Technology topic
Distributed Ledger (DL)
The Distributed Ledger topic area covers a wide range of technology areas of current and emerging commercial significance and impact spanning all areas of distributed ledgers, including blockchains, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and related capabilities (cryptography, smart contracts, etc.). Applications of these technologies and approaches across any range of industries and commercial uses are appropriate for this topic area. Proposed projects should involve novel, distinctive approaches and/or disruptive innovations with high potential impact and competitive advantages in their field of use. These subtopic areas are meant to serve as examples of what entrepreneurs may propose in this space; all distributed ledger proposals with technical innovation and significant commercial potential are welcome, regardless of the specific area of focus of the project.
Subtopics are not aimed at supporting or conducting clinical trials, clinical efficacy or safety studies, the development pre-clinical or clinical-stage drug candidates or medical devices, or work performed primarily for regulatory purposes. Limited studies with human subjects may be acceptable to the extent that they are performed in support of feasibility, such as proof-of-concept studies of early-stage technologies. Proposals that request support for clinical studies will be deemed noncompliant with the SBIR/STTR solicitations and returned without review.
Sub-Topics
DL1. Autonomous Systems and Economies, and Smart Contracts
DL2. Blockchain, DAGs, and Next-Gen Protocols
DL3. Convergence with Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence
DL4. Convergence with Internet of Things, Crowdsourcing and Crowdsensing
DL5. Cryptography, Security, and Cybersecurity
DL6. Digital Assets
DL7. Distributed Consensus and Fault Tolerance Mechanisms
DL8. Distributed Ledger in Edge and Cloud Computing
DL9. Distributed Ledger Interoperability
DL10. Distributed Ledger in Network Architecture and Management
DL11. Financial Technologies
DL12. Human-to-Technology Interfaces and Decentralized Applications (dApps)
DL13. Scalability Solutions and Accumulators
DL14. Trusted Identity and Identity Management
DL15. Other Distributed Ledger Technologies