Part of the Russian state Corporation “rostec” national center of Informatization (NCI) and the company Vostok signed an agreement under which Vostok will develop blockchain-products, and the NCI – their integration into a working information system corporate, government and municipal customers of the partner company in Russia: Sberbank, “Transmashholding”, the web.Russia, “Rostec”, etc. the Total project could exceed 1 billion rubles.
In the ntsi consider such cooperation as an opportunity for development of competences in implementation of breakthrough blockchain technologies at different levels.
“…We see the request from customers on testing and implementation of these technologies. Therefore, we chose as a supplier of distributed solutions Vostok as a company with internationally recognized expertise in blockchain systems…”, – said General Director of NCI Konstantin Solodukhin.
It also became known that the pilot test blockchain products Vostok will begin in Nizhny Novgorod region. The Governor of the region Gleb Nikitin and the General Director of Vostok Alexander Ivanov has signed the agreement, according to which with their help will be to control the spending of budget funds. Those products the blockchain platform that has successfully completed pilot tests, and show the economic and technological efficiency, will be introduced in urban governance and management in Nizhny Novgorod region.
“…The blockchain technology experts expect a significant breakthrough in these areas. Therefore, we chose the company Vostok to test in practice the possibilities of the blockchain solutions and to learn from world-leading experience in this sphere”, – said Nikitin.
Recall that in September last year, rostec and Vostok began a collaboration to create a project office with an investment of $2 million to implement blockchain technology in the infrastructure of the digital economy in the framework of implementation of projects of the program “the Digital economy of the Russian Federation”. And at the end of December, the project has attracted Waves Platform for the launch of blockchain-system Vostok $120 million In the second investment round in the first half of 2019 it is planned to sell 20% of its own tokens VST. With 3% VST will be distributed among the holders of Waves tokens with airdrop.
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