Blockchain’s utility season

Written by Brian O’Beirne, Director of Research at Kasei Holdings PLC

In October 2019, Gartner Inc. noted that its Hype Cycle for Technological adoption showed that blockchain was sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment and that the market would begin to climb out of this Trough by 2021. So now that we are in 2022, it’s worth asking like an impatient child in the back seat of the car on a long road trip…. “are we there yet”? Are we nearing the oft-glorified phase of mass adoption when businesses start using blockchain in their day-to-day operations? The current consensus seems…