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Humanitarian Supply Blockchain: Concluding Phase 1 of Track & Trust
October last year in London, we kicked off the Humanitarian Supply Blockchain Proof of Technology with members of Britain's Department for International Development (DFID) and their Frontier Technology Livestreaming (FTL) programme. The technology to be “proven” in...
Ask Datarella #4 – What Is A Consortium Blockchain?
In its purest form, a blockchain is a public, permissionless network. Equipped with a consensus mechanism and an underlying incentive scheme that motivates participants to act in a fair and healthy way, making the network robust. However, most so-called enterprise...
Designing the Logo for Track & Trust
In October 2018, we started developing a blockchain based supply chain solution for UK government’s DFID. The system was supposed to track accountability of goods on their way to disaster areas. In June 2019 we successfully tracked a shipment from Pakistan to Dubai,...
German Government Officially Supports Blockchain Technology
On 18 September 2019, the German government issued a 24-page strategy paper called “Blockchain-Strategie der Bundesregierung”, an official statement outlining the initiatives Germany together with other EU states plan to support Blockchain-technology. This paper was...
Ask Datarella #3 – What is Staking?
Proof-of-Stake is an energy-efficient way of coming to a conclusion on the accurate state of a distributed system.
Banking The Unbanked IoT
Banking the Unbanked always refers to human beings and their enablement to participate in the global financial system by providing them with bank accounts. In this post, I argue for banking unbanked devices, i.e. machines, that are connected through the internet...
Datarella Joins Convergence Alliance As Founding Member
Since the advent of the internet aka Web 1.0, internet users have been enabled to shop online and to receive information from all over the world with a few mouse clicks. Since Web 2.0, users could actively participate by producing and sharing content, information and...
Datarella, Wertgrund, Hammer to announce PropTech Joint Venture
We are proud to announce that Datarella, WERTGRUND and Hammer have established the Munich-based PropTech Joint Venture RAAY Real Estate. Our objective is to develop and sell blockchain-based products and services to the real estate industry. RAAY Real Estate, a...
European Commission Study on Legal, Governance and Interoperability Aspects of Blockchain
We are happy to announce that Datarella is part of a pan-European study initiated by the European Commission. The European Commission wants to understand blockchain developments and its impact on society and the economy. Our study will provide evidence and suggestions...
Updates on the KOSMoS Project
We want to use the event of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing to give some updates on the KOSMoS project we are currently working on. Together with partners from the industry, university institutions and software development, we are continuously making one step...
Ask Datarella #2: Blockchain Doesn’t Mean Anonymity
In casual discussions about blockchain and DLT it's easy to mix up anonymity with pseudonymity. People often use the one term when they mean the other. There is a small but important difference we'll explore in this post. On the one hand anonymity describes the...
Ask Datarella #1: But Doesn’t Blockchain Use a Ton of Energy?
People often ask us if our our blockchain solutions are energy efficient. There’s a lot of articles and good research out there indicating that the most famous blockchain, Bitcoin, uses as much energy per year as a small country. Let's take a quick look at the myths...