Blockchains

TNO and blockchains

Blockchain technology is built on foundations of database technology, networks and distributed computing and cryptography - all areas where TNO has a long history of expertise as well as significant contributions. In view of significant challenges to business and society, TNO brings extensive expertise in business modeling, regulation and policy development. Want to know more about how TNO works on the development of Blockchain Technologies?

Blog: Self-Sovereign Identity - the good, the bad and the ugly

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) promises to empower citizens with new means to manage privacy, elimination of logins, and much faster transactions via the internet as well as in real life. SSI promises to empower organisations to speed up and automate transactions with customers, suppliers and partners, resulting in billions of euros savings on administrative costs, and higher customer satisfaction that results from better and speedier decision-making.

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Blog: Information Centric Networking and Blockchain

Blockchains or blockchain technology (BCT) are technologies based on peer-to-peer cryptographic functions in a fully distributed architecture. The scalability of blockchains is threatened by the suboptimality of its data exchange model, due to the fact that most data is exchanged redundantly many times. Blockchain scalability is a widely acknowledged problem as a showstopper to large-scale deployment.

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