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Technical deep-dives, product updates, and best practices for decentralized research data management.

Introducing Bio-DID-Sequencer: Decentralized Identifiers for Research Data

Learn how Bio-DID-Sequencer revolutionizes research data management with W3C-compliant decentralized identifiers, IPFS storage, and GDPR compliance built-in.

Inside the Solana DID Registry: One Identifier Primitive from Student to Consortium

A deep dive into the bio-did-registry program - how 674 lines of Rust on a global immutable chain close the identifier gap between individuals, universities, and pharmaceutical research.

January 12, 202622 min read

Research

The Future of Scientific Data Sovereignty: Why Decentralization Matters

Exploring how decentralized technologies are reshaping research data ownership, from FAIR principles to self-sovereign data infrastructure.

December 22, 202514 min read

Security

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Securing Research Data for the Next Century

How ML-DSA-87 and other post-quantum algorithms protect sensitive research data against future quantum computing threats.

December 18, 202516 min read

AI/ML

Knowledge Graphs and Scientific Discovery: Connecting the Dots in Research

How semantic knowledge graphs enable breakthrough discoveries by revealing hidden connections across millions of research papers.

December 12, 202518 min read

Technical

Deep Dive: UCAN Authorization for Research Collaboration

Explore how User Controlled Authorization Networks enable secure, decentralized permission management for collaborative research projects.

December 10, 202512 min read

Technical

The Content Addressing Revolution: How CIDs Are Transforming Data Integrity

Understanding content-addressed storage and why cryptographic hashing is the foundation of trustworthy research data infrastructure.

December 8, 202515 min read

Compliance

GDPR Compliance in Decentralized Storage: A Practical Guide

How to maintain GDPR compliance while leveraging the benefits of IPFS and Filecoin for research data storage.

December 5, 202510 min read

Research

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis: Immutable Data Infrastructure for Science

How content-addressed storage and verifiable computation are addressing the $28 billion reproducibility problem in scientific research.

December 1, 202520 min read

AI/ML

BioAgents: AI-Powered Knowledge Extraction for Research Papers

Discover how our AI agents automatically extract metadata, identify entities, and build knowledge graphs from research documents.

November 28, 20257 min read

Technical

Verifiable Credentials in Academic Research: From Degrees to Data Provenance

How W3C Verifiable Credentials are transforming academic credentialing, peer review, and research data attribution.

November 25, 202517 min read

Tutorial

Seamless Integration: Connecting Ekayana with Harvard Dataverse

Step-by-step guide to integrating your Dataverse repository with Ekayana for enhanced discoverability and decentralized backup.

November 20, 202515 min read

Technical

Building on Protocol Labs: Our Technology Stack Explained

An overview of how Ekayana leverages IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and other Protocol Labs technologies for robust research infrastructure.

November 15, 20259 min read

Security

RSA, Elliptic Curves, Lattices?

A worked comparison of the three families that secure the internet - the hard problems underneath, why key sizes differ by orders of magnitude, how derivation really works, and what a quantum computer does to each.

November 11, 202536 min read

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