Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Federal Blockchain Argentina advances to support critical state processes

Interest in the platform, which had a sort of "standstill" in the government transition at the end of 2019, increased since the start of the pandemic due to the need to endorse bureaucratic procedures. In the coming months, the provinces of Formosa and Catamarca will join the public administrations that currently use the BFA.

The potential of document verification and the guarantee of its inalterability in a federal and non-profit environment increasingly attracts public organizations, academics and private companies to the Blockchain Federal Argentina (BFA) (Argentine Federal Blockchain). Interest in the platform, which had a sort of "standstill" in the government transition at the end of 2019, has increased since the start of the pandemic, due to the need to endorse bureaucratic procedures, and the provinces of Formosa and Catamarca will join in the next two months to the only two public administrations that currently use the BFA, the City of Buenos Aires and Neuquén.

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