In 2020 we’re beginning to see the emergence of the second generation of blockchain business applications that take a more pragmatic approach. There are many ways that blockchain can be used in a business context and perhaps shouldn’t. It is a complex multi-party system that can become a burden if…

As we approach the end of this decade, I thought it would be worth having an honest and impartial reflection on how enterprise Blockchain technology usage has evolved over the past five years, since the very first release of Ethereum and smart contracts, and examine where we’ve landed as an…

Today we’re launching an alpha release of a zero knowledge proof library that we’ve been developing for a while. K0 (pronounced “K-zero”) sets out to generate private digital assets compatible with multiple enterprise blockchains. What was the motivation behind building K0? We set out to solve two problems. 1. We felt that most enterprise blockchain platforms solve privacy…

My own personal career can be neatly divided into two parts: before blockchain, and after. — Before blockchain I worked as a developer, team lead and for many years as a solution architect for large enterprises. The term architect, like many terms in the software industry, including the term blockchain itself, is widely used, abused and misunderstood. I learned throughout my own career that there is…

At Applied Blockchain, we focus on blockchain and Smart Contracts (verifiable digital agreements based on blockchain). Our company is just two years old, but our team of developers has created blockchain applications that are already live in production environments in both startups and enterprises that operate around the world. — Applied Blockchain’s founding team has more than 20 years of experience in fields such as IT architecture, big data, and AI, to name a few. By drawing on their experience, Applied Blockchain can build solutions that meet enterprise standards for privacy, security, and integration.

This piece proposes concepts for designing a Private Blockchain Smart Contract Application. — Private: because we don’t want the whole world to access it, or take on the load Blockchain: because different entities that don’t necessarily trust each other need to transact Smart Contract: because we’re going to be implementing a workflow and share data between organisations that do not trust each other

Wishing you a happy, healthy and successful 2016! Here are my 14 blockchain predictions for the coming year. — The hype won’t last This time next year, not everyone will be talking about Blockchain. The hype will not last. Blockchain is at the peak of a tech hype cycle. As with any hype cycle, this will not last forever. In fact, by the end of 2016 it’s unlikely to be centre stage. …

You have raised some real issues with the current implementation of Ethereum. However, I think that most of organisations playing and building with Ethereum as a private chain today don’t believe that Ethereum, certainly not in it’s current form, will be their target platform. — The reason they’ve chosen Ethereum is because they see the potential of one particular feature: The Ethereum Virtual Machine. This smart contract implementation, together with it’s developer friendly Solidity programming language has sparked a great deal of interest as you know.

Everyone is looking for the perfect blockchain use case. There’s a lot of talk about blockchains, and there are a number of smart people working on improving the underlying blockchain platform technology (consensus algorithms, throughput). However, there are very few good use cases actually being built and realised using blockchain technology. — Smart Contracts A blockchain smart contract is a piece of code that defines the rules of a transaction. In the original Bitcoin blockchain, a transaction was defined as the transfer of cryptocurrency value from one account to another.