Hexalina will be present at the Singapore Fintech Festival from 12 to 16 November. Beyond Fintech, the conference explores the future of finance and how to improve financial inclusion. The event attracts 30,000 delegates from all over the world. Get in touch if you want to discuss how we could shape a better future for digital platforms, by sharing added … Read More
Hexalina exhibits at SuperNova
SuperNova is Super Ambitious: Think “TED meets TechCrunch Disrupt”… a one-of-a-kind event where visionary solutions, technologies and insights come together. Where game-changers and businesses of tomorrow meet and entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives connect to get inspired and empowered. The festival will cover an entire area of the port of Antwerp in Belgium be hosted at several sites, including some brand … Read More
Hexalina at Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
Hexalina was at the Ethereum Community Conference, in Paris from 8 to 10 March. This conference brought together the whole Ethereum (and larger blockchain) ecosystem for 3 days of presentations, forums and workshops. EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference) was hosted in Paris at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) on 8th, 9th and 10th March 2018. Time for longer … Read More
Hexalina at European Commission with Benelux blockchain startups
Hexalina presented its technology at a meeting with between the European Commission and the Benelux tech organizations involved with Blockchain. Three Benelux organisations active in the area of technology – Belgium’s B-Hive, the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT ) and the Dutch Blockchain Coalition – have signed an agreement to collaborate on distributed ledger technology. Over the next 12 … Read More
Trust and brand
Will the blockchain allow to create trust without having to build a brand first? Photo: jbosari / Flickr The sharing economy is often described as “peer-to-peer”: you have a car and I need a ride, you have a spare room and I need a place to stay… a way of sharing assets directly between individuals. In practice, however, all this … Read More
Social currency is not a new idea
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison proposed to create a social currency in 1921 In August 1918, Henry Ford bought the entire northern half of Green Island, New York. His friend, Thomas Edison, had introduced Ford to the area he knew well since he founded GE in nearby Schenectady. Ford’s idea was to build a hydroelectric power plant, in a visionary … Read More
How it all started
Listening to a podcast can lead to an idea, and idea to a mission, and a mission to a company Photo: Jonathan McIntosh / Flickr It was in June, on a Sunday morning, I was having breakfast while catching up on my a16z podcast episodes. I have been a long time subscriber of the Andreessen-Horowitz podcast, because it’s addressing high … Read More