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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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South Korea's largest bank joins Hedera Governing Council

Shinhan Bank plans to use Hedera’s infrastructure to bolster the efficiency of many of its internal processes.

Shinhan Bank, South Korea’s largest financial institution by total assets, has joined the governance council overseeing the Hedera network.

In an April 14 announcement, Shinhan announced it had become the latest member of the Hedera Governing Council to expand its efforts in the field of “digital transformation.” Hedera touts its hashgraph as an enterprise-grade blockchain platform capable of processing thousands of transactions per second.

Shinhan representatives emphasized growing client demand for enhanced efficiency and security in financial services, stating:

“Hedera's public distributed ledger in particular is uniquely suited to meet the needs of a widely-used fintech service that must be fast, fair, secure, and enable the controls and visibility required by service providers.”

The bank will now begin integrating Hedera into its systems to “increase the efficiency of its internal processes.”

Shinhan, which ranked as the world’s 61st-largest bank with $478.5 billion in assets as of August 2020, is no stranger to distributed ledger technology, having built a variety of services on Hyperledger Fabric since 2017, including policy loan, interest rate swaps, and pension fund deals.

In March, Shinhan announced it had developed a blockchain-based pilot platform for testing a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, in partnership with LG Corporation’s IT services wing. The platform seeks to allow local banks to act as intermediaries for a CBDC.

Shinhan also invested in the local crypto custody consortium, Korea Digital Asset Trust, at the start of the year.

Hedera Hashgraph co-founder and CEO Mance Harmon, noted “increased interest from financial institutions and governments worldwide in DLT-based financial services” for payment systems and global settlement services.

“We are thrilled that Shinhan Bank has joined the Hedera Governing Council, and look forward to working with them to be on the leading edge of the future of finance,” Harmon added.

Hedera has expanded its global reach in recent months, with French utility giant Électricité de France joining its governing council in March, Standard Bank Group becoming its first African node operator in February, and Australia’s top debit infrastructure provider Eftpos joining the council after completing micropayments trials with Hedera last year.

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