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Spend any amount of time in the blockchain sector and you’ll find a flood of opinions for ways blockchain technology will be “a game-changer.” Where this goes wrong is that it’s light on how it will change the game exactly and why there’s a game at all. But with the right use cases, organizations can benefit from the efficiency and shared recordkeeping a distributed ledger or specifically Hyperledger Fabric can offer.
A private blockchain for business creates a common version of the truth, the so-called source of truth, that’s difficult to change and easy to audit. Using permissioned networks also limits network participants to ensure data is secure. For businesses, this means better collaboration, streamlining business processes, and more transparency among business partners.
Like any technology, it takes a while for the value to finally emerge. Take photography for example. Since the beginning, the point has always been the same. It captures a copy of the truth — however selective — and keeps it forever.
Just like blockchain, early photography was not user-friendly, not cheap, not fast, and not for the masses. The full potential of the technology cannot be released in real-time, but over years as it needs time. Think of early blockchain projects as photography circa 1860 technically limited, reserved for specialists, and complicated to use.
At the time, few grasped its full potential. Many critics objected because an existing medium — painting — captured moments just fine.
Photography’s business benefits are clear to us today in hindsight, though. The global medical imaging market — a spinoff of photography — was worth $25 billion in 2019 according to Markets and Markets report. If Instagram were a stand-alone company Bloomberg estimates it would be worth more than $100 billion.
Of course, the fundamental reason we still take pictures has not changed in nearly 200 years. What has changed is the tools, business opportunities, specific use cases, and major advances in usability. We’re still innovating with blockchain. That’s not to say that there are no benefits, rather breakthroughs unfold as companies invest in development.
Below you can find eight no-nonsense use cases for private blockchains.
Financial settlement
Among the first blockchain including Hyperledger use cases were those in the payments. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and Ethereum lend themselves well to cross-border and digital payment systems. The world’s most popular public blockchain, Bitcoin, has especially captured a competitive advantage for a niche market. Bitcoin, however, is more of a philosophical choice than practical financial technology. Other blockchain protocols offer better usability and scalability, especially at scale.
At Espeo Software we design enterprise blockchain applications i.e. we have designed a remittance service using the Stellar protocol as an example of a system that will allow the following financial transactions – transfer money quickly and cheaply across borders. Cryptocurrency enables real-time money transfers anywhere in the world. With cryptographic guarantees, blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer payments by making sure users can’t spend their tokens twice — double-spending is something other payment processors use financial institutions like banks and credit rating agencies to prevent.
This, of course, removes money transfer services from the transaction, significantly reducing operating costs to transfer money internationally. When end users can trust both contract counterparties it is good for the money and enables more trustworthy peer-to-peer asset transfers.
For internal settlements, though, i.e. Hyperledger Fabric offers a way to both manage and carry out payments between an organization’s branches or close partners. An open and transparent blockchain solution helps organizations to ensure trust and create a transparent record. Network participants can clearly see where transactions go and for what.
Enterprise blockchain for contract validation
Companies with many branches and partners can create an ecosystem with a private blockchain such as Hyperledger Fabric. When a contract expires, certain actions such as issuing an invoice or renewing the contract need to be taken. Currently, these actions are often carried out through manual or semi-automated processes. Companies have to integrate multiple systems and fight data siloing. Using the blockchain network you get one place to store all information consistently and transparently. Moreover, we can use blockchain smart contracts to trigger new automatic actions when the contracts expire. The smart contract’s behaviour can adjust to the asset type and treat different product or service delivery than inventory sales.
Contract validation features can combine with other features like invoices and internal payments. One of the biggest challenges with large companies is transparency and trust between parties. A private, permissioned blockchain together with traditional IT solutions can resolve these problems. While designing software for multiple entities, a consensus mechanism needs to be taken into consideration, as commonly used PoW will generate significant costs.
Invoice processing
Large organizations with global offices struggle with the complexity of invoice processing. Some branches within an organization still do it manually, which can get too complicated. Centralized record-keeping software also limits transparency and can cause chaos when organizations don’t share access to it.
Blockchain enterprise systems using i.e. Hyperledger fabric technology puts all the records a conglomerate produces in one place. Thanks to such a blockchain network none of the organizations can modify the records or add new records without the other participants seeing the change.
Blockchain as a tamper-proof audit trail
What blockchains do is clear — they record a tamper-proof audit trail and distribute a current copy to everyone who’s interested in seeing it. Whether that’s in a public blockchain like Ethereum or in a closed group like the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric, the motivation is largely the same. Gather and keep reliable information for every asset type.
What isn’t as clear yet is why.
Die-hard proponents harp on how blockchain will fix the world’s problems. This is overly optimistic, of course. The one reason to use a blockchain is to establish an audit trail, especially if you can’t trust the other actors you’re working with. If you share data with people you trust or don’t share much data at all, don’t think about consensus mechanisms and smart b2b contracts, use a database. This has been our line from the beginning.
Whether you’re tracking invoices, managing referrals, checking a contract’s validity, settling internal payments, managing access to records or tracking supply, tamper-proof auditing matters, and can significantly reduce liability and overhead.
We’ve worked on several of these use-case puzzles in in-house proofs of concept enterprise-grade applications and in applications for our clients. To explore exactly how business blockchain technology and the Hyperledger Fabric network will grow existing businesses and spin off new industries, it’s often important to try to build out a proof of concept first.
Here’s an overview of some of our POC projects and some ways to apply blockchain platforms to business.
Managing data access
One of the many blockchains for business use cases is keeping track of records and who has access to them. In a proof-of-concept application, we’ve developed, our team created an app that manages medical record storage for patients and their doctors based on Hyperledger Fabric.
Patients use their private keys to access a patient portal and can grant and revoke access to doctors. In turn, doctors use their keys to enter a doctor’s portal where they can add records of procedures.
The system shows how the blockchain platform plays a role in securing patient data and can improve some inefficiencies in the current system especially, in the cost of securing medical data. The system’s built-in security allows patients, doctors, and administrators to seamlessly coordinate over the application.
Tracking supply chain network and origin
Another excellent use for a tamper-proof audit trail is in supply chain tracking. Blockchain for the supply chain is one of the areas where we believe in a big technological impact, naming the pharmaceutical supply chain as the starting point. In our supply chain POC, we explored the role of a blockchain-based platform in verifying digital interactions that allow checking if a product has been shipped from a valid source and that it travelled through the supply chain in the right conditions.
Counterfeiting and mishandled drugs account for billions of dollars of losses to Big Pharma each year. Ensuring that consumers get exactly what they’re paying for and verifying that it’s not harmful is the main benefit to this use case.
Additional use cases of blockchain for the supply chain sector are in food tracking. As with pharmaceuticals, a blockchain-based supply platform which is tracking food to its source can help regulators verify that fish, for example, was properly harvested and is the species the package claims. It can also help retailers contain outbreaks of foodborne illness by quickly pinpointing which farm your spinach came from and how it was transported.
Walmart together with IBM has already launched a Hyperledger-based application, FoodTrack, to audit the source of leafy greens in its stores accurately.
Just as Hyperledger permissioned blockchain projects can help with the efficient processing of invoices, they can also track commissions and clearly show a history of accepted work and the payments for it. This is especially useful for conglomerates that operate in multiple countries that struggle with managing commission or referral payments.
Whether a particular partner uses a different accounting system, provides low-quality data with many duplicates, or is purposefully misrepresenting commissions, an application using Hyperledger Fabric can help establish order.
Blockchain-based time-sensitive distribution
The pandemic has affected all organizations in various possible ways. But it has obviously impacted healthcare organizations most significantly. While science came with its own answers to the situation which began in 2019 – new challenges regarding that occurred as well.
Scientists created effective vaccines, but they have to be transported in very strict conditions and to the places where they will be used on time. Especially at the early stages of vaccination, each dose was close to being priceless and none of it could have been wasted. On the other hand, the rapid introduction of the product to the market and extremely high demand have also encouraged potential frauds and counterfeits.
All of those new issues were solved with blockchain implementation. Tech Mahindra has created an interesting system based on Hyperledger Fabric – VaccineLedger which was developed in cooperation with a startup funded by Unicef and Gavi. Thanks to it the monitoring and distribution of vaccines can operate smoothly using precise information on the logistics, temperature, current location, purchase orders and transport conditions. You can read more about it in Forbes.
Development of an internally secured marketplace
The pandemic has also extorted robust cooperation between healthcare equipment owners. Different entities required special inventory like respirators or oxygen supplies and coordinating these needs with minimal mismanagement is not easy. Medical institutions use different systems, but permanent e-mail and phone coordination is neither accurate nor time efficient. If you add some time that will be consumed by the repairs, operating the central procurement system and a need to care about the patients – the real problem arises.
In order to build a comprehensive, nationwide internal system dedicated to the healthcare industry Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has organized a dedicated think-tank. Using the report from the debate as a starting point at Espeo Blockchain we have organized a product specification workshop with one of our clients. As an effect, we have built a prototype with a blockchain framework in mind, planned interaction of different groups of users with the system and infrastructure of private blockchain with direct access for all participants with immutable records by design.
Conclusion of use cases for Hyperledger Fabric
I hope your takeaway from this article, is a better understanding of the fundamental feature of blockchain systems — tamper-proof auditing — and how it drives blockchain use cases.
Shared recordkeeping, smart contracts, supply chain management, shared assets, provenance, and payments are particularly salient now with existing blockchain tech to build apps around. The flexibility of blockchain solutions supports many business use cases even sensitive ones. Other use cases will take more time to work out — especially considering usability for a general audience. Don’t let it discourage you, this is a normal and healthy part of any technological innovation.
As more businesses find valuable Hyperledger Fabric use cases, new ways to innovate will continue to emerge. Blockchain is here to stay, it is important to get education and training on the subject to make an honest assessment of what it is and what it isn’t vital to use it right. And we are here to provide you with every practical guidance you might need.
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Over the last five years, blockchain has demonstrated the potential to disrupt almost every sector. The global fintech industry aims to build a revolutionary decentralized transparent payment system that uses digital currencies as a means of exchange.
The financial sector will benefit most from this emerging tech, but the prices of the first generation of digital assets, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, are highly volatile, speculative assets. For cryptocurrencies to replace fiat currencies as the future of money, they must have stable prices. This is what led to the creation of stablecoins. In this article, we will discuss what stablecoins are, the various types of stablecoins, and their importance. We shall also look at the recent interest of governments in issuing their digital currencies backed by their native currencies.
Stablecoins, rather than cryptocurrencies, might be the future of money
As the name suggests, stablecoins differ from mainstream but highly volatile cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum, in their focus on price stability. In achieving stability from the beginning, stablecoins aim to prevent a scenario like that experienced by Laszlo Hanyecz in 2010.
Hanyecz is an American software programmer who bought two pizzas using 10,000 bitcoins (at a time when one bitcoin was a fraction of a cent). Currently, this transaction would be worth $100 million. Hanyecz wanted to prove a point — this was the first time someone accepted bitcoin as a medium of exchange, but the now-famous story has also become a symbol of the drawbacks of using volatile currency for regular purchases.
Stablecoins allow buyers and sellers to lock in prices. They have their prices pegged to real-world assets, like the U.S. dollars, precious metals, commodities, or property to name a few. Because of their stability, stablecoins are the ideal tools that can link blockchain networks with traditional economies. They help users streamline payments through automation while maintaining liquidity, security, and transparency.
The issue of connecting the blockchain ecosystem with the traditional banking system has persisted for a long time now, but, with the introduction of stablecoins, businesses and the masses will soon be relying on these digital assets to make cross-border payments. Stablecoins bring the benefits of cryptocurrencies with an added advantage of price stability, which is attractive for users looking for cost-effective, instant, and safer means of transactions in day-to-day spending.
Types of stablecoins
Fiat-collateralized
These stablecoins are backed by a fiat currency, like the US dollars. The issuing firm holds real-world assets in a financial institution or partners with a third-party financial provider to keep money on their behalf. The tokens act as a claim of the underlying assets. The same applies to a scenario where commodities, such as precious metals, and bonds back the coins.
Fiat-collateralized stablecoins were the first stablecoins and the easiest to understand for crypto newbies since they are the most common onboarding tools into the crypto space. They are simple, elegant, and more easily trusted by retail users compared to other digital currencies. However, the coins are mostly issued by centralized companies with their governance mechanisms, and in the case of full custody integration, they are vulnerable to fraud.
Besides, not all fiat currencies are stable, as their underlying fiat may not be stable themselves. For instance, the US dollar is backed by gold reserves whose value keeps on appreciating and depreciating. A consumer must have faith in the US dollar to use a USD backed stablecoin, like Tether, TrueUSD, USDCoin, and Gemini Dollar.
Crypto-collateralized
This type of stablecoins is backed by a class of other decentralized crypto-assets. The advantage of this collateralization method is that it is decentralized; hence, it is not susceptible to a central point of failure. The disadvantage is that despite their blend of assets thought to minimize volatility, in the current crypto markets influenced by whales, any combination of digital assets will be considered unstable.
The typical use case is MakerDAI. It managed to maintain its peg in 2018 despite an 80% decline in Ether’s value as the only collateral.
Non-collateralized
These stablecoins achieve stability through algorithms, implying that they are actually not pegged to any tangible asset. Instead, users trust the system, expecting that the coins will appreciate, just like Bitcoin. Non-collateralized stablecoins are designed with two protocols: a stablecoin and a bond, promising profits if the currency increases in value. By buying the bond with the stablecoin, its supply is reduced.
Non-collateralized coins are the most innovative stablecoins and also the most complex to thrive. A good example is the Basis Project. However, hybrids have been developed to leverage fiat and crypto-collateralized models, like the Reserve and Carbon coins.
Why are stablecoins important?
Stablecoins have undeniably steered in a new dawn, especially for early adopters of blockchain and crypto traders. As their stability continues to attract institutional investors and governments, more entrants are expected to join forces. This is how the stablecoin market looked from 2014 to 2019.
Their application has been embraced for various reasons, such as:
They encourage crypto adoption
The first digital currencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, were hard to comprehend and difficult to appreciate and adopt. Technical terminologies and explanations made many people think that they were for geeks only.
It was challenging to prove their application of buying goods and services in the real-world. However, stablecoins- particularly the fiat-collateralized model- are quite different. When you tell people that stablecoins are a type of digital currencies, it is easy to visualize them. Besides, since they are pegged to the value of real-world assets, such as the US Dollar, it is easy to trust and embrace them.
They calm volatility
As the term suggests, stablecoins are designed to have price stability. The main reason for their creation is to minimize price swings prevalent in mainstream cryptocurrencies. All the three types of stablecoins have shown a lot of potential. But, the fiat-collateralized stablecoins are the biggest winners so far. For example, a coin like Tether has already achieved much success in this regard.
Crypto-collateralized stablecoins have not yet been widely embraced because of the underlying issues with cryptocurrencies generally being highly volatile. It is, therefore, challenging to convince people that a coin will be stable, yet it’s pegged to unstable assets.
Value is straightforward
Stablecoins, particularly the fiat-collateralized ones, are easily valued. It is as easy as getting an account balance and using the dollar sign to comprehend or communicate the price. For instance, if you have 5,000 Gemini Dollars in your wallet, you basically have $5,000 in possession. The easy it is to value a digital asset, the easier it is to embrace them in day-to-day spending and cross-border payments. For instance, if you want to buy an iPhone valued at $1,500, you only need 1,500 USDT. This implies that to facilitate payment at the point of sale, only a stablecoin payment option is required for the retail outlets. Once developers consider such aspects, everything else will follow suit.
They are cost-effective and immediate
Being a blockchain-based form of money transfer, stablecoins bear many benefits of electronic money transfer, such as instant and cost-effective money transactions. Consider a situation where it costs you $4 to do a cross-border transaction. These charges cover labor costs, power bills, and audits for human error. Blockchain eliminates central entities automate manual tasks so you will only be charged about $1. Unlike bank transfers that take several hours to days to be completed, your transaction will be processed instantly. That is how JP Morgan is facilitating cross-border payments using their JPM Stablecoin .
The case for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
CBDCs have been a primary subject for blockchain enthusiasts, futurists, governments, and lawmakers for some time now. They have evolved from a topic of interest to a high-potential tool for governments to address better the severe economic effects of the Corona Virus and beyond. Lawmakers, including politicians and central banks, are uncertain where, how, and which tools to leverage to save their economies as they deal with the pandemic and prepare for the imminent. This has led to a heightened interest in crypto innovation for the coming decade.
Currently, the global economy requires a payment system with which you can make payments instantly, cost-effectively, and without intermediaries, like Visa and MasterCard. China is already piloting its “digital yuan,” with the US, Great Britain, France, South Korea, and other nations making tremendous efforts in developing their digital currencies backed by their native currencies.
Already 20% of the 66 banks have shown interest in issuing their digital currencies in the next ten years. With all these efforts happening quickly under closed doors, it appears inevitable that state-issued stablecoins will be prevalent in the next few years and eventually replace their fiat counterparts.
Conclusion
In general, stablecoins are revolutionary tools with huge potential to revolutionize the future of finance fundamentally. With blockchain as the underlying technology, they can scale rapidly globally and disrupt the traditional payment systems. Stablecoins are already thought-provoking people’s understanding of money, generating a paradox environment where they will thrive as the main currency.
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As blockchain technology percolates deeper into almost every sector of our economies — from finance to supply chain to real estate, there is more to this revolutionary technology than algorithms, regulation, and code. The more blockchain use cases transform our life financial markets, the more sources of information regarding this technology appear on the internet. In order to help you navigate the crypto industry, we have prepared a list of the top blockchain blogs out there.
If you are tired of the constant price speculation in sources, such as Reddit, Telegram groups, and the more mainstream crypto websites, here are some of the best sources for coverage of blockchain news and crypto markets authored by those with their fingers on the pulse of the decentralization movement.
The Top 10 Cryptocurrency Blogs and Crypto Influencers to Follow
CoinDesk is one of the most popular news platforms for such crypto currencies as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins today. In fact, other crypto websites cite it as a source of their information. However it is a very insightful content, so that Cryptocurrency newbies may encounter difficulties understanding some of the terminologies used in their blog posts.
It is run by CoinDesk Inc., which carries out one of the most popular events of the crypto space — the Consensus Summit, and daily publishes analytical content touching all blockchain uses cases. Generally, CoinDesk is one of the most popular and best crypto blog handling cryptocurrency news and anything affecting the blockchain industry.
Cointelegraph
Cointelegraph launched more than seven years ago and is entirely autonomous. The platform publishes a lot of insightful content regarding crypto markets, world blockchain events, collections of altcoins, and general information of mining activities. They cover four primary topics: cryptocurrency trading, blockchain, mining activities, and crypto and blockchain news.
Remarkably, they discuss digital currencies from all angles, comparing them to the standard for payment transactions, the value measure, and the medium of exchange. Cointelegraph looks for use cases of blockchain in the real-world and analyzes everything that happens in the crypto world. This includes a clear structure, a news feed, crypto rating, regulation, and information regarding upcoming coin offerings.
Vitalik Buterin’s Blog
It is hard to condense all of Vitalik Buterin’s contributions to the blockchain space into a single blog. He successfully managed to create the Ethereum blockchain, its native currency, and its native programming language. Because of the success of the Ethereum network, especially opening the way for the creation of decentralized applications, Vitalik is one of the crucial personalities in the evolution of blockchain.
In his crypto blog, Vitalik discusses everything from the history and challenges of the Ethereum blockchain to the development of theories on levels of fault-tolerant consensus and even how the blockchain industry should be regulated. If there is any crypto news website that you should consider reading as an investor looking for insightful content that will help you to gain a more technical understanding of blockchain technology, this should be among your priorities.
CCN
Launched in 2013 as Cryptonews.com, CCN provides not only news about cryptocurrencies and crypto markets, but also detailed analysis. The content is supported with clear graphs and figures, offering valuable information about trade volume, exchange rates, and changing market trends. Focused initially on Bitcoin, the blog has broadened its content offering to cover the current, expansive coin offerings in the crypto space.
The brand has established itself as a source of reliable cryptocurrency information. The crypto community likes their way of presenting information- structured, briefly, and mostly, not forgetting their provision of a broad selection of references to extra materials. Readers can subscribe to their newsletter to receive the latest news directly in their emails.
BitMEX Research
BitMEX is among the top crypto exchanges, but what many do not know is that their research blog is also one of the most in-depth in the crypto space. The BitMEX journalists flame their posts in a financial journal style, covering everything related to blockchain technology and crypto markets.
The BitMEX team strives to offer deep insights into why and how one or more current happenings are influencing the crypto world in a certain way. A good example of this would be their efforts in covering stablecoins, which ends with what current stablecoin projects are trustworthy and why, with the support of financial indicators. Because of these factors and many more, it is easy to group their blog among the top crypto blogs.
Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine is the world’s first magazine and one of the most established sources of Bitcoin news, information, market analysis and expert commentary on Bitcoin, its underlying technology, and the entire industry that has evolved around it. The magazine is owned by BTC Media LLC, the media and publishing subsidiary of BTC Inc. Since 2012, it has offered detailed analysis, research, education, and thought leadership at the intersection of finance and technology.
The publication strives to offer accurate, timely, and relevant content to the crypto community.
Specifically, Bitcoin Magazine is passionate about Bitcoin and is keen to share news about individuals, businesses, and technological advancements that are transforming the world. Whether you are blockchain newcomer, savvy developer, investor, or entrepreneur, the platform aims to inform and educate you with quality content that meets the international editorial and journalistic standards, featuring both the highs and the lows of the crypto industry.
BitcoinTechWeekly
BitcoinTechWeekly differs a lot from the rest of this pack of websites for one main reason. It is categorically geared toward those who are not only seeking Bitcoin news but already have a technical understanding of blockchain technology.
Most of their posts focus on the latest software development tools, technical analysis and network updates in the industry, making it the best choice for technically savvy blockchain individuals.
Since they purposely style themselves as covering “weekly bitcoin tech news,” it is likely that their opinions will be subject to the Bitcoin maximalist school of thought.
A16z Blog
Marc Andreessen is one of the founders of Mosaic and Netscape, which ended up being the world’s first widely adopted web browsers. Then, in 2009 together with Horowitz, he established the Andreessen Horowitz Venture Capital Company, which runs the A16z Blog.
While this venture capital firm invests in both early-stage start-ups and established companies, its cryptocurrency blog is unique in two main ways.
First, as one of the Bitcoin large scale investor pioneers, they speak well from the institutional angle of the crypto industry. Second, the A16z Blog does not shy to share market insights including critical information related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain, to truly offer one of the most balanced crypto blogs in existence.
Jimmy Song Blog
Like Vitalik Buterin, Jimmy Song was one of the pioneers of all things blockchain. Categorically, he was one of the first developers to work on the Bitcoin blockchain. In his Medium blog, he draws on his opinions and the knowledge gained from his involvement in blockchain projects, to provide a professional analysis on topics related to the blockchain space.
In some of the articles, his explanations are specifically meant for developers, to connect a blockchain idea to something related to programming. In other guides, he concentrates on explaining concepts, such as the real potential of Asset-Backed Tokens (ABTs) to the general audience. Generally, Song’s publications attain the right balance regarding the audience it caters to and the content they cover.
Multicoin Capital
For those who are searching for crypto hedge funds, then look no further. The Multicoin Capital blog regularly curates what it terms as the essential podcast about the blockchain industry crypto markets.
They mainly cover how to excel as a cryptocurrency investor using more traditional investing approaches, such as achieving the ideal alpha. In other words, they strive to inform both new and experienced cryptocurrency investors on how to beat the crypto waves. Due to this, it is considered as one of the best crypto blogs available.
Conclusion on the list of the best crypto blogs
By including these blogs in your bookmark, you will always be updated with blockchain, financial markets and cryptocurrency news from all over the world. These blogs and personalities were critically chosen since they have already established themselves as reliable and respected sources of information.
Remember, public sources can guide you only by analyzing data from different sources, questioning everything, and suspecting manipulation under every analysis of “unique” information and statistical facts.
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