What is digital trust built on?
When information, rights and responsibilities move between organisations, they must be understandable and verifiable. In HBC’s working groups we explore how this works in practice — and when decentralised technologies genuinely help.
What needs to be trusted?
Data provenance
Where does information come from, who produces it and how can changes be verified?
Digital rights
What does a digital record represent, and how is the right exercised outside the system?
Responsibilities
Who can make decisions, who is accountable for information and how are disputes resolved?
Working groups make the questions concrete.
Choose a group based on whether your question concerns verifiable information, a digital right or bringing a solution into use.
AI and blockchain together
Can we verify the origin of information and decisions?
- Research questions and hybrid models
- Architecture and governance options
- Further development of the DAO model
Researchers, technology experts and organisations with a combined solution to assess.
In 2025, the group met 30 times and developed a DAO operating model as a basis for its 2026 work.
Rights, assets and regulation
Can we trust the right behind a digital representation?
- Description of the right and parties
- Open risk and regulatory questions
- A starting point for a bounded experiment
Experts in assets, finance, law, technology or sector-specific processes.
The group follows tokenisation models and regulation and frames the requirements for practical pilots.
From solution to market
What must a customer understand and be able to verify before adoption?
- Target group and value proposition
- Test of go-to-market assumptions
- Route to partners and test environments
Growth companies, business builders, investors, corporate partners and market experts.
Finnish connections are built through Vantaa Innovation Activator and the German network through Blockchain Academy Mittweida.
Digital trust in practice
Illustrative situations — not claims about projects delivered by HBC.
Verifying production data
How can product origin and production information be checked across a supply chain?
Defining a tokenized right
What does the holder actually receive, who is responsible and how can the right be exercised?
A shared event history
How do organisations agree on shared information, responsibilities and adoption of the solution?
Which working group fits your topic?
Ask about AI & Blockchain, Tokenisation or Go to Market and continue to the group lead when needed.
How to get involved
Start by telling us about your interest and background. Together, we agree how you can contribute to the group.
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Name the question
Describe what you need to understand, solve or put into practice.
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Describe your contribution
Name the experience, data, use case or network you can bring.
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Work with others
The group compares perspectives, sources, constraints and feasible options.
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Choose what follows
The outcome may be a shared recommendation, publication, workshop, partnership or a separately scoped pilot.
Working group or service path?
Not every collaboration should be forced into the same format.
When the question benefits several actors.
Choose a working group when you want to share insight, learn from others and build common sector understanding.
When your organisation needs its own decision.
Choose the service path when you need a confidential assessment, scoped assignment, resourcing or pilot.
What question will you bring to the shared table?
Tell us the topic, your background and what you can contribute. We will route the message to the right group lead.