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4.2 Blockchain for cities’ use-cases

Several cities around the world in Australia, Estonia, Malta, China, Denmark, Switzerland, the United
Arab Emirates, Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden
and others are planning, initiating, developing or currently running blockchain-based initiatives. Dubai
has been championing blockchain for their city by developing related projects and creating a common
platform to make the city paperless. The Swiss city of Zug has the ambition to become the “Crypto-
Valley” by providing a “crypto-friendly business ecosystem”. The city of New York is launching several
blockchain-based initiatives and working in collaboration with the government, universities and citizen
stakeholders to build a flexible, enabling regulatory environment and serve as a hub or resource Big
data for the city’s blockchain industry.

For the preparation of this report, data from 13 cases were collected. Based on the available data, this
report documents eight use-cases linked to blockchain for cities, to better understand the transformative
potential of the technology for building a smarter and sustainable city. The ensuing subsections describe
the cases of the debt relief in the city of The Hague, the Decode and decide projects in Barcelona and
Amsterdam; the energy system management in South Holland; Moscow weekend fairs; the Moscow
Active Citizen project; the land registry in Georgia and the cell tower voting system in South Tyrol.

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