Wal-Mart is set to begin a broad-reaching international test of blockchain shared digital ledger technology, using the highly encrypted tech to track produce transactions in the U.S. and pork-related transactions in China in an effort to improve food safety, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Wal-Mart is partnering with IBM and China’s Tsinghua University on the project, which is slated to start in the first quarter of 2017 and will last for four months.
