The Center’s mission is to be the one-stop-shop Austrian Research Center for Blockchain (and related) technologies to be applied in industrial applications like industry 4.0 / IoT as well as financial, energy, logistics, government and administrative applications. Those new applications and business models resulting from collaborations between established players, innovative startups and top R&D institutes will be the key for the creation of new jobs and establishing Austria among the top ten innovative countries in Europe.
Together with our scientific partners we provide services for a wide variety of industries ranging from Financial Services to Manufacturing. Our research is partially funded under the COMET program of the Austrian Federal Financing Agency.
From the generation of a first idea to clear concepts. We help you identify Blockchain usecases in your company.
We are happy to assist you in applying for and carrying out funded research projects.
We run workshops and courses from in-house trainings to larger corporate events.
We see our clients as partners and involve them in the projects in a way that an optimal technology transfer can take place.
We aim to advance the understanding of Blockchain from cryptography to legal aspects.
We offer non-funded innovation projects, also to continue funded projects or to be free from funding guidelines.
We offer applied and strategic research supported under the COMET program of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.
We offer regular seminars and conferences for the dissemination of expertise and knowledge.
Our center provides interdisciplinary research across the following areas
addresses the technical and theoretical foundations of distributed ledger technology. The area will also address technical aspects of different types of Blockchains and “Non-Blockchains”, Smart Contracts and transparency on the Blockchain.
addresses new business models, economic potentials and problems. The area will study economic questions that arise in any peer-to-peer system and investigate DLT based decentralized business models in specific application domains.
focuses on the technological aspects of Blockchains in Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. The convergence of Blockchain with emerging technologies in those fields will be at the centre of the activities
investigates and develops scalable data science methods, tools and services that contribute to a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of blockchain-based ecosystems and environments.
aims to address legal questions arising under current legislation including matters of private, public and tax law, tries to address concepts and suggestions for future legal frameworks and starts to analyse further political implications.
We are an application-oriented research organisation and thus focused on the needs of companies. A selection of our company partners can be found here.
The COMET centre ABC – Austrian Blockchain Center is funded within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies by BMK, BMDW and the provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Vorarlberg. The COMET programme is managed by FFG.
On March 6, 2020, our scientific partner St. Pölten UAS hosted the Blockchain Summit. In addition to exciting talks and discussions we have opened our new location in Lower Austria.
The Austrian Blockchain Center (ABC) together with the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber initiated the Austrian Blockchain Award for the first time this year. The Austrian Blockchain Award aims to honour outstanding and unique blockchain projects that demonstrate a sustainable business model, proven practical suitability and disruptive application possibilities.