Project Grant DESC0017238

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...

Moka Blox LLC received a $255,916 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a distributed ledger technology machine learning platform for blockchain warehousing. The award aims to create a new framework to overcome limitations in centralized data storage, homogeneous data formats, and tightly coupled workflows that challenge large-scale databases and data warehouses used in applications such as machine learning...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $599,707 supports research towards trustworthy and performant decentralized resource markets in the blockchain era under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The University of Connecticut will develop novel frameworks to promote scalability and efficiency of blockchain-based resource markets, including a secure architecture for sidechains with dependency relationships to the main blockchain that enable...

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 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a new academic program at Jackson College to prepare students to work as blockchain technicians. The $349,846 award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, will fund the creation of four dedicated blockchain courses, two stackable micro-credentials, and integration of the blockchain curriculum into existing programs. The goal is to address the growing demand...

This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the development of a blockchain ecosystem and artificial intelligence to optimize prior authorization processes in the pharmaceutical industry. Red Oak Strategic LLC will leverage distributed ledger technology to create an encrypted, decentralized patient data sharing network among prescribers, payers, and patients. Smart contracts will automate criteria fulfillment, facilitate machine learning-based...

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research towards developing permissioned blockchain infrastructure for mobile internet applications from October 2021 through September 2024. The NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication...

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...

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...