Germany, March 18 – Minima, a pioneering decentralized layer 1 blockchain for embedded systems, announces its partnership with Siemens Cre8Ventures. The collaboration brings groundbreaking AI capabilities, data integrity, and decentralized trust mechanisms to the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace, addressing critical unmet needs in robotics, automotive, energy, and healthcare equipment industries. This partnership not only strengthens industry-specific security solutions but also supports the sovereignty goals of the EU Chips Act, ensuring European technology independence and leadership in next-generation digital ecosystems.
“Our Siemens Cre8Ventures partnership with Minima brings a first-of-a-kind decentralized security layer to the Digital Twin Marketplace, ensuring trusted data integrity and resilience in automotive, energy, healthcare, and robotics. By integrating Minima’s blockchain technology, we are not only addressing critical security challenges but also reinforcing Europe’s sovereignty in next-generation digital ecosystems. Together, we are setting new benchmarks for secure, AI-driven, and data-powered industries."
– states Carson Bradbury, Co-founder, Siemens Cre8Ventures
Addressing critical industry needs with embedded blockchain
Industries like automotive, energy, healthcare, and robotics face growing threats from cyberattacks and data breaches as they become increasingly reliant on connected systems and autonomous technology. Minima directly addresses these vulnerabilities by enabling devices to independently verify transactions and maintain tamper-proof records without relying on centralized infrastructure:
Automotive security enhancements
Secure vehicle logs, sensor data, and over-the-air (OTA) updates, reducing attack surfaces and ensuring trusted data exchange between OEMs, suppliers, and service providers.
Energy sector resilience
Smart meters, substations, and energy management systems operating as full nodes ensure continuous grid operation even during cyberattacks or outages, eliminating single points of failure.
Healthcare equipment safety & compliance
Protects sensitive patient data, ensures medical device integrity, and creates transparent, immutable audit trails for regulatory compliance and supply chain verification.
Accelerating digital twin validation through the Siemens Cre8Ventures Marketplace
The Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace provides an advanced testing and validation environment, enabling startups and industry leaders in automotive, energy, and healthcare to de-risk and accelerate technology adoption. Through this partnership, Minima enhances digital twin security and verification processes by:
- Authenticating Digital Twin Models: Providing cryptographic proof of data integrity, ensuring Digital Twins reflect verified real-world conditions.
- Securing V2X & IoT Communication: Enabling vehicles, energy grids, and healthcare devices to securely communicate within their ecosystems.
- Enabling Trust in Supply Chain Data: Ensuring traceability and integrity of components and devices, from design to deployment, across all industries.
Supporting the sovereignty goals of the EU Chips Act
The EU Chips Act aims to fortify Europe’s semiconductor and digital infrastructure. This partnership between Siemens Cre8Ventures and Minima directly supports these sovereignty objectives by:
- Providing European automotive, energy, and healthcare companies with decentralized security solutions aligned with EU regulatory standards.
- Offering startups and SMEs in the Cre8Ventures Marketplace access to blockchain technology, enabling them to meet industry-specific cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
- Empowering the development of sovereign, AI-driven, low-power semiconductor solutions across multiple sectors, with integrated blockchain security.
“We are thrilled to partner with Siemens to bring blockchain-based security to industries where trust, compliance, and data integrity are paramount,” said Hugo Feiler, CEO of Minima. “This collaboration represents a significant step toward embedding decentralized security across critical sectors and driving the future of secure, connected ecosystems.”
About Siemens AG
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and reliability for more than 175 years. The company is active worldwide, focusing on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, automation, and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, and smart mobility solutions for rail and road transport. Siemens is a leader in industrial digitalization and supports its customers with comprehensive solutions for driving the digital transformation of their industries.
About Minima
Minima, the embedded blockchain, is a fully decentralized blockchain network designed for real-world applications. Its lightweight architecture enables full nodes to run on mobile and IoT devices, making it a natural fit for scaling decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and Agent-managed physical infrastructure (DePAI). Minima’s extensive community of over 50,000 node operators highlights its commitment to securing digital solutions in a decentralized world. Learn more at minima.global.