ISO Publishes Blockchain Interoperability Standard After a Decade of Global Effort

TLDR: ISO formally published blockchain interoperability standard 82098 after nearly a decade of international collaboration. Quant CEO Gilbert Verdian chaired Working Group 7, the ISO committee that developed the interoperability framework. The standard uses a multi-gateway architecture, enabling any DLT to connect with another without protocol changes. Quant’s Overledger platform was built on the same architectural principles that shaped the published ISO standard. Blockchain interoperability has reached a major milestone with the formal publication of an ISO standard. Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant, announced the development on social media after a decade of dedicated work. The standard traces its roots to a 2016 proposal that aimed to resolve fragmentation, limiting blockchain adoption. It caps years of international collaboration through ISO Technical Committee 307. Verdian helped establish the committee from the ground up, beginning in 2015. From a Blog Post to a Published ISO Standard The path to this standard began in April 2016 with a bold public proposal. Verdian’s team published what they described as the world’s first blockchain standard proposal. That post outlined a vision for a common framework transcending any single protocol or vendor. That same year, Verdian partnered with Standards Australia to advance the initiative internationally. Together, they pressed ISO to create a dedicated technical committee for blockchain technology. Their argument was clear: blockchain warranted its own global standards programme, not absorption into an existing one. In September 2016, ISO’s New Work Item Proposal received global approval. TC 307 — Blockchain and Electronic Distributed Ledger Technologies — was formally established. Its inaugural meeting took place in Sydney in April 2017, and the detailed technical work started from that point. The Multi-Gateway Architecture Behind the Standard Central to the standard’s design is the principle of multi-gateway archi...