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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $994,567 to Corsha, Inc. to develop solutions for scaling distributed ledger technology (DLT) to meet the needs of enterprise-level cybersecurity and financial applications. The key objectives are to 1) create algorithms for context-aware transaction compression pruning and 2) enable dynamic scaling of deployed DLT platforms. This research...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $150,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to study the design and implementation of a new class of smart contracts for blockchain-based financial transactions and supply chain applications. The project, titled "EAGER: SYNTHESIZING AND OPTIMIZING DECLARATIVE SMART CONTRACTS," aims to develop "DESCO," a declarative smart...
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 $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships project grant will fund the development of security gateway processing software for a digital currency ledger system. Awarded to National Currency Technologies Inc. on March 15, 2023, the project aims to enable a more inclusive and accessible public-facing digital currency platform. Specifically, the company will program a multicore processor with different security checks to efficiently process large volumes of...
This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships), aims to develop massively parallel protocols for software-based wireless systems. The $273,383 award, granted on September 15, 2023, will enable Lutris, Inc., the for-profit awardee, to demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity computing hardware and specially designed software to implement radio processing tasks at high speed. This approach has the potential...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Grayskytech, Inc. aims to develop a novel technology that will dramatically improve the speed and cost-effectiveness of integrated circuit (IC) design verification. The innovation involves a highly parallel, configurable computer architecture that can effectively turn a single FPGA into hundreds of fast virtual processors. This will enable 30x faster behavioral...
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...