Rhizom: Connecting the world through traceability
Thanks to the vulgarization of very abstract notions of physics, today almost everyone has a vague idea of some of their boldest theories. Thus, an obscure and rather experimental terrain of it such as Chaos Theory today has some insertion in popular culture.
Take, for example, what is known as the Butterfly Effect, quite a bold attempt to account for the impact that tiny initial changes can have to the broader and more distant effects within extremely intricate and extensive systems. Turning to the details and elucidating the origin of the name, he refers to a metaphor: a phenomenon of immense scale like a tornado, observed at a given place and time, could count among its determining actions of origin even the simple fluttering of wings. a butterfly at a totally different time and place.
It may seem absolutely detached from both the actual reality of things and the subjects we normally deal with here, but if we keep in mind the fact that we are thinking of systems and their internal dynamics, of the ways forces and objects move in and through them, We can see that the essential here is to discover how things interconnect, their flows and paths.
And, whether we like it or not, systems govern our lives in ways we can barely see, much less escape, which is extremely positive for us to live collectively with a minimum of harmony and organization. And if we take into account the multitude of needs and wants that dominate and guide us, we see that they are essential for us to achieve common goals together.
Systems
A market is a system, just like a production chain or a network of computers, and therefore the main feature they share is a relative stability of their components and a certain predictability of their movements. This allows us to observe how they behave impressively accurately, ascertaining their efficiency or even their integrity, so that we can assess the risk involved in every transaction or operation performed therein and even determine the moments of circulation of things within their parameters and perimeters.
They are the fruit of the most rational kind of human action, and they respond to a very primal urge to bring order to all the chaos-ruled realms of reality, establishing a modicum of control so that corollaries obey a minimum of predictability.
A market is a system in which goods and wealth are exchanged according to internal rules accepted by participants; A production chain is a system in which certain materials will be transformed following methods that establish the quality of the objects produced there; A computer network is a system in which data and instructions are exchanged and processed in order to perform tasks of varying complexity.
Blockchain
Returning to our concrete reality, let us think about the characteristics of these three models we provide and what they share: a limited number of elements, a pathway and a defined range of expected results. Now, if we think about the countless instances in which they work together and immediately notice that practically everything we create and exchange today results from their intertwining. Each productive chain we create has as its determining factor a market and as a structuring factor a computer network, the first of which gives it an objective purpose while the second provides it with operational stability.
The most varied industries that make our world work depend not only on systematization in order to operate from the most elementary levels, but also on computers that regularly and effectively perform the tasks necessary to do so. These processes have been going on for more than forty years in essentially the same way, which is surprising if we consider the tremendous improvement in the technical resources involved during this period and especially how instantly communication between the most distant parts of the globe occurs today.
But what if there were a new methodology applicable to the various formats that these systems assume in that same effective reality that we mentioned at the outset? What if we could imagine it fully integrated in such a way that everything circulating inside can be identified, located and evaluated according to reliable parameters agreed upon by all the agents involved?
Not only does blockchain enable us to accomplish all these tasks in more efficient and faster ways, but it also allows us to do so in a coordinated and simultaneous manner, material and immaterial goods of all kinds can be tracked in real time by all participants of a given productive and distributive circuit. Which in practice means that all those responsible and interested in the status of any product or data inserted in the structured network in this architecture can have access to them.
Traceability
As we begin to glimpse the applications of all of this at the most tangible level of our daily activity, it becomes apparent how much this architecture can contribute to updating those processes. For example, it is simple to conceive of how a product whose origin must be known and controlled, because certain important characteristics of its composition or origin determine its possible uses, can benefit from the advantages that this architecture brings.
Through unchanging and transparent registration, such a crucial aspect as quality can be inferred and certified in real time throughout each instance of extraction, production and distribution that can make up one of these chains. In addition, access to essential information about routes and objects is made more dynamic, solid and flexible, offering tracking capabilities previously only considered in fictional or theoretical logistics scenarios.
Thanks to blockchain’s virtualities, we now live in a reality in which the connection between the information flows and the physical world they represent is almost immediate, allowing us to follow procedures that unfold over vast temporalities and huge spaces.
To deal with an erratic reality like ours, especially when dealing with sensitive materials and materials, we must at least map out routes, record itineraries, pinpointing the beginnings, means, and ends of delicate transactions. After all, the care and precision that blockchain makes possible and accessible is welcome when applied to some of the primordial activities that control the balance between scarcity and abundance, perishable and perennial, expensive and cheap, reliable or unreliable.
Of course, we have not yet been able to trace all the forces present in a large-scale phenomenon as a tornado from the wing motions of a tiny being, but we can ascertain virtually every moment of the structured and considerably less complex systems that make up our networks, our routines.
Conclusion
In the face of the ever-growing supply chains that interconnect the globe, profound transformations in their functioning become pressing. These are what the blockchain brings in its midst and will revolutionize the management models, execution processes and operating resources that structure the industry. This is exactly what our ecosystem presents as a possible and viable future, through an unchanging, completely decentralized, audit trail based on real-time query for all transactions with maximum efficiency.
However, it is worth remembering here that this is exactly what differentiates it from other platforms that present themselves as alternatives and fail to offer these innovations in their entirety such as DLTs or what is commonly called the contradictory name ‘permissioned blockchains’. These concepts are often used by computer conglomerates — IBM, Oracle, and others — to sell more products similar to what they already offer by labeling them with the term blockchain without incorporating its principles, as these services are devoid of purpose. and processes of the fundamental precepts described above. These, after all, make simple distributed computing much more conducive to the purposes discussed so far.
Moreover, even compared to other protocols with these differential properties, Rhizom has solved some common bottlenecks, making it more effective in tracing a wide range of goods across a wide range of verticals. In technical terms, this has resulted in a direct decrease in transaction and registration costs and a significant increase in transaction processing rate scalability per second. All of this through original design based on an permissionless system and not limited in block size bottlenecks. In practical terms, this has brought us closer to a more transparent and reliable reality, coordinated on a world scale.
