Based in Brazil, Pago Digital started as just Rakan Almerida’s dream to have a business. He wants to become one of the pioneers in Latin America’s digital services scene, with the eventual aim of having a substantial presence in each state of Brazil.

The value of this goal cannot be overstated. Over the past few years, Brazil and the rest of its Latin American neighbors have become a veritable boomtown for the digital payments scene and with good reason. Smartphone penetration in the region is at 60 percent and is expected to reach 76 percent by 2025. Additionally, the volume of online sales in the region is growing at about 19 percent per year.

As a result, some Latin American businesses have sought out partners to streamline and speed up the adoption of digital payment systems. In Pago Digital’s case, they’ve adopted the XPOS platform developed by Singapore-based company Pundi X. The XPOS is a point of sale system that can be installed in brick-and-mortar stores, enabling them to complete transactions on the blockchain.

This case study will explore the ways Pundi X’s XPOS platform have impacted Pago Digital’s business and what the future may hold for their partnership.

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More: https://medium.com/pundix/xpos-merchant-pago-digital-explores-the-potential-of-blockchain-based-digital-currency-bf6176636ae4

The global moment we find ourselves in today is unlike any other. It has thrown up uncertainty and confusion, yet at the same time it has shed light on something that has always been central to the Streamr vision — the enduring strength and importance of community; the ways in which our connections are what strengthen us in good times and bad.

The Streamr community is not only invaluable to the growth of the ecosystem and the ultimate success of the Streamr project, it energises the team with ideas, challenges and discourse on a daily basis. So this felt like a good time to check in with you all, to review everything we have accomplished since launch, with your support. I’ll also be running an AMA on the 11th of June at 15:00 CEST, but this article can give an overview ahead of that, and perhaps prompt some questions for discussion. Let’s begin by reminding ourselves of the vision.

The Streamr Vision

Streamr was founded with the goal of building a real-time data infrastructure for future data economies. Ideally, all data streams in the world could be accessed via your nearest node, with participants incentivised to provide both content and delivery services on the system.

The cornerstones of Streamr’s chosen approach are decentralization, peer-to-peer and blockchain. This is because, in our view, the only acceptable implementation of a future data infrastructure is one that is global, scalable, secure, robust, neutral, accessible and permissionless.

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https://medium.com/streamrblog/streamr-project-update-june-2020-94d3e4217519

Blockchain application to land management is the only solution to cope with current food shortage impact in emerging countries.

https://earlycryptonews.com/current-food-shortage-impact-fieldcoins-approach/

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