The European Blockchain Partnership Finds Europe Getting Serious About Distributed Ledger Technology

October 14th, 2018 – On April 10, 2018, 21 EU member states and Norway signed up to create the European Blockchain Partnership. Including the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland, they committed themselves to “cooperate in the establishment of a European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) that will support the delivery of cross-border digital public services, with the highest standards of security and privacy.”
Since April, a further five nations have joined the Partnership, with Italy becoming the latest to do so after it signed the Partnership’s Declaration in September. As a member, it has committed itself to helping to identify, by the end of 2018, “an initial set of cross-border digital public sector services that could be deployed through the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure.”
By bringing distributed ledger technology (DLT) to European infrastructure, the Partnership hopes to make cross-border services – such as those related to logistics and regulatory reporting – safer and more efficient. However, progress towards this goal has so far been slow and piecemeal, with the Partnership’s members having had only three meetings since April. Nonetheless, it retains ambitious aims, with the European Commission telling Cointelegraph that it wants the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) to become an international “gold standard” for large-scale DLTs.

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