Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will now avail blockchain services from smart contract platform TomoChain following a recent partnership. The Ministry would make use of blockchain’s core features such as transparency and having an immutable verification of data. According to a release shared with AMBCrypto, the Ministry’s National Qualifications Archive program will ensure...Read More
Vietnam’s Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank is in the news after it joined RippleNet as a strategic partner on 16 October. Phong Nguyen, Head of Fintech at OCB, described the strategic partnership as the result of a “10-month effort in mobilizing multi-division resources and aggressively exploring business use cases.” According to Nguyen, Ripple’s technology will...Read More
A Thai man who called himself the “cryptocurrency wizard” was arrested in Bangkok today, in relation to a 500 million baht cryptocurrency exchange fraud. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, 48-year old Mana Jumuang was part of a Thai-Vietnamese criminal group that duped thousands of people across multiple Asian countries. An arrest warrant...Read More