Did you know….
In 2018, the government of West Virginia piloted a blockchain-based mobile voting platform for troops overseas in the 2018 primary elections.
The purpose of this website
The BLING project developed 24 pilots, proof of concepts, and use cases that show how blockchain-enabled solutions will change how local and regional governments deliver local services and how they work with citizens. This website serves as a digital catalog of the project’s results and contains valuable insights that can help other public organization on their way to implement blockchain. Want to work with blockchain in government? Get started here:
- Browse through the lessons learned in our real-life use-cases. Use the filters to zoom in on the information of your interest.
- Fill out the ‘BRAT self-test’ to assess the blockchain readiness of your organisation. See how your organisation scores compared to benchmark scores.
- Moreover, get additional information based on your organization’s ‘readiness score’ and needs.
A random selection of our project results

Developing MultiKnip – A Dutch cross-service delivery tool leveraging blockchain
Province of Drenthe
MultiWallet aims to provide a generic platform that works across local governments to enable more targeted and more joined up service delivery. This is a new way of working that could enable the targeting of specific groups with services that the users are ‘pre–qualified’ to receive.

Bringing design, blockchain, and computer science together
External
Dave Murray Rust from TU Delft looks at the challenges of linking blockchain systems with the ‘messy and interesting’ real world, and how smart contracts built on blockchains can enable new types of location-based services.

The EU Legislation and Blockchain
The County Administrative Board of Skåne
An overview of current EU policy and regulation with regards to blockchain technology, summarising the most oft-discussed challenges related to blockchain technology vis-a-vi EU legislation, and highlighting some of these challenges with case law in EU member states.