Everything Blockchain Inc. announced a partnership with Al-Rushaid Technologies (ART). Together, the two companies will work to deliver highly-differentiated data protection solutions to countries in the Middle East and North Africa. ART, a subsidiary of Al-Rushaid Group, offers a variety of innovative IT solutions suitable for companies of all sizes and across various industries.

The five-year distribution deal with a combined total of $47 million in performance based milestone payments to EBI will position ART as the exclusive agent of the company's EB Control platform in several MENA countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Egypt. EB Control safeguards data on the owner's local device by creating a secure vault. This vault can be stored, transported or shared, allowing owners to maintain complete control for the lifespan of the data.

With EB Control, data and files can be geo-fenced, time-fenced and data rights management invoked. With this innovative technology, data can be confidently shared and controlled outside of a secure domain. In addition to EB Control, ART will become a non-exclusive reseller of BuildDB, EBI's next-generation database powered by a advanced private blockchain architecture that delivers superior performance, reduced latency, zero trust and unmatched resilience.