Wolfram Research and Coin Sciences Ltd have entered into a partnership in which the latter’s MultiChain blockchain platform will be made accessible from the Wolfram Language and across the Wolfram family of products, including Mathematica.

MultiChain will be integrated into the Wolfram Language and across Wolfram’s line of products over the coming year. In a joint press release, the companies said that this will enable Wolfram Language users to write applications that make use of blockchain functionality.

“A blockchain is a decentralized ledger that has append-only memory,” said Christian Pasquel, Wolfram’s Development Team Lead. “This is a very simple concept, but it is a powerful building block that will enable a new class of computational applications—we expect everyone who uses the Wolfram Language will benefit from this simple yet powerful functionality.”

Initially, Wolfram will offer users direct access to a zero-configuration private blockchain, accessible in the Wolfram Cloud. Users will be able to create their own blockchain(s)—combining local nodes with those in the Wolfram Cloud, have it store and retrieve data and also expose information about that blockchain to other parties over the web.

“We’re delighted that Wolfram Research has chosen to integrate MultiChain functionality into their flagship product,” said Dr. Gideon Greenspan, founder and CEO of Coin Sciences Ltd. “We have always viewed blockchains as a general-purpose technology for creating peer-to-peer shared databases, so this integration with the Wolfram Language is a perfect fit. Despite the focus which blockchains have received in the finance sector, they are equally useful for decentralized data aggregation and collaboration in many other fields, such as science, engineering, economics and government.”

The integration with MultiChain is slated for release with a Wolfram Language version update later this year, the release said.