EghtesadOnline: Months after the idea was first publicized, it seems that Iran is now inching closer to tapping into the potentials of blockchain technology to operate its own virtual currency.

EghtesadOnline: In late February about 200 executives, coders, and developers gathered in the downtown Brooklyn office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. to hear an all-day pitch for a new industry group called the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Ethereum? It’s the ghostly sounding name for a so-called blockchain technology similar to the one that made the digital currency bitcoin possible.

EghtesadOnline: Blockchain technology is set to decentralize mechanisms governing the world’s financial systems and the Central Bank of Iran has focused efforts on studying ways to benefit from that technology, says the secretary general of Central Bank of Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Tapping the potential of blockchain technology , Iran ICT Ministry and the National Library signed a memorandum of understanding to digitize the library's massive archives and create an open data platform that can help promote successful business ventures.