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The Bitfury Group has been chosen as one of the World Economic Forum’s 2019 “Technology Pioneers,” a select group of the most promising global companies that are disrupting a broad cross-section of industries. The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology company, and Mphasis, an Information Technology solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, have announced a strategic partnership to bring new levels of automation, transparency and efficiency to the financial services infrastructure that underpins global trade.

Final Frontier today announced the launch of a fully regulated bitcoin mining fund designed for institutional and professional investors, following authorization by a European financial regulator. The product, developed by Final Frontier, provides investors with a regulated investment vehicle to gain exposure to bitcoin mining. It was engineered leveraging Bitfury’s world-class expertise in hardware development and mining, and Final Frontier’s experience developing and structuring financial products.

The Bitfury Group and health data company Longenesis launched production of a blockchain-based consent management solution for doctors and patients that streamlines data collection for medical research, built on Bitfury’s Exonum blockchain platform.

The Bitfury Group has partnered with leading Korea IT security company Hancom Secure to distribute Bitfury’s Crystal™ analytics platform to their clients. Hancom Secure clients will soon be able to use the Crystal platform to improve KYC/AML procedures, further cybercrime investigations, and support blockchain-based financial services.

The Bitfury Group announced it has integrated the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the merchant payment processing platform offered by HadePay. Merchants across the United States, Canada and the European Union can now use the HadePay platform to accept Lighting Network bitcoin payments, using Bitfury’s Peach merchant API.

The partnership between Bitfury, the world's leading full-service blockchain technology company, Longenesis, a startup that merges AI and blockchain, and MDW radiology marketplace will create a next-generation platform for maintaining, sharing and securing medical imaging and diagnostics data. Deployment of this blockchain infrastructure is expected to set new industry standards for healthcare blockchain implementation.

The Bitfury Group and the Seoul-based Commons Foundation have announced a partnership to open and operate bitcoin transaction processing centers in Paraguay as part of the foundation’s “Golden Goose” initiative to expand cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation in Spanish-speaking countries.

The Bitfury Group today released a product bundle designed to make the Lightning Network easier for vendors and consumers to use. The product list includes an open-source Lightning Network-enabled bitcoin wallet, a hardware terminal and e-commerce software for merchants and payment processors to accept Lightning Network payments, a suite of developer tools, and a public Lightning Network node to help bitcoin users open and create payment channels. The products were created and are supported by Bitfury’s Lightning Network engineering and research team, Lightning Peach.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Bitfury Group today released the first-ever Arabic and Hindi translations of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Translations Will Help Spur Wider Adoption of Bitcoin and Blockchain.