Refugees and asylum seekers forced to leave their homes are often found without paperwork, posing problems for them and for legal authorities in proving their very existence.

Thirty per cent of developmental aid is thought to go missing due to corruption and fraud.

Can digital tech make your coffee even tastier? The US startup Bext360 is banking on the blockchain to increase fairness and accountability in the coffee business.

A new app combines an open-book platform with an ethereum-ba

Provenance, a blockchain platform, lets you trace the supply chain of more than 200 different products.

The nonprofit BitGive is developing a platform that allows you to make donations in bitcoin and trace your money all the way from your wallet to the charity project.

It's been called "one of the most important scientific achievements of the last 100 years" and "the distributed trust network that the Internet always needed and never had." So, what exactly is blockchain technology and how does it work?

Ownership is so last century. The new startup Slock.it wants to make it easier for people to share their assets in a direct, autonomous and secure way - by integrating blockchain into the sharing economy.

Billions of people around the world are excluded from conventional banking systems. One UK-based fintech startup believes it has come up with a solution - a new, alternative kind of financial infrastructure that’s available to anyone who owns a smartphone with an in-built camera - that connects them to the global economy and all the opportunities that it offers.