UNICEF's Venture Arm Trials Ethereum Smart Contracts
The venture arm of the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) is expanding its exploration of blockchain to include ethereum.
The venture arm of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is expanding its exploration of blockchain to include ethereum.
UNICEF, as previously reported by CoinDesk, has spent much of the past year weighing whether blockchain can assist in its mission of improving the lives of children across the globe. The agency's work with the technology forms part of a broader effort within the UN to apply blockchain in various use cases.
The latest trial, according to a recent blog post, is to test new ways of sending transactions, including the use of smart contracts – self-executing pieces of code that operate on top of a blockchain. More specifically, the focal point of the trial is on the use of multi-signature contracts.
The agency has also made public the ethereum address being used for the test, which reveals that the agency conducted a number of transactions over the weekend.
In the blog post, UNCIEF software developer Qusai Jouda provided some background for the project, writing: