LIONS: Ledger Innovation and Operation Network for Sovereignty

The interdisciplinary research project LIONS is building a research platform for the research of distributed ledger technology as a technology of digitization to increase resilience and digital sovereignty. The project is a cooperation between Universities of the Bundeswehr in Munich and Hamburg, and is part of the German dtech.bw research programme.

LIONS is building up technical and analytical expertise, providing a laboratory environment with infrastructure for DLT of a realistic size, and building a community of the German Armed Forces, public authorities and the private sector. Indicators and tools for the analysis, design and implementation of DLT-based information systems and their contribution to resilience and digital sovereignty are developed, taking into account three analytical perspectives: (1) individual, (2) supply chain and (3) society. 

PACY lab contributes with research expertise in decentralised cryptography and cybersecurity towards the technical realisation of a decentralised certificate management infrastructure for sovereign digital supply chains, with a particular focus on the use case behind decentralised secure code updates.