Europe’s largest port set to test its blockchain-powered energy trading platform

Europe’s largest ferry port is readying its blockchain-based energy trading application for deployment. The Port of Rotterdam announced last week that its blockchain-based energy trading platform is “complete in principle” and it will begin testing it in the coming months. The news comes about 18 months after the port and the Rotterdam municipality initially set up its blockchain development group, BlockLab. It first announced it was developing the blockchain-based energy trading platform shortly after in October 2017. BlockLab has developed its energy trading platform in collaboration with energy and commodities information provider S&P Global Platts. According to the announcement, the…

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