***IBM Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Web Browser***

A new patent application from IBM describes a blockchain-based web browser. Filed on August 6 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, IBM’s patent is for a web browser backed by a peer-to-peer network. As the company states, a blockchain-based browser “affords a system for storing browsing information such that privacy is preserved and places privacy in the ‘hands of a user’ rather than a third party.” IBM says tokens will verify a users browser session activities as they are packaged into blocks for the peer-to-peer network.

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