Blockchain Articles by Futurist Mark van Rijmenam

How Blockchain Will Change Organisation Design

Organisations adopting blockchain [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/blockchain-transforming-your-business-our-world-now-available/] technologies can be viewed as Human-Machine Networks (HMNs), where combinations of humans and machines interact with each other. The more an organisation [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/how-build-organisation-of-tomorrow/] moves towards a ‘Decentralised Autonomous Organisation’ (DAO) design, the more efficient and autonomous it will

How Security Tokens Could Change Liquidity and Transform the World’s Economy

Traditionally, assets such as real estate, collectables and art have been relatively illiquid. This means that the asset cannot be easily bought or sold in the market. If an investor wants to sell a $100 million building, it usually will take some time before the investor has the money, if

Why Ricardian contracts, not Smart Contracts, are Blockchain’s Killer Application

Smart contracts have been dubbed the killer application of distributed ledger technology. Within every industry, smart contracts will provide significant efficiency benefits. They will reduce transaction times between stakeholders from weeks to minutes or seconds. Especially within global supply chains [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/blockchain-becoming-gold-standard-supply-chains/], smart contracts will kickstart data-enabled

What is a Security Token Offering (STO) and Could it Replace the ICO?

In 2017 [https://www.icodata.io/stats/2017], there were 875 Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), raisingUS$6,23 billion, which equals on average US$7,12 million per ICO. In 2018 [https://www.icodata.io/stats/2018], there were 1257 ICOs that raised US$7,85 billion, which comes down

Why the Crypto Winter is Good for Blockchain

In April 2017, the total market cap of the cryptocurrency market was US$25 billion. Nine months later, on January 8, 2018, the market cap reached its highest point of US$813 billion. A staggering increase of 3252% in just nine months. However, one month later, as of February 6,

2018 in Review: The Year of Transition is Over

Last year, I called 2018 the Year of Transition [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-technology-trends-for-2018/4085] because technological developments are accelerating, but they had not yet reached the state of full maturity. Indeed, artificial intelligence did leap forward, with Uber [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612470/uber-has-cracked-two-classic-80s-video-games-by-giving-an-ai-algorithm-a-new-type-of-memory/?utm_source=datafloq&

3 Reasons Why You Should Not Use Blockchain in Your Organisation

For the past years, blockchain has been a huge buzzword. Especially after the crypto hype of 2017, organisations were convinced that they had to do something with blockchain [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/what-is-the-blockchain-and-why-is-it-so-important/]. If only it was changing your company name to include blockchain in it. Although we have are

Why Blockchain is Quickly Becoming the Gold Standard for Supply Chains

Global supply chains are complex processes. Different companies, with distinctive objectives, are working together to achieve a common goal; to bring something from A to B. For a supply chain to work, partners have to trust each other. To do so, there are multiple checks-and-balances, extensive documents and different checkpoints

How to Improve the Customer Experience with the Intelligent Enterprise?

If you take care of your customers, your customers will take care of your shareholders. It is that simple. To create value for your shareholders, you should focus on your customers. Offering your most important stakeholder what they need, when they need it. Unfortunately, many organisations fail to recognise the

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions: Seven Use Cases

With blockchain technology advancing, enterprises are starting to see the benefits of distributed ledger technology. Here are seven use cases of enterprise blockchain solutions.