Blockchain may not be a very popular idea right now, but it is winning the hearts of people in places no one would have imagined.

Starbucks aims to give consumers and farmers more data on its coffee products using a blockchain service from Microsoft.

About 17,250 BTC (~$89 million) was withdrawn from Bitfinex’s bitcoin cold wallet at 6:35am GMT. The bitcoin cold wallet still has a balance of 102,285 BTC (~$525.5 million) at the time of writing. About 633,300 ETH (~$96 million) was withdrawn from Bitfinex’s ether cold wallet today, according to TokenAnalyst. The ether cold wallets still have …

American blockchain startup Flexa raised $14.1 million in funding to release a blockchain-powered payment network for retailers.

FPT Corporation and SBI Holdings Inc have jointly invested $3 million in Vietnamese blockchain startup Utop.

Our new Blockchain 50 list features big companies--with minimum revenues or valuations of $1 billion, and U.S. operations.

The IMF and World Bank are teaming up to make a new cryptocurrency to help organizations learn more about blockchain technology.

New York-based blockchain company ConsenSys is reportedly seeking investors to raise $200 million.

International Business Machines Corporation 's IBM blockchain-driven solutions continue to win adoption from retailers. Recently, IBM Food Trust Network was selected by Albertsons Companies - a U.S.-based food and drug retailer.

Though central banks are among the most cautious and prudent institutions in the world, recent research indicates that these institutions, perhaps surprisingly, are among the first to implement blockchain technology.