30 Non-Financial Use Cases of Blockchain Technology

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30 Non-Financial Use Cases of Blockchain Technology
« on: May 12, 2018, 11:39:05 PM »
30 Non-Financial Use Cases of Blockchain Technology

While financial use cases of blockchain technology are at the spotlight due to the significant interest of powerful parties – banks, investors, and even governments– non-financial use cases of DLT are of equally significant importance to a number of industries. Along with banks and FinTech startups, non-financial players have been paying attention and looking for ways to leverage the opportunities that DLT opens. Let’s look at some interesting examples of the applications of blockchain technology beyond financial services:

Authorship and ownership: Bitproof, Blockai, Stampery, Verisart, Monegraph, OriginalMy, Crypto-Copyright, Proof of Existence, Ascribe, Po.et

Birth and death certificates: Khanections, LLC

Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS): Ethereum Blockchain as a Service by Microsoft Azure, Rubix by Deloitte, IBM Blockchain on Bluemix

Compliance and security: Chainalysis, Third Key Solutions, Tradle, Vogogo, Elliptic, Coinalytics, Sig3, BlockSee,CryptoCorp, Blockverify

Content management/distribution: Brave, Bittunes, PeerTracks, JAAK, Paperchain

Data management: Factom

Data integrity and security: PeerNova, Guardtime

Decentralized social network: Datt, DECENT, Diaspora*, AKASHA, Synereo

Diamonds: Everledger

Digital identity, identification, and authentication: Keychain, 2WAY.IO, ShoCard, Guardtime, BlockVerify, HYPR,Onename, Civic, UniquID Wallet, Identifi, Evernym, BanQu, AID:Tech, SolidX

Energy: Energy Blockchain Labs, Grid Singularity, TransActive Grid by LO3 Energy

Enterprise-grade solutions and development platforms (infrastructure): XNotes Alliance, Tymlez, Symbiont, Sofocle,Pragmatic Coders, OTCXN, Openchain, Nuco, Monax, Libra Enterprise, Interbit, Credits, Colu, Ciphrex, ChromaWay,ChainThat, Chain Reactor, Chain, Bloq, BlockCypher, Blockchain Foundry, BigchainDB, Avalanchain, Applied Blockchain, AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform

Esports: FirstBlood

E-voting: Follow My Vote, Estonia’s e-Residency platform

Gaming and gambling: Etheria, First Blood, Etheramid, FreeMyVunk, CoinPalace, Etheroll, Rollin, Ethereum Jackpot

Government and organizational governance: BITNATION, Advocate, Borderless, Otonomos, BoardRoom, Colony

Internet of Things (IoT): Databroker DAO, Chronicled, Filament, Chimera, Filament, Stock.it

Job market: Verbatm, Appii, Satoshi Talent, Coinality

Land registry: The Dubai Land Department (DLD)

Licensing: license.rocks

Media: Publiq

Mining: Waves

Network infrastructure: Ethereum, ChromaWay

Open organization/business-related collaboration: Colony

Operating system: BloqEnterprise by Bloq, BOLOS by Ledger, EOS by block.one, DeOS by Razormind, GemOS by Gem, Vault OS by ThoughtMachine

Real estate recording: UBITQUITY, Silvertown

Reputation verification and ranking: The World Table (Open Reputation), ThanksCoin

Ride-share: Arcade City, La ‘Zooz

Supply chain management: Skuchain, Factom

Traceability of food products and supply chain audit: Provenance

A more comprehensive overview of financial and non-financial use cases of blockchain technology can be found in the MEDICI report titled Blockchain Use Cases: Comprehensive Analysis and Startups Involved. Information on over 400 blockchain-focused startups operating around the world can be found in MEDICI, FinTech’s global knowledge network.

Source: https://gomedici.com/30-non-financial-use-cases-of-blockchain-technology-infographic/
Nafees Imtiaz Islam
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Ph.D. Candidate in International Trade
University of Dhaka

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