On May 13, LF Decentralized Trust hosted Alastria Blockchain Ecosystem for a look at ISBE (Infraestructura de Servicios Blockchain de España), a national, public-permissioned blockchain infrastructure built on Hyperledger Besu and designed to meet European regulatory requirements by design.
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Miguel Angel Calero Fernández explained how ISBE was developed within the Alastria consortium, backed by the Community of Madrid, and funded through the EU’s NextGenerationEU program. Designed as Europe’s first blockchain infrastructure intended to qualify as a qualified Distributed Ledger Technology (qDLT), the network aims to provide blockchain services with legal effect across the European Union’s digital single market.
The session explored the regulatory and technical decisions behind the platform, including its dual-network architecture on Hyperledger Besu, an approach to GDPR compliance that addresses the right-to-erasure challenge, and an identity framework based on W3C Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials aligned with the European Digital Identity Wallet.
Miguel also covered smart contract governance using the Diamond Pattern (EIP-2535), the use of non-financial tokens for traceability and document lifecycles, and the multi-stakeholder governance model that brings together public institutions and private sector participants to operate the network.
