While financial use cases of blockchain technology are in 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
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