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Air France is set to trial a blockchain-based system for verifying COVID-19 test results for its passengers.
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A new blockchain system will be used to manage and track COVID-19 exposure among students and staff in multiple charter schools across California state.
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We should encourage more climate-friendly practices, including less air travel, and the crypto community can be a great example of it.
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There won’t be a better chance for India to unlock the full potential of blockchain tech in the digital media industry.
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Blockchain-based digital passports containing a traveler’s COVID-19 testing and vaccination status will begin pilots in the next month.
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The need for secure, privacy-centric, fraud-proof digital identities that allow us to demonstrate our credentials has never been greater.
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Without the global retail trader base, the Bitcoin market would not be what it is today: the investment champion of 2020.
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With secure data tokenization, we will see a mass migration of both applications and users from existing power infrastructures to blockchain.
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With applications for new businesses surging in the U.S., a crypto-focused platform says it is determined to help entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground.
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The idea of global vaccination and health data being stored in centralized systems has more than privacy experts freaking out.
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The U.K.'s National Health Service will implement an IoT solution built on the public distributed ledger network Hedera Hashgraph in order to monitor the storage of its COVID-19 vaccine supplies.
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A blockchain platform is bringing transparency and traceability to supply chains — improving levels of food safety and authenticating the provenance of COVID-19 test kits.
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Jeju Island and blockchain company Iconloop are proceeding with a full rollout of their COVID-19 contact tracing app following successful pilots.
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Ubrich GmbH is providing a solution using Iota to the Frankfurt Airport coronavirus testing center.
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