SINGAPORE (July 24): KrisPay, a collaborative effort between KPMG Digital Village, Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Microsoft, has launched today as the world’s first blockchain-based airline loyalty digital wallet.

This follows a proof-of-concept exercise which was successfully completed in Feb 2018, and comes ahead of SIA’s previously-announced estimation that the app would be launched six months from early Feb.

See: SIA's KrisFlyer programme to launch blockchain-based digital wallet app

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