PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the second-largest professional services firm in the world, which has around 236,000 employees and operates in 158 countries, today announced that its Hong Kong and Singapore subsidiaries “have each acquired a small ownership interest in VeChain”, the blockchain-as-a-service company (incorporated in Singapore) that is focused on supply chain management, smart contracts, and financial services.
This is how the VeChain Foundation announced the news on Twitter by quoting part of the press release from PwC Hong Kong:
“PwC HK is now in discussions with VeChain to provide trust based services on the VeChain platform. This will require the use of VeChain Tokens to access and perform transactions on the platform. ”
Thank you @RaymundChao and rest of PwC executives for your innovation. https://t.co/Us8z8pOrYN— VeChain Foundation (@vechainofficial) May 4, 2018
Raymund Chao, PwC Asia Pacific and Greater China Chairman, made the following comment about this collaboration:
This is an important strategic collaboration to provide innovative professional services using blockchain technology… We are glad to establish a deeper relationship with VeChain, which aims to build a trusted and distributed business ecosystem to help address long-standing challenges in supply chain management, food trust and anti-counterfeiting areas. VeChain’s mission aligns with PwC’s purpose of solving important problems and building trust in society,
Although VeChain (VEN) held a rebranding event on 28 February 2018 to change the name of its blockchain from “VeChain” to “VeChain Thor” (VET), most websites including major crypto exchanges such as Binance are still referring to this project by its old name. At the time, the company wrote on Reddit that they wanted to have “a full revamp from a private blockchain to a qualified decentralized application platform servicing public applications, on a decentralized ledger, capable of evolving how the world defines business ecosystems.”
The VeChainThor blockchain will have two tokens on it: VeChainToken (VET) and VeThor (VTHO). VTHO tokens are generated by holding VET tokens in a similar manner to how GAS tokens are generated by holding NEO tokens. When the Mainnet launches on 30 June 2018, VEN tokens wil be converted to VET tokens on a 1:1 basis.
