CONSORCIO RED ALASTRIA

Their core work

Consorcio Red Alastria is Spain's national blockchain ecosystem — an industry association that connects companies, startups, public institutions, and technology developers around distributed ledger infrastructure and standards. In their EU-funded work, they act as an ecosystem mobilizer: they bring existing member networks into research consortia to run real-world pilots and drive adoption of blockchain technologies among SMEs. Their value is not technical research output but network reach — the ability to engage Spanish and European industry players, test deployments in live environments, and translate regulation-heavy technology into practical business use. They have evolved from facilitating SME blockchain adoption toward building trust infrastructure for digital content and media authenticity.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first project (BLOCKCHERS, 2019) was firmly in blockchain-for-business territory — smart contracts, crypto/ICO education, DLT pilots aimed at traditional SMEs who had no prior exposure to the technology. The second project (TruBlo, 2020) shifted focus entirely: gone are the SME-onboarding keywords, replaced by trust, reputation, transparency, and media content integrity. This represents a meaningful pivot from "help businesses understand blockchain" toward "use blockchain to verify what is real online." The trend suggests they are following the broader maturation of the blockchain space — away from hype-driven adoption campaigns and toward specific high-value use cases around digital trust.

They are moving from broad blockchain evangelism toward focused applications in digital trust infrastructure, making them a credible partner for projects dealing with misinformation, content provenance, or verifiable credentials.

How they like to work

Alastria has participated exclusively as a non-leading partner in both projects — they join consortia rather than build them. Their consortia have been modest in size (9 unique partners total across 2 projects), suggesting they operate in focused, purpose-built teams rather than large multi-stakeholder structures. For a future collaborator, this means Alastria brings network access and industry reach but will expect a technical coordinator or research institution to drive the project; they are a strong ecosystem partner, not a project manager.

Across two projects, Alastria has worked with 9 unique partner organizations spanning 6 countries, a relatively contained network for an association of their stated size. Their geographic spread is European, with Spain as the anchor and likely Western European partners given the H2020 ICT and SME focus areas.

What sets them apart

Alastria is not a university or tech company — it is a national blockchain network, which means it comes with a pre-existing community of member organizations that can serve as pilot sites, early adopters, or dissemination channels within a single project. For any consortium building a blockchain or DLT project that needs Spanish industry engagement or real-world SME testing grounds, Alastria provides access that no single company or research group can replicate. Their cross-sector membership (spanning finance, energy, logistics, telecom, and more in the Spanish market) also makes them relevant to blockchain applications far beyond their two funded projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TruBlo
  The largest funded project (EUR 231,847, running until 2023) and the most forward-looking — addressing blockchain-based content trust at a time when misinformation infrastructure is a live policy concern across Europe.
• BLOCKCHERS
  Focused on a genuinely hard problem — getting traditional SMEs to adopt DLT in practice — combining regulation education, crypto/ICO concepts, smart contracts, and industry matchmaking in a single initiative.