Features and Benefits

The key features and benefits that nChain Event provides include:

• Documented and testable REST API enabling easy integration by non-blockchain engineers. See Independent Records API Workflow and Linked Records API Workflow.

• Registration of any type of data records on the blockchain to facilitate trust in them.

• Encoding of records to keep them private. See Encoded and Unencoded Records.

• Optional unencoded* records globally providing accessibility and transparency.

• Production of the blockchain record location which can be used by third-party tools, avoiding vendor lock-in.

• Status of the blockchain writing process enabling easy error handling, and evidence of record content and time-stamp.

• Read and verification of records, without requiring any other tools.

• Optional linked records that support sets, provenance, logs, histories, chronicles, journals, audit trails, tickets, certificates and other documents. See Linked Records.

• The ability to pass linked record authorship to another party in a consortium, enabling multi-party collaboration.

Note: * Unencoded records available by prior arrangement with nChain

Please see the last section about using the blockchain.