This research project is part of the lighthouse project of the Bundesamt für Energy (Federal Ministry for Energy) ”Quartierstrom” (German for district power). We are building a decentralized electricity market where solar energy can be sold from neighbour to neighbour using blockchain technology. To secure future energy supply, [...]

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are a novel form of funding mechanism that is based on blockchain technology. While ICOs are already the dominating financing paradigm in the blockchain industry, they might also disrupt well-established industries that rely on traditional funding systems. ICOs are a recent phenomenon. [...]

Giving people ownership of the data they produce becomes more and more important in times of ever-growing capabilities to collect and analyze data of individuals. In light of this challenge, we show how blockchain technology can enable privacy by presenting an odometer fraud prevention system. [...]

The vision of an Internet of Things (IOT), in which every physical object can become part of the Internet is almost 25 years old. Only during the last years, due to the interplay of recent technologies like cloud computing, the unprecedented scale of the smart [...]