Yesterday Chinese search engine firm Baidu launched an entry-level blockchain hosting solution called “Open Network”. The offering is targeted at SMEs and developers and is based on Baidu’s open-source blockchain protocol, XuperChain. Given the government frowns upon public blockchains, the solution is for private or consortium blockchains. Last year Baidu unveiled its own Blockchain as a
Ultra, a next-generation games distribution platform that offers new solutions to both developers and players, this week announced that Ubisoft is to become the first major gaming company to bolster its UOS blockchain, a sister branch of EOSIO, as a corporate block producer, during a trial period on the testnet. Block producers will provide the