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title: Blockchain at Denovo | Terni, Central Italy
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date: 2026-04-17
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# Blockchain at Denovo | Terni, Central Italy

Blockchain is one of Denovo’s four R&D streams, alongside artificial intelligence, mechatronics and cybersecurity. From Terni we develop smart contracts, decentralised applications and identity and traceability systems based on distributed ledgers, in-house and together with companies in Central Italy and across the EU.

## Where we apply blockchain

Blockchain by itself is not a product. It becomes useful when it solves a real problem of trust, proof of existence, or coordination among parties that do not trust each other upfront. The scenarios we work on most often:

- **Supply chain traceability**: cryptographic certification of events along the production chain, with on-chain validation of attestations and read-only interfaces for consumers and regulators.
- **Decentralised identity**: verifiable credentials held directly by the subject, without needing a central authority for each use.
- **Smart contracts**: business logic executed deterministically, with operating costs calibrated on the chosen network layer (Ethereum, EVM layer 2, permissioned chains).
- **Token economics**: design of token-based incentive systems, with preliminary modelling of usage dynamics.

## Combinations with the other streams

- blockchain and [mechatronics](/en/mechatronics/): devices that sign telemetry on-device before sending it to the network, guaranteeing end-to-end integrity;
- blockchain and [AI](/en/artificial-intelligence/): oracles that bring off-chain inferences into verifiable smart contracts;
- blockchain and [cybersecurity](/en/cybersecurity-rd/): post-quantum cryptographic schemes compatible with existing chains and with our hardware security R&D.

## How we work

We pick the chain for the project, not the other way round. Evaluation starts from throughput requirements, operating cost, auditability and regulatory compliance. We do not push speculative tokens and we do not take on projects without a defined use case.

Our operational base is in Terni, Umbria. As an Italian innovative startup we operate across the EU and Switzerland.

## Who reaches out to us

- companies in Central Italy looking to certify the supply chain of a product;
- consortia and public bodies searching for verifiable identity systems;
- integrators looking for a partner to plug smart contracts into an existing application flow.

To discuss a blockchain or Web3 project, [reach us through the contact page](/en/contact-us/).