The telecom sector continues its transition towards virtualizing infrastructure. The digitalization of assets and their commercialization in a marketplace is expected to play a central role in 6G networks.

Technologies like Blockchain and Smart Contracts (SC) are poised to play a significant role in shaping the creation of such a digital decentralized marketplace where stakeholders in the telco industry and even new players can transact with each other more effectively by commercialising virtualized services, infrastructure, and networks.    

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SCs offer many benefits in many diverse areas, but particular to the scope of the 6GENABLERS-DTL project; they have been designed to be incorporated into the 6GENABLERS Marketplace Platform for the transaction of Network Functions of any type (xNF).

In this context, Atos has developed the SC system, a key element of the trusted 6GENABLERS Marketplace Platform. The SC system facilitates xNF providers and service providers’ engagement in negotiations backed up by an SC.

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