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Governing the KOSMoS Consortium Blockchain
How can a blockchain-based system without a central authority be managed in a well-organized manner? Often, problems like a limited amount of trust or missing rules and processes make it easy to create chaos in such an ecosystem. The challenge is to define processes...
Datarella is part of the EU-funded Blockpool program
Datarella successfully applied for the Blockpool program and is very proud to announce that it was selected into the 25 companies working on promising Blockpool solutions. The Blockpool call received over 100 proposals from 27 European countries, in more than 11...
Ask Datarella: What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?
People in the blockchain space often throw around the words Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) as though it was self-explanatory. Additionally, BFT often pops up in discussions about consensus mechanisms. If you look closer, in the consensus algorithm space there are...
Ask Datarella: What is Interblockchain Communication?
You may have heard people in the blockchain space throwing the term Inter-Blockchain Communication or IBC around lately. This term refers to any technology that allows transactions across multiple blockchains. It's not that simple though. There are actually two...
SmartAid – The Next Generation Donation Platform
Will my donation arrive at the people in need? Or will it get lost, somewhere in the administration costs of a humanitarian organization? Today, intransparent systems confront donors with a high degree of uncertainty, which diminishes their overall willingness to...
Welcome To The Matrix – The Next Gen Of Software Agents
Last October during the Outlier Ventures Diffusion Hackathon, we built a Proof of Concept of a Parking Agent System - Effortless Parking, which could solve the coordination problem of parking in crowded cities. In this post, we will look at the individual components...
Traceable Accounting – A Blockchain-Based Automated Real-Time Accounting Approach
Faced with the imminent Wirecard accounting scandal, and an apparent lack of diligence by audit firms, regulatory bodies, and the government have realized that financial accounting must be improved significantly. However, previous improvements in financial accounting...
Is the German Covid-19 Tracing App a Hidden Self-Sovereign Identity?
Today, the long-awaited Covid-19 tracing app will be released in Germany, which should help to detect infection chains and warn potentially infected people that they were in contact with someone infected with the virus at some point recently. The decentralized...
Webinar Recap: An Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity
Last week, Martin Schäffner gave an introduction to blockchain-enabled Self-Sovereign Identity at the Crypto and Blockchain Meetup bdvb HG Bayreuth. Did you miss it? No problem! Re-watch his webinar on YouTube (link below). Self-Sovereign Identity is a trending topic...
EBA Publishes Proof-of-Stake Infrastructure Position Paper EUPoS
On 8 June, the Proof-of-Stake EUPos Working Group within the European Blockchain Association EBA has published its Staking Infrastructure Position Paper (PDF) over the course of a website relaunch with a new, fresh look & feel. The Position Paper aims to give...
Datarella Expands Blockchain Development Team To Macedonia
Since 2015, Datarella has been active in building enterprise blockchain solutions in the humanitarian sector, in the fields of supply chain and mobility, and in finance and real estate. Leveraging combined resources from Munich, Germany, and its Gdansk, Poland, Baltic...
Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity Components – Part 2
Last week we started a series of articles for an introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity components. In the first article, we have taken a look at some of the fundamental elements of SSI - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), their corresponding DID Documents and...