Smart City News

Regulations, hype cycles and pie-in-the-sky promises have scuppered blockchain city projects across the globe... but one has succeeded.

Bold Technologies and My Aion unveiled plans to develop a $2.5 billion AI-powered platform that will debut in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Dubai developer DMCC is planning a 17-story Crypto Tower in Dubai, while a Bitcoin hotel in Tokyo is set to open its doors later this year.

The Swiss-based backer of the Internet Computer Protocol will provide training and entrepreneurial support as well as decentralized computing.

The Ethereum creator’s utopia seems a lot like a decentralized autonomous organization, but with taxes.

RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub has proposed a pilot program for Docklands DAO that will help Melbourne precincts recover from the pandemic.

Using their Lightning Network-supporting wallets, participants were able to receive their own beer, poured just seconds after completing the transaction by scanning a QR code.

For “a more vital future,” Praxis is one step closer to building a crypto-powered city utopia, after a funding round from leading crypto VCs.

The Ethereum co-founder sees city tokens as important instruments in promoting economic equality, social initiatives and better governance.

Blockchain technology promises to be the foundational network layer for many systems underpinning successful smart cities.

Is it possible to build a sustainable IoT-powered smart city of the future, one that doesn’t have all the dystopian side effects?

A company that measures air quality and one that provides IoT internet access team up for blockchain-based rewards.

A smart NFT project and top European mobile provider have introduced a SIM card that uses the Blockchain of Things to power smart cities of the future.

Akon’s Akoin cryptocurrency is set to become the exclusive cryptocurrency of the Mwale Medical and Technology City in Kenya.

CEO Jeffrey Berns says the smart city could incorporate digital currency payments for goods and services as well as records on the blockchain.