{"id":78096,"date":"2018-08-23T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=78096"},"modified":"2019-11-07T02:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:44:23","slug":"canadian-government-debuts-ethereum-blockchain-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/canadian-government-debuts-ethereum-blockchain-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Government Debuts Ethereum Blockchain Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s National Research Council has\u00a0launched a new Ethereum blockchain explorer for public use, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Move Toward Transparency<\/h2>\n

The development is one of the world\u2019s first instances of a country building an explorer platform, and the new blockchain explorer will be used to provide the public transparency to government frameworks, specific to grants and contributions. The platform was developed by the NRC\u2019s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP<\/a>), coded by blockchain firm Bitaccess<\/a>\u00a0and is hosted on cloud-based Interplanetary File System (IPFS).<\/p>\n

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Related: Bank of Canada: Double Spending is \u201cUnrealistic\u201d in Blockchain Technology<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Industry observers have termed the IPFS as an \u201cimmutable, distributed supplement\u201d to the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)\u2013the globally used internet network. The former is said to enable a more secure, transparent and less centralized internet than the latter.<\/p>\n

NRC further explains that IPFS fundamentally operates as a peer-to-peer method of data transfer and storage, with the capacity to host web applications protected by robust immutability.<\/p>\n

Related to the development, Bitaccess published<\/a> a statement explaining how to utilize the blockchain explorer efficiently to swiftly locate datasets\u2013grants and contributions\u2013embedded by the government on the Ethereum<\/a> blockchain.<\/p>\n

Blockchain Experiments Proving Technology's Prowess<\/h2>\n

Moe Adham, co-founder of Bitaccess, highlighted that the framework enables institutions to become wholly-transparent while empowering participants to verify and validate all public information.<\/p>\n

Adham added:<\/p>\n

“We built the [IPFS] as a simple, low risk, application for institutions to get introduced to blockchain technology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In January 2018, the Canadian government had its first brush with blockchain technology when it launched a public blockchain prototype to administer government contracts.<\/p>\n

At the time, the development was more experimental, with the NRC working on several use cases, alongside the newly-released framework, to provide quantifiable, sharable information with the public using a blockchain network.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the NRC concluded its ambitious announcement by noting that its experiments are \u201cexpected to provide constructive insights\u201d with regard to the future of blockchain while creating a more transparent ecosystem for citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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