Rostec halved the budget of the blockchain development program in Russia

State Corporation "Rostec" plans to spend 28.4 billion rubles on the development of blockchain in Russia by 2024, which is at least half the amount of the initial budget of the program.

According to the new plan, 9.5 billion rubles. will need to be allocated from the state treasury, but the majority (18.9 billion rubles) will have to come from extra-budgetary sources. According to Rostec estimates, blockchain technologies will help the Russian economy save 0.5 billion rubles. by reducing operating costs, and attracting an additional 0.6 billion rubles to the budget. astax revenue.

Of the total amount for the introduction of technology1.17 billion rubles will be allocated to the distributed registry in the healthcare structure, and integration into the goods control system will require 650 million rubles. Another 475 million rubles. will go to blockchain solutions for accounting for resource consumption and the introduction of technologies in housing and communal services.

The plan is currently under reviewin government. The budget of the current version is several times more modest than the previous version, in which 55 billion rubles were allocated for the development of the blockchain. up to 85 billion rubles However, we also expected a much greater total economic effect – almost 1.64 trillion rubles.

In September last year The Russian Ministry of Finance alsoannounced that he also plans to allocate 349 million rubles to finance organizations developing software based on blockchains for processing and storing data by government information systems.

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