The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,780 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to Skuchain, Inc. of Mountain View, California. The grant funds the development of a blockchain platform to facilitate faster and safer transactions for manufactured goods supply chains. Specifically, the company will address scalability, security and interoperability challenges through hierarchical public/private keys, granular access controls using...
Softhread Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to develop a blockchain-enabled clinical registry program. Funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), the six-month project will support Softhread's work to foster innovation in engineering through the creation of a clinical registry platform leveraging blockchain technology. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve...
The National Science Foundation awarded Forward Edge Ai Inc. a $997,567 cooperative agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a blockchain system for preserving integrity of communication channels. The two-year project will create and test technical solutions using blockchain to help maintain the security and trustworthiness of digital connections and exchanges of information. Forward Edge Ai will perform the work in San Antonio, Texas...
This $275,000 SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program seeks to develop a blockchain-based platform that can accurately represent and execute complex intellectual property (IP) rights. The project aims to deconstruct legal IP documents into "programmable rights units" that can be automatically executed on any blockchain in a cost-efficient manner. The anticipated result is a blockchain-agnostic...
The National Science Foundation awarded Glossifi Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from January 15, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The grant funds the development of blockchain ontology and services to monitor and perform analytics on smart contracts. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award advances those goals through Glossifi's work...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $855,394 cooperative agreement to Leaf Global Fintech Corp under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for the period February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The award will support the company's SBIR Phase II project to develop blockchain-backed financial transaction technology facilitating access to banking services in low-bandwidth environments. Specifically, the technology aims to digitize international money...
This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 in funding to Radius Technology Systems, Inc. to develop a high-throughput smart contract platform capable of processing over 1 million transactions per second. The key innovation is the ability to execute smart contract transactions in parallel without needing to serialize a global order, enabling horizontal scalability. The platform...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,193 to Knox Networks, Inc. to research and develop a novel tokenization approach for file-based digital assets (FBDAs). The project aims to create a production-ready FBDA product that improves upon existing distributed ledger and database technologies in scalability, interoperability, privacy, and programmability. The technology has potential...
This $255,837 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of a blockchain-driven, distributed memory computational platform for industrial analytics by Blockalytics LLC. The platform will enable predictive analytics on geographically distributed industrial data without data movement or reliance on cloud-based solutions. Blockalytics will integrate blockchain smart contracts with distributed memory frameworks to design primitives similar to MapReduce for blockchain and develop...
Organicsmart Inc. received a $255,786 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a hybrid blockchain technology enabling safe and transparent distribution of perishable goods. The award period runs from March 15, 2022 through October 31, 2022. Specifically, Organicsmart will develop a sensor-aware hybrid blockchain and distributed acyclic graph to securely track transactions and maintain quality for perishable foods throughout the supply...