A Public & Permissioned Infrastructure Using Blockchain ...Alastria - A Public & Permissioned Infrastructure Using Blockchain 1 MARIA PARGA & MONTSERRAT GUARDIA, VICEPRESIDENTS ALASTRIA

Alastria - A Public & Permissioned Infrastructure Using Blockchain

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MARIA PARGA & MONTSERRAT GUARDIA, VICEPRESIDENTS ALASTRIA

3rd Blockchain for Finance Conference, Europe October 2-4, Dublin, Ireland

Alastria is a non-profit association that

promotes the digital economy in Spain

through the development of blockchain.

Alastria is a point of confluence.

DIGITAL ECONOMY

Alastria seeks to democratize access to

blockchain by making available to

developers the necessary tools to access

technology, adopt it and use it.

BLOCKCHAIN DEMOCRATIZATION

Alastria provides Spanish society with a

basic blockchain infrastructure, the

Alastria Network, and a digital identity

standard, the ID Alastria, which allows

transactions on the Network to have

legal validity.

ALASTRIA NETWORK

Alastria is a pioneering project that

encourages innovation anticipating the

possible interest of Spanish society for

the use of services and products based

on blockchain.

PIONEER PROJECT

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Alastria : Mission & Vision

Alastria Key Elements

The Pillars of Alastria

Alastria has positioned itself

during 2018 as one of the

leaders in the development of

Blockchain technology in

Europe.

• The Alastria Network

• Adoption of a unified and approved R&D protocol.

• The value proposal of the Network is shared by all consortium partners.

• The deployment & operation of nodes boosts innovation and research

through the partners and within the partners.

• ID Project

• A theoretical model was approved to give shape to the project.

• The validation and testing of the protocol used is a clear challenge

for the consortium.

• We have a proposal to create a European standard.

• The Consortium

• Building a multi-sectoral association with a national vision & purpose

and a strong cooperation spirit.

• Identifying local talent and promoting methods & tools for their growth

to excel through the local ecosystems of Innovation (ECOs).

Alastria stands out as a key

collaboration channel between

the regulatory authorities and

the Blockchain innovation

ecosystem.

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A non-for-profit consortium established by a group of leading companies and institutions in Spain:

To build a multi-sector semi-public permissioned Blockchain fully compliant with existing law, over which partners can build and deploy services.

Facilitate the understanding and use of Blockchain throughout the whole social and economical ecosystem.

Regulators and key stakeholders are encouraged to participate

What is Alastria?

Key choices

Public Permissioned + Digital ID (SSI) compatible with regulation

Permissioned high performance

Tokenization digitalization

Collaboration large and small innovation

Building a multi-sector semi-public Blockchain consortium

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Members of the Consortium

21,8%

13,0%

6,7%

6,0% 5,6% 4,9% 4,6%

4,6%

3,9% 3,5% 3,5% 2,8%

2,8% 2,8%

2,8% 2,8% 2,1% 2,1% 1,4% 1,4% 0,4% 0,4%

Consulting & ITAssociation / ClusterCitizen services / Public AdministrationUniversityLegal, LegaltechEngineering, Construction &/or Real StateInnovation / Technological Research CenterBanking & Financial ServicesFinancial Services, FintechEnergy: Oil & Gas / UtilitiesTelecomFoundationBlockchain CompanyConsultingPR, Communication, Accelators & EventsInsuranceDigital MarketingDigital Signature & IdentityEdutechElectrical/Electronic Components & ConectivityTravel & LeisureRetail

Since Oct 2017 Alastria is growing +20 members/month. Started by an Entrepreneur, and the Banking & Finance, Energy, Education, and Consulting leading firms, during all 2018 other Spanish industry key sectors SMEs and large companies are joining Alastria.

284 members on Sept 4th, 2018

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20%

6%

39%

35%

Distribution by size:

Large

Medium

Small

Institutions

Members by Size & Location

52%

17%

9%

5%

4%

4% 4% 2% 1% 1% 1%

By location: Madrid

Cataluña y Baleares

Andalucia

C.Valenciana

Castilla y León, CastillaLa Mancha

Galicia

Pais Vasco y Navarra

Cantabria

Asturias

Aragón

Canarias

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Over 310 members on Oct 4th, 2018

Almost all Spanish regions are present.

A very diverse consortium: 74% SMEs companies + the Institutions, and 26% of medium & large companies covering almost all IBEX 35. New Segments joining: Health, Pharmacy, Tourism, Travel & Leisure, Mobility, Supply Chain.

Alastria projection of a Larger Ecosystem

Investors Venture Capitalists Investment funds Business Angels

Companies Ecosystems Technology Parks Co-

working Centres Promotion centres

Start Ups Accelerators

Corporate Builders Venture Builders

Conventions with different organizations (not including public administration)

Academy & Research Training centres

Research centres

• Possibility to collaborate

actively in the

deployment of Iocal

innovation ecosystems

(ECO's)

• Access to the

ecosystem of

companies and centers

associated with Alastria

• Possibility of being a

partner of Alastria

without quota payment,

as long as services or

commercial activities are

not provided.

• Collaboration &

participation in the

development of the

Blockchain Research

Plan of Alastria

• Access to the ecosystem

of companies and centers

associated with Alastria

• Alastria will collaborate in

the programming and

preparation of curricula

related to the development

of DLTs

• Access to the Alastria

ecosystem to identify

investment initiatives

(qualified lead pipe

improvement) or

collaboration that may

interest their investees.

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Board of Directors

Commissions

High-level Organisation

Maximum governing body of the

Association, ultimately responsible

for decision making.

Committee

Group of experts in which the

Board delegates the supervision

and decision making of specific

topics.

Group of volunteers who are

responsible for the execution of

specific tasks on behalf of the

association.

Dedicated Teams

Team hired and paid by the

association.

The teams commit to execute the

mandates of the association.

GOVERNMENT

OPERATIONS

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Commissions & Working groups

01 Public Administrations

02 Innovation & Talent

03 Standards

04 Legal

05 Research & Technology Transfer

06 Resilience

07 Platform

08 Identity

09 NGOs - 3rd Sector

Internal Consortium

management :

10 Members

11 Communication

12 Finance

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Organization factor key: The Human Factor

COLLABORATION

All associates can participate as part of any of commission and working groups either as active participant or as an observer. A newsletter is published each week. Most meetings are remotely attended but once a month there is on-site.

01 Public Administrations

INTERNATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

INNOVATION

HUB &

SANDBOX

DIVULGATIVE

PROGRAM

REGULATORS

PLAN

• Coordinated plan for

the promotion of

different Public

Administrations,

according to the

established

prioritization.

• Identification of use

cases.

• Financing plans for

the aforementioned

use cases.

• Definition of regulatory

collaboration scenarios.

• Sector plan.

• Support digital identity.

• Plan execution.

• Definition of the

sandbox model

• Analysis of the model

• Sandbox

implementation.

• Identification of grants

aimed at boosting the

consortium's capacity.

• Synergies and

construction of the

technological core in

the ecosystem

• Join efforts with the

European Commission

for the common

European Blockchain

infrastructure workline.

1. Public Administrations Commission – Lines of Work

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2. Congress of Deputies

1. Main Conventions 3. Regulators

• Treasury General Secretariat

• Fiscal Studies Institute

• CNMV (secondary market supervisor)

• ICO (Official Credit Institute)

• Digital Agenda

• Government of Aragon

• EJIE (Basque Government)

• City Council of Madrid (in process)

• General Treasury Social Security

• Meetings with adjunct spokespeople of

the Digital Agenda

• Meetings with Parliamentary Groups.

• Participation of Alastria in the first inter-

parliamentary meeting on Emerging

Technologies in the Congress.

• Digital Agenda (Standards)

• Bank of Spain

• CNMV

• CNE (National Energy Commission)

• MINECO (Ministry of Economy,

Industry and Competitiveness)

• Data Protection Agency

• Tax agency

• European Commission:

coordination with Blockchain

Observatory & Forum

• Blockchain ecosystem

convergence project in Latin

America with IDB/FOMIN

• Dedicated team to access grants

1. Public Administrations Commission – Milestones

4. Internationalisation

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02 Innovation & Talent

2. Innovation & Talent Commission – Lines of Work

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Create, in collaboration with the

educational centers in their

geographical area, Blockchain training

programs adapted to the different target

profiles (Managers, IT, Lawyers, etc).

Facilitate agreements with prestigious

accelerators for the development of

Open Innovation programs.

Reach out to business associations to

attract partners that could launch "local

flavor“ challenges to their community.

Represent Alastria in the local

innovative ecosystem.

1. Professional certifications

2. Conventions with Universities

• CCII Convention

• Launched Blockchain Training for

Executives with BLOCKCHAIN

ESPAÑA.

• Training for Developers launched by

UNIR

Signature of the Convention with the General

Council of Professional Associations of

Computer Engineering (CCII)

Signed:

Universidad CEU San Pablo

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Universidad de Sevilla

UNIR

Universidad de Málaga

Universidad de Granada

Universidad de Córdoba

Universidad Europea

Universidad la Florida en Valencia

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Universidad de Salamanca

…..

3. Open innovation programs

• Designed the structure.

• Launched the first program

in June 2018.

4. Workshops & Hackathons

Goals:

• Discover what is being done

from the Blockchain

community around the world

and explore the added value

for Alastria.

• Work new libraries to develop

different types of dApps.

First workshops and Hackathons

on Blockchain & IOT.

2. Innovation & Talent Commission – Milestones

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03 Standards

2. The White Paper for the European Commission

in preparation at CEN / CENELEC identifies

Alastria as one of the two examples of

Blockchain infrastructure with which a future

Blockchain public infrastructure should

interoperate

3. During the plenary of ISO TC 307 in London,

the representatives of France, Italy and Portugal,

with the knowledge of the representative of the

European Commission, expressed their interest in

promoting a future Spanish standard to the

European standard on the basis of the digital

identity model of Alastria.

1. The General Secretariat of the Treasury accepts

the invitation to chair the Commission

4. Proposal for the creation of an Industry

Specification Group (ISG) in ETSI on Blockchain

and DLT:

• Identification of the members interested in the

group

• Drafting the Terms of Reference for the ISG

• Contacts with ETSI for the launch of the ISG at

the next meeting of the ETSI Board (September

2018)

5. Approval by Alastria’s Board of Directors of the

proposal to UNE to approve a Spanish standard

based on the digital identity model of Alastria.

3. Standards Commission – Milestones

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04 Legal

LEGAL SUPPORT TO

ALASTRIA PROJECTS

INTERNATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

INTERNAL LEGAL

SUPPORT

• Support the Board of Directors interpretation & compliance with the statues and the internal policies.

• Prepare drafts and proposals for new policies or modifications of existing ones

• Coordinate support in the elaboration of models of contracts and collaboration agreements Training support the Board of Directors and the Sponsors / Leaders of the Committees and Commissions in legal matters

• Collaborate with other Committees such as the Identity, Resilience and Public Admin.

• Legal support in the elaboration of standards proposals and basic operational guides of the Alastria Network

• Legal support in the delimitation of the scope of Alastria's role in relation to the operation of the Alastria Network and of the nodes operated by the associates

• Other legal support tasks related to Alastria projects

• Monitoring of international trends on regulatory impact in relation to Blockchain tech.

• Analyse the Blockchain impacts in the Spanish regulation of the different sectors of activity.

• Preparation of white papers • Training action on general or

sectoral legal topics • Support and promotion of a

favourable regulatory framework for a secure environment for Blockchain initiatives.

04 LEGAL

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05 Research & Tech Transfer

INTERACTION WITH

OTHER ALASTRIA

COMMISSIONS

UNIVERSITIES AND

INSTITUTIONS

SPANISH UNIVERSITIES

DEAN CONFERENCE

(CRUE)

Diffusion of Alastria and its investigative model Clarification of standards and requirements for regulated teaching Impulse of the model

Definition of research requirements

Validation of initiative of other commissions

Monitoring and control of compliance with requirements

Definition of awards and international research events

Promote Alastria as an infrastructure with which the future European public infrastructure should interoperate Participate visibly in the closing meeting of the first version in UNE (07/06/2018)

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5. Research & Tech Transfer Commission – Lines of Work

06 Resilience

VALIDATOR NODES CRISIS MANAGEMENT DEFENSE LINES

Diffusion of Alastria and its investigative model Clarification of standards and requirements for regulated teaching Impulse of the model

Definition of research requirements

Validation of initiative of other commissions

Monitoring and control of compliance with requirements

Definition of awards and international research events

Definition of the crisis management structure

Creation of a management model regarding the maturity of the resilience of the nodes

Crisis management test environment

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6. RESILIENCE – Lines of Work

07 Platform

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A Shared National Infrastructure for public & private sectors

Members collaborate on the infrastructure

Members compete on the applications

Physical world (objects) is also connected to the infrastructure

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National Infrastructure Use Case Requires Special Efforts…

Decentralized Centralized

Public networks (Bitcoin, Ethereum)

Public Permissioned network Private consortiums

Enterprise systems

Fully decentralized: everybody votes

Very decentralized (set of validators vote, with a “good enough” approach)

Vote only few Vote only one

3 - 10 transactions/sec High performance and scalability

(>1.000 tx/sec) High performance (100K tx/s)

PoW algorithm, requiring incentives to miners

More efficient algorithm (Istanbul BFT)

More efficient algorithms, without mining

High transaction costs, high volatility

Predictable, low transactional cost (no cryptocurrency embedded)

Low transaction costs, predictable

Alastria works on consensus, governance and identity to comply with the strong

requirements on legal compliancy, scalability, performance and trust

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Interoperability

Scalability

Sustainable operating

model

Privacy of Data and

Transactional Activity

Low transaction costs Governance Model

As much decentralized as

possible, remaining practical.

Using IBFT, with some

extensions to increase

decentralization and trust on

the network.

Low and predictable costs

correlated to infrastructure

costs, not to demand of some

cryptocurrency.

Proper economic motivation

model for validators, based on

cost recovery and with the

objective of low transaction

costs.

Facilitate implement privacy of

data and transactional activity

to applications.

But with traceability and

auditability.

Interoperability at different

levels: among technologies

(Quorum, Fabric, …), with

private consortiums, at

ontology level (eg. Identity).

Challenges

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08 Identity

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Self Sovereign Identity - SSI

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Alastria Id: an SSI inspired, GDPR compliant, Identity Management solution

•User Personal Data. Multi-Standard: http://schema.org/person

• Levels of Assurance (EIDAS)

Identifiers (Information)

• Level, LoA, EIDAS and interoperability agreements

• Issued by trusted third parties &entities participating Entities in the model

•Under user control

Attestations

•Need according to service (banking, administration, commerce..

•Generation of a history

•Under user control Claims

•Private: under user control, with capacity for recovery

•Public: user identifier, associated with the private key and the Alastria identity (Alastria ID).

Keys

Name

Address

Title

…

The Information

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09 NGOs - 3rd Sector

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LAUNCH

INTERNATIONAL

BLOCKCHAIN FOR

GOOD

CREATE NETWORK

WITHIN SPANISH

FOUNDATIONS

BE AWARE

IDENTIFY USE

CASES

• Detect critical

processes in third-

sector organizations

susceptible to use of

blockchain.

• Detect current or

potential use cases of

blockchain by

associations and

foundations

• Conducting a survey

between foundations to

detect critical

processes.

• Realization of new

sessions to disseminate

the uses of blockchain

in the third sector.

• Join efforts with the

European Commission

• Design of a case of

use/proof of concept to

identify the

counterpart/s in the

projects of international

cooperation

(traceability in the

application of the

funds).

9. NGOs - 3rd Sector – Lines of Work

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Next Steps

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ALASTRIA - LATAM

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BID

LATAM

Europe - Do you imagine Alastria-Europe?

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Inter-operability

Scalability

Governance Model

Sustainable

operating model

Privacy of Data and

Transactional Activity

Low Transactional

Cost

EU

NATIONAL TO INTERNATIONAL BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM

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GRACIAS, THANK YOU