Blockchain Articles by Futurist Mark van Rijmenam

NFTs and Luxury Brands: How Blockchain Technology is Transforming the Luxury Industry

NFTs offer great opportunities for the luxury industry, from disrupting every aspect of luxury retail to brand authenticity & customer loyalty.

Moving to a Tokenized Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

Our economy is slowly transitioning to a tokenized economy, but the road ahead is full of challenges that we must collectively overcome.

Decentralising the Web: The Time is Now

Last week, Frances Haugen revealed what most of us already knew; recommendation algorithms are toxic and those employed by Facebook in particular. As usual, Zuckerberg shrugged and dismissed the claims as nonsense, and so he continues to rule over Facebook as a ruthless dictator with no respect for the people

The Top Five Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 – The Year of Digitalism

If there is one thing that 2020 taught us, forecasting which trends would define the next year remains a challenge. Very few would have believed me if I had written that by mid-2020, the majority of organisations would work from home. Nevertheless, several of the trends I predicted last year,

Why Polkadot Will be a Catalyst for Decentralised Apps

Before September 2020, Polkadot was virtually unknown to the ordinary investors. By November 2020, it had a market cap of $5 billion. It has become the biggest conversation in blockchain technology. There are several good reasons for the massive interest in this blockchain. Top of these reasons is that it

How Blockchain Can Prevent the Spread of Fake News

What’s the current state of blockchain and “fake news”? In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the supposed rise in “fake news [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/problem-misinformation-bad-bots-online-trolls-coronavirus/]”: a term that can cover everything from satire and misleading content to articles that are completely fabricated.

Token Financing: How Tokenization Will Change the Economy

Token financing has the opportunity to change the world economy drastically. Security tokens will enable organisations to bring real-world assets online, and decentralised finance (DeFi) [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/decentralised-finance-change-world-economy/] aims to replace all existing financial services by decentralised solutions. One class of security tokens [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/security-tokens-change-liquidity-economy/

How Decentralised Finance Will Change the World's Economy

Blockchain offers many new solutions for existing applications. Two of the most exciting applications are supply chain and finance. Blockchain will be the gold standard for supply chain [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/blockchain-becoming-gold-standard-supply-chains/], and it will revolutionise the current financial system. Decentralised Finance (DeFi) will make a game-changing impact on

How Purpose-Driven Tokenisation Will Enable Innovative Ecosystems

2Tokens organized a second roundtable to discuss how to enable tokenised ecosystems from different perspectives.

Clarifying the Path to Tokenisation

2Tokens focuses on realising value from tokenisation and this is a summary of the first round table discussion on tokens.