Despite being beneficial, social media platforms experience many cyberattacks regularly. When it comes to data protection and privacy, blockchain technology is rapidly expanding to provide better security on these social media platforms.

Le 18 novembre 2021, des intervenants nationaux et internationaux de haut niveau approfondissent les avantages de la blockchain dans l'Industrie 4.0, l'économie circulaire et les industries créatives. Le ministre Franz Fayot ouvrira la conférence Blockchain avec un discours.

Infrachain-led consortium was among the applicants selected to participate in the prototyping phase of the "Trust My Data" call for solutions by the Gov Tech Lab Luxembourg. The consortium includes Infrachain, Compellio, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and Talao. Applicants had to submit solution proposals for digitizing and securing the exchange of state-certified data. The solution developed by the consortium is based on the integration of Talao’s wallet with Compellio’s DLT Gateway.

On 5th and 6th October, Edda Luxembourg, InTech, Let’sFixID, Neofacto, The Backstreets Boys and The Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology (LIST), participated in the second edition of the Infrachain Challenge, the blockchain hackathon. 

Blockchain is best known as the innovative database technology that forms the foundation of almost all cryptocurrencies. It is an incorruptible, decentralized digital ledger. Blockchain stores sensitive data and publicly validates and distributes transactions in unalterable encrypted ledgers. It is decentralized, making it a fantastic instrument in banking and finance to make international payments, improve capital markets, and streamline trade finance deals. However, blockchain can be used across other industries for other purposes as well. Here are five of them.

Le 16 septembre 2021, Claude Meisch, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, et Marc Hansen, ministre délégué à la Digitalisation, ont présenté la nouvelle procédure de demande des prêts étudiant accordés par l'État luxembourgeois.?

Luxembourg bank Spuerkeess joined forces with SnT in 2018 to investigate how they address the security of blockchain based services, as an important step towards understanding and managing the risks of real world blockchain deployments. It’s a multi-faceted project that will end in March 2022, but – as a side achievement – their research has revealed insights into a popular and unethical practice seen in the blockchain that hosts Ethereum, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency. The team has identified that at least $18.4 million has been syphoned off using so-called ‘frontrunning’ methods, when experimentally validating their developed solution.