Leading cybersecurity company WISeKey International Holding Ltd today announced a project to establish a join Swiss China Blockchain Centre of Excellence to deploy a trusted blockchain as a service platform in China.

This dedicated center of excellence will conduct research, rapid pilot prototyping, co-creation of use cases and IP creation on blockchain technology and platforms. It will recommend a blockchain platform to facilitate enterprises to swiftly adopt and on-board blockchain-based solutions and services.

The company said that it will work with experts in industry, government, and academia to address businesses’ most relevant blockchain developments with practical, standards-based solutions using available blockchain technologies.

WISeKey received a delegation from Beijing INTO Global Business Communications, a company that connects Chinese tech investors with global innovative companies. A delegation of top Chinese tech investors and entrepreneurs visited WISeKey’s headquarters in Geneva with senior executives from CITIC Fund, Ventureslab, Sinodata, Insightcredit, Chinese Youth Angel Association, Weshare Finance, Joy Capital and many others. WISeKey said that it will work with this highly active and diverse group on the Swiss China Blockchain Center of Excellence.

The company will cooperate with local Chinese companies participating at the center on building points of view, proof of concepts, policies, educational materials including addressing all the distributed ledger capabilities across different blockchain schemes (public, consortium and private), with industry verticalization and domain specialization (IoT, transactions, messaging, etc.), underpinned by the best underlying technologies from startups, its key partners and from the community.