XEETI Blockchain as a service

Blockchain technologies hold significant promise for research and open data ecosystems by enabling tamper-evident records, transparent provenance, decentralized trust, and reproducibility of scientific results. In principle, blockchain can support secure data sharing, verifiable workflows, and auditable access control across heterogeneous stakeholders. In practice, however, the deployment of blockchain infrastructures—particularly private, permissioned networks suitable for research contexts—remains complex and resource-intensive. It typically requires specialized expertise in distributed systems, cryptography, network governance, and security, as well as substantial operational and architectural overhead. These barriers have limited adoption beyond highly specialized teams.

To address these challenges, at Xeeti we have developed a service-based infrastructure that radically simplifies the integration of state-of-the-art private permissioned blockchain technology into existing research and open data projects. Rather than requiring bespoke deployments and expert-level configuration, Xeeti exposes blockchain capabilities through a well-documented and easy to use web-based service layer. Operators can integrate blockchain functionality within a few hours, not months and without the need for very specialized personnel or complex system architectures. Core features such as identity management, transaction submission, data anchoring, and auditability are provided by Xeeti out of the box as scalable web services. Xeeti lowers the technical and organizational barriers to adoption, enabling research institutions and data operators to leverage blockchain benefits while focusing on their domain-specific objectives rather than infrastructure complexity.