The State of Global Blockchain Consortia

The State of Global Blockchain Consortia

Back in 2000, business-to-business consortia marketplaces were all the rage. They quickly became popular in every industry segment possible. The premise was that the Web could enable a new level of collaboration among industry players to streamline B2B transactions, and eliminating redundant processes. At the height of their popularity, there were close to 200 such initiatives, with hundreds of companies as their respective industry members. Following the dot-com crash, almost each one of these initiatives folded, for one reason or another, and only two survived. The theory of B2B....


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