborates with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to Elevate AML Efforts in Crypto

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Trustformer, the esteemed subsidiary of global blockchain solutions provider ChainUp, a frontrunner in global crypto asset security and compliance solutions, has embarked on a collaborative venture with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to harness AI in the realm of anti-money laundering (AML). This initiative, bolstered by the support and funding from the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), underscores Trustformer’s commitment to utilizing cutting-edge AI algorithms and AML methodologies to offer data and computational expertise to both NTU and the CSA.

Trustformer Collaborates with NTU to Elevate AML Efforts in Crypto

Amidst the rapid evolution of digital finance and the cryptocurrency market, safeguarding against risks like money laundering and terrorist financing is paramount. With Trustformer’s robust crypto risk management and compliance solutions, Singapore government is poised to proactively monitor and mitigate suspicious crypto transactions, enhancing the overall safety and integrity of the digital asset sphere. Trustformer’s compliance technology solution aids regulators and researchers in scrutinizing suspicious stablecoin and cryptocurrency transactions, setting the benchmark for efficient and intelligent crypto financial regulation. The firm’s ongoing innovations in AML, crime investigation, ransomware, and suspicious transaction analytics further consolidate its position as a leader in applying AI to Singapore’s crypto regulatory landscape.

As an innovator in global regulatory tech, Trustformer’s Know Your Transaction (KYT) platform offers users a comprehensive suite for crypto transaction risk monitoring. The KYT solution enables risk warnings before transactions, risk scans of target addresses, and post-transaction analysis. This empowers users to proactively detect potential vulnerabilities and ensures compliance with global financial regulations. Furthermore, it aids regulatory bodies in effectively pinpointing risks associated with money laundering, criminal activities, illegalities, fraud, and other financial crimes.

Additionally, Trustformer’s KYT platform boasts advanced risk management and analytical capabilities, providing users with macro and micro insights into crypto asset and entity risk profiles, facilitating timely risk strategy adjustments.

In partnership with NTU,  the government’s vanguard for cyber and information security that guides Singapore’s cyber fortifications, Trustformer is dedicated to advancing blockchain security standards and practices. Both entities are committed to fostering a safer and more reliable trading environment for the global crypto asset community, marking a significant stride towards enhancing the safety and compliance of digital assets.

About Trustformer
Invested and incubated by ChainUp, Trustformer leads in integrating compliance technology with real-time risk monitoring. Harnessing AI language models, Trustformer’s solutions adeptly combine Web2 content semantics with Web3 transaction data, offering unparalleled real-time risk identification. This allows for real-time identification and alerting of risks associated with entities, wallets, and transactions. Adhering to the FATF Travel Rule, Trustformer blends global cross-border financial regulations with localized financial and cryptocurrency licensing policies. This ensures real-time risk identification, transaction analysis, and alerts. Through graphical node reasoning, the platform provides in-depth analysis of transaction addresses and fund flows, in addition to offering risk compliance investigation and financial security audit services.

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Vechain and SingularityNet Combine Blockchain + AI To Drive Sustainability and Build Advanced Enterprise-Grade Tools

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Vechain and SingularityNET, industry leaders in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) respectively, have announced their strategic collaboration. This partnering of technical giants unites powerful emerging technologies with the potential to radically change how the global economy operates, offering powerful enterprise-grade tools to tackle challenges in the field of sustainability and traditional businesses.

In particular, the alliance holds great promise for vechain’s ambitions with Boston Consulting Group, partners, collaborating on building ‘ecosystems’ wherein individuals and businesses are incentivised to act sustainably. SingularityNet’s AI capabilities offer immense potential to enhance and improve these ecosystems, utilising AI technology to pore over data, and improve their efficacy.

Vechain and SingularityNET intend to launch joint research initiatives to fortify the efficacy of each respective platform and ingrain the pair at the heart of future digital development. The combination of these technologies can equip businesses with intelligent tools, signalling the onset of a new phase in the era of digitisation.

Dr. Ben Goertzel, the visionary CEO of SingularityNET, expressed his excitement for the massive potential of this partnership:

“The last few years have taught the world that when the right AI algorithms meet the right data on sufficient processing power, magic can happen.

What’s even better is when the algorithms, data and processing are decentralized in deployment, ownership and control — which is exactly the sort of magic that’s going to happen putting the SingularityNET ecosystem’s AI algorithms together with vechain’s deep and diverse enterprise data, on the joint, secure distributed processing power of the two networks.

This combined power will be applicable to sustainability as one of our initial focus areas, but in the end extends across essentially all vertical markets. It’s hard to overestimate the potential here.”

Vechain’s CTO Antonio Senatore commented:

“We’re excited to be collaborating with leading Web3 AI platform, SingularityNET, combining our rich streams of enterprise data with SingularityNET’s powerful and versatile platform.”

“Blockchain and AI offer game-changing capabilities for industries and enterprises and are opening new avenues of operation. We look forward to working closely with the SingularityNET team to build out new services and continue to advance the fore of possibility in web3 and sustainability.”

Vechain and SingularityNET are enabling a new, more interconnected and automated world, driving new capabilities in the fields of industry and in particular, for action around sustainability.

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Acentrik wins Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Award 2023 for Best Blockchain Product

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Acentrik wins Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Award 2023 for Best Blockchain Product

Mercedes-Benz Singapore has been awarded the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Award in the Blockchain – Automotive Services category for its innovative enterprise product, Acentrik. Now in its fifth year, this awards programme lauds companies that ride the digital disruption wave with technological innovations that have successfully transformed industries and business models.

Acentrik is an enterprise-grade data exchange solution developed for the purpose of enabling greater data sharing in enterprises, across industries. As one horizontal technology applied across multiple industries, Acentrik can be used as a ready-to-use data marketplace for enterprises to exchange data globally; or as a turnkey solution for enterprises to have their own dedicated whitelabel solution to control and define their own ecosystem of participants and data products.

Acentrik’s main feature is Compute-to-Data, with edge computing capabilities – enabling enterprises to align greater data sharing with data privacy.

Compute-to-Data – new potential for data sharing

With Compute-to-Data, which is bringing algorithm to where the data is – allows for privacy- preserving compute jobs for both data provider and consumer. Data providers make confidential data available and monetize from it; while consumers’ algorithms get smarter without being exposed to the raw data. This unlocks greater value in private and confidential data across industries. Acentrik has no access to enterprises’ data, acting as an orchestrator and connecting data sources, ensuring data sovereignty.

By showcasing how a Blockchain solution like Acentrik is revolutionizing the data landscape for enterprises, the journey of this strategic product of Mercedes-Benz has since also led to their recent award.

“It is an astounding win for us, further validating our ambitious work towards driving an innovative product like Acentrik. We are confident to reach further ambitions and with the traction that we’re receiving, we are excited of what’s to come,” Srikanth Kaja, General Manager – Centre of Excellence Web3 of Mercedes-Benz Singapore.

About Acentrik

Acentrik, a strategic product by Mercedes-Benz, is an enterprise solution for decentralized data exchanges. It is built for organizations with focus to create value out of data, ensuring privacy and sovereignty. Acentrik’s vision is to revolutionize the world of data exchanges and contribute to the greater ecosystem of enterprises, explicitly geared to the needs of organizations, enabling greater data sharing in a private and sovereign manner.

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