Blockchain & Data Clean Rooms – GSBN & Decentriq partner to power the most innovative, secure and privacy-safe consortium in the global trade industry.
GSBN has dedicated itself in enabling the sharing of trusted shipping data to drive the digitisation of the industry and create value for all participants in the ecosystem. The GSBN platform is built upon blockchain technology and there is a strict access policy to govern the visibility of information by role. The policy as designed strictly follows a need-to-know basis. However certain scenarios require more complex data sharing processes than from a single data contributor. For instance, the current platform does not allow for aggregating data across many carriers or terminals. To solve this problem, GSBN has chosen to partner with Decentriq to bring best in-class data privacy technology to its blockchain consortium and to continue developing the most disruptive and innovative solution for the global trade economy.
Decentriq data clean rooms have been designed to address this very problem and are found exceptionally complementary to blockchain. In short, the Decentriq data clean room leverages a novel technology called confidential computing, providing a trusted execution environment at the hardware level, which no-one has access to. While the GSBN Blockchain platform provides a tamper-proof record of the hashes of the encrypted data being submitted in the clean room, Decentriq is able to guarantee secured and confidential processing of sensitive data even when it’s off-chain. In addition, the Decentriq platform allows for granular settings in the input, output, and the permission. This effectively introduces another layer of access control policy, which can be configured based on both roles and scenarios. The settings are viewable by all data contributors before submitting data to the clean room and agreed upon by all participants before the data clean room is published. Once it’s published, the settings cannot be changed without data contributors approval and all actions are logged so usage is restricted and monitored. By combining blockchain and Decentriq data clean room, GSBN can guarantee not only data integrity but also privacy, security and auditability during the whole data lifecycle: at rest, in transit and in use whether on-chain or off-chain.
GSBN is currently developing use cases with Decentriq such as the sharing of shipping activity insights from multiple shipping lines with financial institutions. By combining data clean rooms with the GSBN blockchain network, shipping lines can safely and effortlessly share their data insights without fear of disclosing the underlying sensitive details, and financial institutions would get the key insights that they need without having to devote extra resources to plow through the vast amount of data from heterogeneous data vendors.
Traditionally, any sharing of insights requires a tradeoff between privacy, convenience, and efficiency. Now, by combining the two technologies, GSBN and Decentriq are able to provide new insights without adding effort or time to both ends of the sharing while preserving maximum confidentiality. By marrying blockchain technology with confidential computing, we look forward to empowering financial institutions in their KYC and facility set up processes with aggregated insights derived from various carriers on our platform.
Many large industry players have joined or are expected to join the consortium, stay tuned for future announcements.
Quote from Edmund, CTO of GSBN: “Collaboration with Decentriq allows us to cover a wider range of data sharing scenarios and extend the use cases for our ecosystems beyond blockchain. We believe next generation of blockchain consortiums will combine blockchain technology with other emerging technologies, such as confidential computing, enabling the aggregation of data from different sources and converting them into valuable insights while keeping them safe and secure.”
Quote from Stefan, CTO of Decentriq: “Confidential Computing (CC) is emerging to an inevitable technology to protect data in active use. While CC solves many problems around data integrity and data confidentiality in a very elegant and scalable way, it lacks some strong security guarantees on data immutability and ordering. Blockchain is the perfect fit to fill those shortcomings. It is great to see those technologies getting fully integrated into a turn-key solution for revolutionising the global trade industry.”
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