slock.it is an innovative, award-winning German company, with its roots in the original development of the Ethereum blockchain technology. In 2019, slock.it was acquired by Blockchains, marking the start of a strong partnership to bring the benefits of public blockchain to the masses. Using blockchain technology, we help the Internet of Things (IoT) environment in its technological foundation by providing the IoT layer to power secure and interoperable transactions between machines and humans and by enabling the economy of things. We love blockchain technology and IoT and our mission is to build the enabling technology to make the Internet of Things secure yet interoperable.

Main sectors: Supply Chains & Logistics

Main applications: New Products/Services;
Tracking of goods, supply chain, IoT

Established in: 2015

URL: https://slock.it/

Organisation: slock.it GmbH

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – SME

Founders: Christoph Jentzsch; Simon Jentzsch; Stephan Tual

Partners: N/A

Country: Germany

City: Mittweida

Stage of project: Live

Geographical reach: N/A

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: IoT / Smart Appliances / Wearables

Whitepaper: N/A

Github: https://github.com/slockit

Twitter: https://twitter.com/slockitproject/

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.