1. BLOCKCHAIN, BEYOND THE HYPE?

2. THE HYPE
1. New currency paradigms
2. Decentralization
3. Disintermediation
4. Optimize inefficient business processes –
even common ones such as audits
5. Reduction of risk/increased accountability
6. Digitization of everything
7. FOMO

3. BY THE NUMBERS – As of Aug, 2018
1. PwC's 2018 Global Blockchain Survey
2. Cowen Report, May 24, 2018
3. Annop Nannra, head of Cisco’s blockchain initiative
84%
Companies that have
blockchain initiatives 1
5.9
Number of years for
blockchain to gain
widespread adoption 2
10
Years until blockchain
prevalence in Supply
Chain 3
5 to 25
Years until blockchain
prevalence in Financial
Services 3

4. BY THE NUMBERS – As of Aug, 2018

5. THE PARADIGM TODAY
Ethereum blog by Vitalik Buterin: https://blog.ethereum.org/author/vitalik-buterin/

6. HISTORICAL ENTERPRISE ADOPTION
80%+
Others

7. CURRENT TREND

8. DO YOU NEED BLOCKCHAIN?
The four pillars of enterprise blockchain:
1. Shared
2. Distributed
3. Secure
4. Ledger

9. BLOCKCHAIN CHALLENGES
“Bringing the Network Together”
1. People
1. We lose things
2. We have fat fingers
2. Lack of accountability
3. Decentralization provides broad scale, but at
great cost
4. Shared data across an enterprise is problematic
5. Regulatory/Compliance uncertainty

10. BLOCKCHAIN DISRUPTION
INNOVATION
Versus
REGULATION

11. ORGNAIZATIONAL BARRIERS TO
GREATER INVESTMENT IN BLOCKCHAIN
TECH

12. BLOCKCHAIN FINTECH INNOVATION
1. Ripple
2. Alternative Currencies/Stablecoins
1. USD Coin (USDC) – Goldman Sachs
2. LBXPeg – London Block Exchange
3. Editable Blockchains
4. GDPR
1. Data geo boundaries
2. Right to be Forgotten