SHIELD

Smart contracts (SC) are transforming how we can enhance automated public services and how the services are executed and controlled in digital ecosystems. Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is a new AI paradigm that uses distributed device computing resources to improve data privacy. It is natural to combine SC and DAI to address challenging research issues, including data privacy, security, and network scalability, thus fostering efficient and responsible actions for reliable digital transformation ecosystems in smart cities and novel energy management models. Although promising, there is no high-level reference framework for designing novel SC/DAI-driven solutions and benchmarking testbeds for essential use cases and scaling their implementation internationally. The SHIELD project will offer a new SC/DAI-driven holistic, security, and privacy service architecture and apply it to important use cases in blockchain network ecosystems and smart city/smart energy case studies.