Founded in 2015, grounded in the firm belief that Bitcoin and blockchain technology can transform the world, the nChain Licensing team conducted our extensive research around three core values of Web3: Security, data ownership and direct exchange of value. Over the years, the team has been creating the building blocks for the next generation of internet. Our intellectual property enables entrepreneurs and developers to build innovative solutions more efficiently to meet fast-changing business needs.
Dr Owen Vaughan
Chief Science Officer, nChain Licensing
“We have a vision for a human-centric future network powered by a global public blockchain, and the knowledge and skills to turn it into reality.”
Our passionate and talented team of scientists, researchers and developers are at the cutting edge of research in scalable public blockchain technology. With offices in London, UK and Zug, Switzerland, we deliver white papers, patent applications, academic publications, conference presentations and working prototypes. Our mission is innovation, with our most promising ideas transformed into practical world solutions for clients worldwide.
Explore our featured publications
Practical Implementation of Pairing-Based zkSNARK in Bitcoin Script
Federico Barbacovi, Enrique Larraia, Paul Germouty, and Wei Zhang
GOvNet: a Blockchain Overlay Network for Governments and Privacy-Oriented Applications
Luigi Lunardon and Alessio Pagani
How to Redact the Bitcoin Backbone Protocol
Mehmet Sabir Kiraz, Enrique Larraia, and Owen Vaughan
Universal Blockchain Assets
Owen Vaughan
Bitcoin-Powered IoT Networks for Climate Change Research: a Peer-to-Peer Micro-Payment System to Enhance Data Collection
Maria Eugenia Lopez, John Murphy, Alessio Pagani
IPv6 Bitcoin-Certified Addresses
Mathieu Ducroux
A Private and Efficient Triple-Entry Accounting Protocol on Bitcoin
Liuxuan Pan, Owen Vaughan, Craig Wright
Miner ID: Facilitating bitcoin as a service
Wei Zhang
NFT Trades in Bitcoin with Off-chain Receipts
Mehmet Sabir Kiraz, Enrique Larraia, Owen Vaughan
Using the Singular Value Decomposition to Generate Composite NFTs
Jack Davies, Craig Wright
Secure Decentralized Learning with Incentives on UTXO-based Blockchains
Luigi Lunardon
Publicly Verifiable Auctions with Privacy
Paul Germouty, Enrique Larraia, Wei Zhang
Bitcoin-Based Bill of Lading
Bassem Ammar, Craig Wright, Liuxuan Pan, Wei Zhang
Private Timestamps and Selective Verification of Notarised Data on a Blockchain
Enrique Larraia, Owen Vaughan
Immutable Livestock Tracking and Compliance Logs Using Blockchain
Maria Eugenia Lopez
A Blockchain-Based Welfare Distribution Model for Digital Inclusivity
Chloe Tartan
Benford's Wallet
Chloe Tartan, Owen Vaughan, Craig Wright, Wei Zhang
IPv4 and IPv6 for Blockchain Networks: A Comparative Analysis
Jack Davies, Alessio Pagani
Data Streaming over Bitcoin Payment Channels
Jack Davies, Wei Zhang
QUIC Bitcoin: Fast and Secure Peer-to-Peer Payments and Payment Channels
Alessio Pagani
PUSHTX and its Building Blocks
Wei Zhang
Cashbacks falling from the sky: Can retail CBDC rollout widen central banks’ toolkit?
Zamid Aligishiev and Vlad Skovorodov
Efficient Threshold-Optimal ECDSA
Michaella Pettit
A Scalable Bitcoin-based Public Key Certificate Management System
Chloe Tartan, Craig Wright, Michaella Pettit, Wei Zhang
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs): A New Frontier in Supply Chain Product and Asset Tracking
Jack Davies, Yingli Wang
