The government of the Isle of Man has announced its latest blockchain proof-of-concept.

Profiled today in Financial News, the project is a collaboration with blockchain startup Credits that finds the two partners exploring whether the technology can be used to help keep Internet of Things (IoT) devices from being compromised.

Credits co-founder Nick Williamson told the new source that the idea behind the project is to assign unique identities to physical items, thereby creating a way of affirming their authenticity.

Williamson told the publication:

An early proponent of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, the Isle of Man has long been one of the more active governments in exploring the technology.

The trial comes more than a year after the British dependency revealed it was working with Credits (then called Pythia) on a blockchain database for corporate registries, and nearly two years after it launched a digital currency-focused incubator.

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