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The Bitfury Group today announced it has launched Exonum Enterprise, a full-service blockchain division building on Bitfury’s Exonum™️ award-winning blockchain framework. The “Blockchain-as-a-Service” (or BaaS) offering will help companies and governments easily design and launch private blockchain projects.

After previously releasing open-source software that anyone could use for free to run a permissioned blockchain similar to bitcoin, Bitfury today launched Exonum Enterprise, the first such blockchain built from the ground up to let large corporations streamline their business and increase transparency using the bitcoin blockchain.

Companies including traditional financial institution Scotiabank, cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Bitfinex and blockchain investigation firms Chainalysis and Bitfury Crystal assembled a crack team of compliance officers—dubbed Project Participate—to compile a report on crime and the blockchain.

The Bitfury Group announced that veteran technology and finance expert Katsuya Konno will lead its business expansion in the strategically important market of Japan. Konno’s appointment underscores Bitfury’s ongoing commitment to develop cutting-edge technology solutions for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals across Japan and the rest of Asia.

The Bitfury Group announced today that Joseph Capes will serve as the new head of Bitfury’s liquid cooling subsidiary, Allied Control Limited, a leading provider of high-performance computing and liquid cooling technologies. The company’s award-winning technology is used in datacenters globally, including Bitfury’s high-performance transaction processing centers.

Bitfury Surround today announced that online music rights management company SoundVault has joined as its first strategic partner. SoundVault will integrate its technology and services exclusively into the Surround™ ecosystem when it launches in 2020.

The Bitfury Group has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) division, a major expansion that supports its mission to build innovative new solutions across the emerging technologies landscape. The AI division will operate alongside Bitfury’s well-established blockchain services portfolio and build on several years of research and development by the company’s award-winning engineering team.

European blockchain company The Bitfury Group, valued recently at more than $1 billion, has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) division, the company’s top official told Reuters in an interview. The AI division will operate alongside Bitfury’s existing blockchain services and remain part of the company. Bitfury is one of a handful of blockchain companies around the world with at least a $1 billion valuation.

Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today welcomed 11 new members, including Bitfury, to its expanding enterprise blockchain community.

Enterprises that leverage blockchain technology have become a defining characteristic of 2019. While Bitcoin is best known for being a decentralized digital currency, the Bitfury Group recognized the potential in leveraging the Bitcoin blockchain when developing Exonum, their asset-management blockchain framework.