Disruptive Blockchain Applications in Selected Industries (1 of 2)

Disruptive Blockchain Applications in Selected Industries (1 of 2)

Proof Point

Companies exploring blockchain applications in various industries to improve transparency, increase efficiency, enhance security, remove intermediaries, and enable new business models

Disruptive Blockchain Applications in Selected Industries (1 of 2)

Proof Point Findings

  • Supply Chain and Logistics – Allows monitoring of progress across all supply chain stages, reducing delays in production, ensuring product authenticity, and enabling faster issue resolution
  • Real Estate – Offers full transparency of transactions, such as loans and transfer of ownership, and eliminates third-party verification providers, reducing fraud and speeding up purchase or lease process
  • Healthcare – Helps drive adoption and streamlining of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on national level, providing physicians and other medical professionals easy and secure access to patient’s complete medical history
  • Retail – Provides efficient way to validate authenticity of products and complete transactions, eliminating fraudulent activities, such as scams and counterfeits
  • Energy – Creates decentralized platform for distributed energy transactions, becoming basis for metering, billing, and supply management, as well as facilitating integration of producers and consumers into grids
  • Insurance – Maximizes efficiency of underwriting and claims processes, eliminating fraud, reducing operating costs, and enabling new insurance business models, such as P2P insurance

Accelerator

Market Disruption

Sector

Cross-sector

Source

Date Last Updated

April 24, 2017

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