Inria, a research institute dedicated to digital science and technology, Telecom ParisTech and Telecom SudParis, two major engineering graduate schools and IMT (Institut Mines-Telecom) research centres dedicated to innovation in the digital world and SystemX, an Institute for Technological Research (IRT) dedicated to digital engineering of the future, are announcing the pooling of their Blockchain expertise today in a launch event at Telecom ParisTech in accordance with a framework agreement formalising the “BART” (Blockchain Advanced Research & Technologies) joint research initiative.