A rather large blockchain has been founded this week, with IBM providing the platform and Walmart contributing a rather evangelical tone to the announcement. The project aims to improve food safety, through better supply chain tracking, resulting in less illness and death, and also less wasted product. Walmart is also making waves in e-commerce news, with a new Google Express integration for voice-based ordering, but the new consortium has a lot more industry clout. The first and most significant element of Walmart’s news this week is its involvement in the blockchain project, which seems to be being driven by IBM – which has now launched commercial blockchain applications and offerings on its cloud platform. IBM says the new collaboration, aimed…