The K1-Center ABC–Austrian Blockchain Centre -mission is the one-stop-shop Austrian Research Centre for Blockchain (and related) technologies to be applied in industrial applications like industry 4.0 / IoT as well as financial, energy, logistics, government and administrative applications. Those new applications and business models resulting from collaborations between established players, innovative start-ups and top R&D institutes will be key for the creation of new jobs and establishing Austria among the top ten innovative countries in Europe.

The R&D themes of the centre have been organized in five areas targeting economic, technological, applications as well as political and legal topics interfacing with existing COMET centres like CDP, SBA as well as international blockchain initiatives.