The news: According to a report in the Financial Times, a team of researchers from Google led by John Martinis have demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time.

The software development world can be unforgiving but it doesn’t have to be. By thinking about the teams who build your products as much as the money you’ll make from delivering a great product, culture will improve and you’ll get better results. Remember: treat others as you’d like to be treated.

An executive order banning Venezuela’s petro cryptocurrency, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, could be voted into law as soon as Monday, setting a potentially dangerous precedent for other cryptocurrencies.

Mastercard jumps on the blockchain bandwagon with R3 to help ease international payments. Visa made a similar announcement this week.

A group of oil and gas companies has agreed to begin testing blockchain, a technology at the heart of digital currencies, in a bid to lower administrative costs in their field operations while also reducing payment disputes and chances for fraud.

CIOs have to continue to educate execs and senior leaders about blockchain opportunities and challenges and continue to develop proofs of concept to test its business worthiness, the research firm says.

MERJ Exchange Ltd. said it is raising $4 million in the world’s first initial public offering of a tokenized security on a national stock exchange. The IPO on the Seychelles Stock Exchange values the company at $25 million, MERJ said in a statement. MERJ, which operates the exchange, is selling 1.65 million shares at $2.42 each.

This new installment of our series of reports is an important addition to the overall regulatory and market consideration of the token ecosystem. The way in which digital tokens operate is complex and can maintain multiple characteristics — from an investment contract, to something necessary for utilizing a digital platform, to a form of payment or exchange, to name just a few.

Merj Exchange is an innovative end-to-end, multi-market global financial exchange for Equities, Debt and Derivatives. MERJ has now launched its digital assets and security token markets along with the opportunity to invest in MERJ Exchange.

The PBoC's new digital currency chief has said its upcoming digital yuan has features not offered by Facebook Libra.