The UK is sponsoring investigations into organization and management of telephone numbers through Blockchain by Ofcom, the national telecoms regulator. The grant is equal to almost 800.000 euros.

IBM announced the growing adoption of its food value chain network, the IBM Food Trust. The cloud-based blockchain network provides retailers, suppliers, producers and food industry suppliers with data from the entire food ecosystem.

BlackBerry, a software company and former mobile phone maker, has announced plans for a new Blockchain platform to store and share medical data.

An important Chinese university is proposing Blockchain technology as a better way to manage web domains. The patent application was published last week in the USPTO, in the USA.

Ludovic Courcelas of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum will attend the Blockchain Conference on 12 November at the Teatro Tivoli BBVA in Lisbon and will present what this Observatory is.

A new patent granted to IBM highlights how Blockchain technology can play a role in monitoring security breaches in computer networks. This patent was granted this week by USPTO.