ISBE is a project spearheaded by the Community of Madrid, part of Spain’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), and is supported by funding from the European Union through NextGenerationEU.

ISBE works in conjunction with various European infrastructures, including EBSI. It adheres to EU regulations and promotes international interoperability, linking the Spanish digital ecosystem with that of Europe.

ISBE implements a polycentric and collaborative governance approach, involving both public and private stakeholders in decision-making. This method helps prevent power from becoming too concentrated and promotes transparency. Additionally, ISBE uses a layered technical governance model that clearly defines nodes, identities, data, and applications, implementing specific and verifiable controls. This strong and adaptable framework supports stability and encourages the use of blockchain services by businesses and public organizations.

ISBE has been operational since late 2025. It was initially deployed in the Community of Madrid, and from December 31 onward, a gradual rollout began across the rest of Spain’s autonomous communities.

A variety of solutions can be implemented on ISBE, ranging from essential financial services to applications for digital identity, certification, traceability, compliance automation, and tokenization.

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Some use cases require a high level of security, traceability, and regulatory compliance, particularly those involving sensitive sectors such as healthcare, digital identity, public administration, and critical services.

As a public-permissioned network, ISBE provides a regulated ecosystem for companies and public administrations, offering enhanced security, access control, regulatory compliance, and interoperability with European networks.

ISBE integrates compliance by design with GDPR and eIDAS2, ensuring privacy, data minimization, and legal validity from the foundation of its architecture. It will also incorporate MiCA, DORA, LMVSI, ENS, and NIS2 into its processes, enabling secure and verifiable digital services, trusted lists, and tokenized models. The infrastructure implements technical safeguards, continuous monitoring, incident management, and full traceability, ensuring that use cases operate in line with European regulations.

To enhance its overall security, ISBE employs comprehensive access controls, clearly defined role separations, secure identity management practices, ongoing monitoring, encryption techniques, operation within isolated environments, technical validations, node validation processes, and mechanisms for incident protection.

Yes. ISBE operates on platforms such as AWS and Azure and will also support other cloud providers, enabling greater resilience, technological sovereignty, and operational continuity.

ISBE adopts a modular architecture, multi-cloud services, and middleware that facilitate integration with external systems. It enables interoperability with EBSI and other European networks, ensuring secure and standards-aligned integrations within the EU trust and identity framework.

The roadmap includes middleware to interoperate with EBSI and other DLT networks, APIs for third-party project connectivity, discovery and identity services, and smart contracts.

Yes. ISBE provides smart contracts and verified governance for digital assets and financial services. It is designed to meet security, traceability, and regulatory requirements, aligning with European frameworks such as MiCA.

ISBE addresses digital identity by integrating a DID-based model, a trust framework, and permission controls, enabling secure authentication, traceability, and signatures compatible with European trust services.

As a shared infrastructure, ISBE has a lower environmental impact than individual deployments, contributing to a reduced carbon footprint.

ISBE is designed to incorporate tools that measure energy consumption and carbon footprint, fully integrated into its ESG model.

With ISBE, businesses can innovate without incurring significant upfront costs, allowing them to test and scale solutions in a secure, regulated environment without the burden of building or maintaining their own proprietary infrastructure.

Public administrations can have the ability to provide digital services that are secure, verifiable, and traceable. They can also automate processes that hold legal validity and enhance interoperability among different agencies.

ISBE allows educational institutions to provide verifiable academic credentials, certify their internal processes, and comply with the European digital identity framework.

ISBE can be used by both business and technical profiles without requiring deep blockchain specialization, thanks to available guides and templates.

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The process begins with submitting an application, followed by verification, role assignment, and operational validation, after which the necessary access credentials are provided.

The first step is to register. ISBE’s technical documentation details the steps required to deploy and validate a use case.

ISBE provides testing and pre-production environments that replicate real parameters, allowing validation of operations, compliance, interoperability, and performance before final deployment.

ISBE provides ready-to-use tools, smart contracts, APIs, technical resources, and supporting materials to accelerate time to market and reduce complexity.

ISBE was launched in late 2025 with a service catalog, and in 2026 it will expand and integrate interoperability tools with EBSI and other European networks.