The BAnDIT project (advanced Blockchain Attacks and Defense Techniques), is an Innovation Training Network funded under the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska­ - Curie Programme that aims at developing an advanced platform to test real persistent threats to BCT and assess the weaknesses of blockchain applications/systems as well as fostering partnership between Industry and Academia in a powerful emerging technology of great impact in our society.

The project is structured around 4 Individual Research Projects (IRPs), one for each Early Stage Researcher (ESR) within 4 main research topics:

• Formal analysis of the blockchain technology  
• Advanced attacks and defense techniques for blockchain-based applications
• Auditing systems for blockchain-based applications
• Economic and legal foundations

The consortium is led by Pompeu Fabra University, and it also takes part in it, Nokia Bell-Labs France (beneficiary), Rovira i Virgili University (partner) and Caelum Labs (partner). Each ESR will spend half of his/her time (approx)  at the academia and the industrial side (both at UPF at Nokia).