{"id":1718,"date":"2025-06-26T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/%f0%9f%a7%ad-fides-distributed-cyber-physical-contracts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:34:10","slug":"%f0%9f%a7%ad-fides-distributed-cyber-physical-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/%f0%9f%a7%ad-fides-distributed-cyber-physical-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udded Fides: Distributed Cyber-Physical Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-custom-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bb25cdba14778e66b4f958ed0a0f133c\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.625), 1.25rem);\"><strong><strong><strong>\u2018Fides &#8211; natural language meets peer-to-peer: digital contracts without blockchain ballast\u2019<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.625), 1.25rem);\"><strong>Publication date:<\/strong> 2021 (\u00a9 IEEE) <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.625), 1.25rem);\">The paper introduces <strong>Fides<\/strong>, a lightweight framework that allows self-enforcing contracts to be formulated in <strong>natural language<\/strong>. Unlike traditional blockchain solutions, Fides separates payments from contract logic, encrypts all interactions end-to-end, and runs on a low-power peer-to-peer network. This allows both people and devices to enter into cyber-physical agreements without incurring high fees or programming skills. Developers receive an open API, while non-experts can create and automate via templates &#8211; paving the way for trust-building, data-saving digitalisation.   <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.625), 1.25rem);\"><strong>Authors \/<\/strong> <strong>Editors:<\/strong> <strong>Lars Creutz<\/strong>, <strong>Jens Schneider<\/strong>, <strong>Guido Dartmann<\/strong> (Institute for Software Systems, Trier University of Applied Sciences) <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a124a5cfb8126c3c65f0f5520c91d6aa\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.625), 1.25rem);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umwelt-campus.de\/fileadmin\/Umwelt-Campus\/Birkenfeld_Institute_of_Technology\/Paper\/fides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 <strong>\u201eWe present Fides, a framework for creating contracts based on natural language that focuses on security and privacy.\u201c<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Fides &#8211; natural language meets peer-to-peer: digital contracts without blockchain ballast\u2019 Publication date: 2021 (\u00a9 IEEE) The paper introduces Fides, a lightweight framework that allows self-enforcing contracts to be formulated in natural language. Unlike traditional blockchain solutions, Fides separates payments from contract logic, encrypts all interactions end-to-end, and runs on a low-power peer-to-peer network. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"publication","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[129,186,187,188,185],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication","tag-cyber-physical-systems","tag-iot-en","tag-peer-to-peer-en","tag-privacy-preserving-tech-en","tag-smart-contracts-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iste-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}