2nd Public Consultation

THE FUTURE BLOCKCHAIN AND DLT STANDARDISATION

PUBLIC CONSULTATION

The EU Standardisation Rolling Plan 2023 identifies Blockchain and DLT as a key vector for innovation in the Digital Single Market providing an infrastructure for trusted, decentralised and disintermediated services beyond the financial sector. This public consultation seeks to capture key priorities for industry in the development of this important infrastructure and to better understand where emerging standards can lend support and value.

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Are you registered with the StandICT.eu EU Standards Observatory (EUOS)? If yes, which TWG groups are you working with?

Yes

If you are registered with the StandICT.eu EU Standards Observatory (EUOS) which TWG groups are you working with?

SEEBLOCKS identifies the following features as foundational to the value and impact of blockchain and DLT technologies. Place in order of importance for your industry, sector or research area (drag and drop):

	Weight
Foundations (eg. reference architecture; terminology; taxonomy; ontology)	Weight for Foundations (eg. reference architecture; terminology; taxonomy; ontology)
Identity management (e.g., self-sovereignty; privacy; anonymity; account abstraction; secure wallet management)	Weight for Identity management (e.g., self-sovereignty; privacy; anonymity; account abstraction; secure wallet management)
Data provenance (e.g., on/off-chain data flows; data trustworthiness; verifiable oracle services/registries)	Weight for Data provenance (e.g., on/off-chain data flows; data trustworthiness; verifiable oracle services/registries)
Governance (e.g., stakeholder reputation including roles, rights and responsibilities; online voting; DAOs; peer-to-peer virtual communities)	Weight for Governance (e.g., stakeholder reputation including roles, rights and responsibilities; online voting; DAOs; peer-to-peer virtual communities)
Tokenisation, digital asset creation and exchange (e.g., cryptocurrency; virtual assets; fungible and non-fungible tokens; exchange protocols)	Weight for Tokenisation, digital asset creation and exchange (e.g., cryptocurrency; virtual assets; fungible and non-fungible tokens; exchange protocols)
Process optimisation (e.g., process transparency; multi-party, interoperable, cloud-based resource-sharing; 5G and mobile edge computing; energy-efficiency)	Weight for Process optimisation (e.g., process transparency; multi-party, interoperable, cloud-based resource-sharing; 5G and mobile edge computing; energy-efficiency)
Automation (e.g., smart contracts; intelligent agency; robotics)	Weight for Automation (e.g., smart contracts; intelligent agency; robotics)
Cybersecurity (e.g., open source, distributed and decentralised system architectures; end-point security; encryption; consensus mechanisms and applied game theory)	Weight for Cybersecurity (e.g., open source, distributed and decentralised system architectures; end-point security; encryption; consensus mechanisms and applied game theory)
Use Cases (e.g. generic and / or domain-specific use case collections)	Weight for Use Cases (e.g. generic and / or domain-specific use case collections)

Which aspects of EC policy, regulation and law will have the greatest relevance to the implementation of blockchain and DLT technologies in your opinion?

What is missing from the landscape that would enable wider adoption of Blockchain / DLT in the near future?

ROADMAP

Please classify the following blockchain and adjacent standardisation topics as short, medium and long-term priorities:

You can submit up to 3 options per category (up to 3 short-term, up to 3 long-term).

Questions	Short	Medium	Long
Interoperability between different blockchain networks	Short	Medium	Long
Smart Contract Security	Short	Medium	Long
Artificial Intelligence and blockchain (eg. governance and transparency layer on DLT)	Short	Medium	Long
CO2 footprint of blockchain and other high-compute services (eg Quantum computing, Training AI models)	Short	Medium	Long
Data exchange (eg. eIDAS2, SWIFT)	Short	Medium	Long
Data protection (eg. GDPR, EU AI ACT)	Short	Medium	Long
Electronic identification and trust services (e.g., related to EUDI – eIDAS2)	Short	Medium	Long
Decentralised Identity (eg. SSI, DID, eIDAS2)	Short	Medium	Long

Please specify the standardisation needs briefly

Questions	High	Middle	Low
Governance models to enable interoperability across the tech stack (Cloud Computing, Peer to Peer computing, Edge and fog computing)	High	Middle	Low
Standards for data formats and Interoperability (eIDAS2, SWIFT)	High	Middle	Low
Guidelines for security, privacy and access (DORA, GDPR, EU Digital Identity, eIDAS2)	High	Middle	Low

Are there interoperability problems of blockchain/DLT between the EU, the U.S. and Asia that could be addressed by standardisation?

Yes

Don't know

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Which additional measures should be undertaken by regulation (law) or voluntary standardisation (by the industry and other stakeholders) to support the interoperability of blockchain/DLT?

By regulation

By creating voluntary standards

Please specify

Are there needs for standards and/or regulations in the following areas to support blockchain/DLT?

CO2 footprint of blockchain

Yes

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Data exchange

Yes

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Electronic identification and trust services (EUDI – eIDAS2)

Yes

Please specify

Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) in Smart Contracts

Yes

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Which additional regulatory/policy support is needed for blockchain/DLT technologies?

If you have any further suggestions regarding blockchain/DLT technologies, standardisation and regulation or the SEEBLOCKS.eu project, please include them here.