Mastercard has filed a patent for Blockchain scaling: Mastercard International has applied for a patent for rapid processing of tracking data on Blockchain systems to increase transaction volume. The move comes as a surprise to some as the "Mastercard" has referred to digital currencies in the past as "unknown garbage".

While the etherium announces "Sharding": the inventor of the etherium Vittalik Putrein announced that "Sharding" is coming, a long-awaited solution to the pluchene-etherium protocol. "Sharding" is said to be an important part of increasing scalability to 100 times, which experts claim is needed to support large-scale decentralized applications.