Project Advances Dynamic Scaling to Sustain Enterprise-Grade Distributed Ledger Applications for Long-Term, Scalable Operation.
[Washington D.C], December 4, 2024 – Corsha Inc., a Washington D.C.-based cybersecurity firm, known for its innovative Identity Provider for Machines, has received a Phase II contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In partnership with the Ohio State University the project will continue its work to make distributed ledger technology easier to use and more cost-effective for all organizations, especially those with limited resources. By simplifying scalability and enabling these systems to adapt to dynamic usage, the project supports NSF’s mission of fostering innovation that benefits businesses of all sizes while supporting broader adoption of technology.
This approach helps drive progress in private, permissioned distributed ledgers, making them practical for real-world enterprise use in areas like cybersecurity and manufacturing. With support for high transaction speeds and real-time performance, this work is opening the door to new opportunities for secure and scalable solutions in critical environments.
“Commercial distributed ledger technology gives businesses the chance to enjoy the benefits of decentralized trust in a private, efficient and controlled way.” said Anusha Iyer, CEO & Founder of Corsha. “Through this STTR research, we’re enabling ledgers to naturally scale alongside their workloads, making the technology more accessible and practical in diverse and hybrid environments. By integrating ledger pruning earlier in the design process, we’re tackling storage issues right away and starting important discussions about managing ledger size more broadly in the open-source distributed trust community.”
Corsha will work with the Ohio State University to validate the performance of the ledger at scale. "We’re excited to partner with Corsha on this cutting-edge research initiative," said Sam Davanloo, Associate Professor at Ohio State University. "This collaboration provides an opportunity to validate the scalability and efficiency of distributed ledger technology in real-world, high-demand environments, while offering our students hands-on experience."
About Corsha
Corsha is an Identity Provider for Machines that allows an enterprise to securely connect, move data, and automate with confidence from anywhere to anywhere. Corsha builds dynamic identities for trusted machines across the shop floor and cloud and brings innovation like automated, single-use MFA credentials to APIs.
Corsha’s mission is to secure data in motion and bring zero trust to machines, systems, and services. Today DevSecOps and security teams often are forced to compromise by using static, long-lived API keys, tokens, and certificates as weak proxies for machine identity and access. Corsha helps teams move past static secrets and generates dynamic identities for trusted machines, bringing innovation like automated, one-time-use MFA credentials, scheduled access, and deep discovery to APIs. The Identity Provider also offers visibility and control over automated API traffic and enables real-time revocation and rotation of identity without disrupting other workloads.
Whether it is across hybrid cloud infrastructure, data centers, or manufacturing shop floors, Corsha reimagines machine identity to keep pace with the scale of data and automation needed today. We ensure automated communication from anywhere to anywhere is pinned to only trusted microservices, workloads, server, controllers, and more.
About the National Science Foundation's Small Business Programs
America’s Seed Fund powered by NSF awards $200 million annually to startups and small businesses, transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial and societal impact. Startups working across almost all areas of science and technology can receive up to $2 million to support research and development (R&D), helping de-risk technology for commercial success. America’s Seed Fund is congressionally mandated through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The NSF is an independent federal agency with a budget of about $8.5 billion that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
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