Assessing Use Cases

Potential Use Cases

Record Keeping

• Static Registry – Land title, Food Origin, Patent
• Identity – Identity Fraud, Civil records, Voting
• Smart Contracts – Insurance, Trading, Music

Transactions

• Dynamic Registry – Fractional investing, Supply Chain
• Payments – Cross-border, Claims
• Other - ICOs

Assessing Costs & Benefits

Benefits of blockchain technology?

• What problem or ‘pain point’ is being solved for stakeholders? For a company?
• What value is being created or captured?
• What are competitors doing to address similar ‘pain points’?
• Why is blockchain technology the best solution?

What are the specifics of the blockchain use case?

• Which costs of verification or networking can be reduced?
• Which transactions need recording?
• Which stakeholders need write and read access to ledgers?
• What is the customer interface and how is it better than current interface?

Costs of technical challenges and transition?

• What tradeoffs of scalability, performance, privacy & coordination are necessary?
• Can Permissioned blockchain adequately address use case?
• How can broad adoption be realized?
• Are net benefits sufficient?