The second largest US bank has applied for a new Blockchain-related patent. This time it's a cryptographic storage system and was published by the US Patent Office last week.

A subsidiary of China's first fully online insurer, ZhongAn Insurance, which is listed on Hong Kong, says it placed 760,000 diamonds in Blockchain. The information of this diamonds was sent to Anlink.

Russia's Ministry of Defense is launching a research laboratory to look at how Blockchain technology can be used to mitigate cyber-security attacks and to determine if the technology protect critical infrastructures.

A member of the Electoral Commission of Ukraine revealed that the Commission is working on a voting pilot in Blockchain in conjunction with the NEM, a private Blockchain platform, with 28 nodes.

Japanese giant Sony has registered two patents to stimulate Blockchain-based ecosystems. Patents were registered in early August in the United States and the company wants to improve the hardware structure for Blockchain.

Researchers at one of China's top universities, Fudan University, say they have developed a decentralized exchange platform, not for cryptographic assets, but for unused energy.