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Third (and fourth) US patent grant for Chainfrog

Today marks another milestone in the development of Chainfrog’s intellectual property strategy, with the granting and issuing of a United States patent titled “System and method for announcing cryptographic keys on a blockchain” and another titled "Revocation of cryptographic keys in the absence of a trusted central authority". The applications were filed in 2016. The [...]

By |2018-11-20T09:15:16+00:00November 20th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Chainfrog Provenance

Recently we've been talking about a new blockchain demonstration concerned with providing proof of file data provenance. Ed has published an excellent article over here explaining how and why it works, and what its use is. There's even a link you can follow to try out the system. https://image-writer.blockbinder.com/image-writer Have a go!

By |2018-05-19T08:55:15+00:00May 19th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Chainfrog IoT

Back in the late nineties when I worked at Citrix Systems, we used to have regular meetings to discuss something called "ubiquitous computing". A lot of what was discussed was related to what was later to become the Internet of Things. Although the IoT has become a reality, mainly through a recognition that the value [...]

By |2018-05-07T14:13:51+00:00May 7th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Au revoir

If there's one thing you can be sure of when running a start-up, it's that there will be change. We're sad to have to announce that Meiss Marten has left Chainfrog to pursue other opportunities. We were glad to have her on board for the last year, and wish her well with her future career. [...]

By |2018-04-12T13:22:46+00:00April 12th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Second US patent grant for Chainfrog

Today marks a yet another significant milestone in the development of Chainfrog's intellectual property strategy, with the granting and issuing of a United States patent titled “Peer-to-peer geolocation system”. The application was filed in December 2015, and to the best of our knowledge is the first patent grant to a Finnish company for a blockchain [...]

By |2018-02-13T20:58:39+00:00February 13th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

All Talk and No Action

How to actually move forward with a blockchain pilot It drives me up the wall when people talk and talk about doing something and never actually get up and do it. I hated it when I was a teenager in a band, and it frustrates me now when I'm trying to get a new project [...]

By |2018-01-24T08:28:57+00:00January 24th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Slush 2017 Summary

Slush 2017. Slush 2017! Well, I thought that as a new undergraduate going to Fresher's Week at Cambridge University was intense, but it pales into insignificance compared to those last two days in the Messukeskus at Pasila, Helsinki. Smoke from the smoke machines, regular thumping and grinding sounds in the background from the sound system, [...]

By |2017-12-02T23:31:16+00:00December 2nd, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Chainfrog launching Blockbinder at Slush17 – booth B34

Meow! Now is an excellent opportunity to meet Finland’s first blockchain technology company at Slush 2017! Blockchain provides a remarkable new way of sharing data when there is a lack of complete trust, providing reliability, consistency and traceability. The technology offers new types of earnings and cost saving models for businesses and the public sector, [...]

By |2017-11-28T17:39:34+00:00November 28th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Pirkanmaan liitto and Chainfrog

We recently held a workshop for members of Pirkanmaan liitto (Council of Tampere Region) concerned with fostering innovation in the region. The results of the workshop and the discussions had are available in a blog post they released today. We looked at the possibilities of applying blockchain technology to waste management markets, health services and [...]

By |2017-11-06T19:00:28+00:00November 6th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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