nChain Event
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V.1.3.1
  • nChain Event User Guide
  • Overview
    • Introduction
      • Target Audience
    • Features and Benefits
      • Independent Operations
      • Web3 Development
    • Core Concepts
    • Encoded and Unencoded Records
  • Using nChain Event
    • Initial Set-Up
  • Independent Records
    • Introduction
    • Functional Description
      • Write Record
      • Read Record
      • Verify Record
    • Use Cases
      • Lucky Number Tickets
      • Internet of Things (IoT) Data
      • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Evidence
      • Car Dealership
    • Tutorials
      • Data Integrity
    • API Workflow
      • Write Record
      • Get Location Status
      • Read Record
      • Verify Record
  • Linked Records
    • Introduction
      • Concept - Link Locations
    • Functional Description
      • Create Link Record
      • Read Link Record
      • Update Link Record
      • Delete Link Record
      • Verify Link Record
    • Use Cases
      • Luxury Handbag Provenance
    • Tutorials
      • Collection Integrity
      • Provenance Integrity
    • API Workflow
      • Create Link Record
      • Get Link Location Status
      • Read Link Record
      • Update Link Record
      • Delete Link Record
      • Verify Link Record
  • API Documentation
    • nChain Event API
  • Bitcoin SV Blockchain
    • Features and Benefits
    • Writing to Blockchain
    • Reading from Blockchain
    • Transaction Format
    • Troubleshooting
    • Glossary
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  1. Overview

Features and Benefits

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The key features and benefits that nChain Event provides include:

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

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

  • Encoding of records to keep them private. See .

  • 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 .

  • 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.

Independent Records API Workflow
Linked Records API Workflow
Encoded and Unencoded Records
Linked Records