by Angela Guess

A recent press release reports, “Cogint, Inc., a leading provider of information and performance marketing solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Seattle-based Dragonchain, Inc.  cogint and Dragonchain are collaborating on the implementation of cogint solutions, including asset tracking, identity verification, fraud prevention, and transaction security with the Dragonchain blockchain platform.  The goal of the collaboration is to integrate mission-critical business applications with the secure, serverless, scalable Dragonchain blockchain platform to empower businesses of all kinds to adopt the Dragonchain blockchain platform for their daily business functions.”

The release goes on, “Dragonchain’s founder and CEO, Joe Roets, has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010, including at Overstock™, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company where he worked with Eileen Quenin, current VP Strategic Partnerships at Dragonchain, who has prior experience including GE Healthcare, Amazon.com and LexisNexis®.  In 2014, Disney’s Seattle technology team set out to develop a blockchain protocol with the goal of ensuring greater data privacy than other enterprise-oriented blockchains.  In 2016, Disney made the project open source.  No longer affiliated with Disney, Roets and Quenin lead Dragonchain in its expansion of what is now known as the Dragonchain blockchain platform into a variety of commercial applications.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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