Blockchain technology researchers at the University of California-San Diego received around $800 thousand grant from the U.S. government.
National Science Foundation or NSF issued $818,433 to Subhashini Sivagnanam, a researcher and software architect with the Data Enabled Scientific Computing division. The grant is to develop the Open Science Chain or OSC, a proposed distributed ledger to efficiently access and verify data collected through scientific experiments.
The project is entitled "a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform built using distributed ledger technologies that allows researchers to provide metadata and verification information about their scientific datasets and update this information as the datasets change and evolve over time in an auditable manner."
The network would constitute a living and digital catalog of the researchers' work, which will grow as more information is developed and added.
According to the award letter, the grant will begin on September 1, 2018, and carry through until August 31, 2021.
In the previous years, NSF, the government organization, has funded a number of blockchain projects. They include projects focused on different aspects of cryptocurrency incentive mechanisms and blockchain technology use cases.
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