Nascent technology: Resolving challenges such as transaction speed, the verification process, and data limits will be crucial in making blockchain widely applicable.

Uncertain regulatory status: Distributed ledger technologies and cryptocurrencies face a large hurdle in widespread adoption by pre-existing financial institutions and potential users if government regulation status remains unsettled. Questions have to be resolved by regulators especially as regards their use as asset or money, the conditions for initial coin offerings, their leveraging for transaction processing platforms especially when they can disintermediate regulated third party intermediaries, the enforcement of smart contracts in court, etc.

The link between physical and digital: Some assets or transactions, such as books, music, and money transfers, are already digital or easy to digitalize. For others, such as physical arts or parcels, the link between physical assets and their digital representations - often called “tokens” - can only be made through integration with additional technologies such IoT with RFID chips.

Large energy consumption: Bitcoin blockchain network’s miners are attempting 450 thousand trillion solutions per second in efforts to validate transactions, using substantial amounts of computer power.

Data protection: With the new European regulation on data privacy (GDPR), Blockchain will have to implement the right to be forgotten, as all the transactions are recorded in the blockchain and cannot be deleted. A possible solution can be to anonymise the information sent to the blockchain. But blockchain implementers must keep in mind that GDPR cannot override other regulation, like MiFID II and Anti Money Laundering laws, and their associated record keeping requirements.

Cultural adoption: Blockchain represents a complete shift to a decentralized network which requires the buy-in of its users and operators.

Integration concerns: DLT application offer solutions that require significant changes to, or complete replacement of, existing systems and business processes. In order to make the switch, companies must strategize the transition.

• We organise and participate in workshops to present the concepts around blockchain and discuss the potential impact on your industry and business
• We assist you in defining your strategy, business and operating models by analysing the market trends and your organisation’s internal potential
• We design use cases to help you qualify the extent to which distributed ledger technology is better suited than traditional technologies

• We will select and use the most appropriate platform to realise your vision from the design phase to go-live
• We are highly experienced working with smart contracts and the automation of processes across a distributed workflow architecture

• We offer a proven process and framework to support you with rapid and agile prototyping, as well as technology demonstrations
• Our cross-functional teams can develop proofs-of-concept for a variety of industries and mature them into production-ready solutions, using our framework of prebuilt assets and development kits

• Thanks to our expertise with IT systems and DLT, we can assist your business to overcome the challenges of implementing blockchain technology and integrating it with your IT systems