Blockchain Takes Off
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/blockchain-takes-off/
Oct 23, 2017 - This research looks at innovation to improve the passenger experience in terms of ticketing efficiencies, frequent flyer rewards, and passenger compensation and to maximize crew flight bookings, maintenance, safety record keeping, the capacity of charter flight, and efficiencies in cargo, customs, and clearing.
Keyword: air traffic control,
augmented reality,
cargo,
customs,
digital ID,
EASA,
FAA,
frequent flyer,
IATA,
ICAO,
Lufthansa Systems,
MRO,
pilot training,
RampVR,
transportation
Can Blockchain Help with Gun Registries
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/can-blockchain-help-with-gun-registries/
Jun 02, 2020 - Countries with universal background checks and gun registries experience significantly fewer gun-related deaths. As a highly encrypted, tamper-resistant, and decentralized database, distributed ledger technology has the potential to serve as a distributed registry of guns. DLT could allow gun buyers to prove a lack of a criminal record (the equivalent of a background check) without giving up personal information. This survey of the blockchain landscape highlights several start-ups such as VeriTransfer and BitRail that are experimenting with DLT to do for firearms provenance what other blockchain innovators have done with food, cannabis, and p...
Keyword: Armchain,
BitRail,
BlockSafe,
FAABS Project,
government,
GunClear,
Guniary,
law & regulation,
National Instant Criminal Background Check System,
National Rifle Association,
Open Application Network,
SDG 12,
SDG 16,
SDG 3,
SDG 9,
VeriTransfer
The Coming Cataclysm
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-coming-cataclysm/
Sep 30, 2019 - This research explores the disruptive effects of blockchain technologies on central banking and the financial services industry. Its author discusses Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, and how the other FAANG companies—that is, Amazon.com, Apple, Netflix, and Google—might respond with their own digital tokens. He introduces five transformations—cryptoassets, the tokenization of everything, blockchains as state machines, a new model for identity, and the nine forms of decentralized finance. He examines the challenges that incumbents and innovators face during this transition; and he previews the world of financial services in th...
Keyword: Abra,
Christine Lagarde,
CoinShares,
Corda,
Cosmos,
Facebook,
Fidelity,
financial services,
J.P.Morgan,
Libra,
MakerDAO,
Mark Carney,
Quorum,
Ripple,
SDG 10,
SDG 9,
stablecoin,
YouNow
Introducing Asset Chains
File Type: Document, Infographic, Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/introducing-asset-chains/
Nov 28, 2017 - With case studies on Moog, Merck, and Sweetbridge, this project uncovers how to optimize supply chains for greater responsiveness and transparency with confidentiality, achieve network scale and efficiency, and approach autonomous supply chain functions with the industrial Internet of Things.
Keyword: Animal Ventures,
industrial Internet,
logistics,
management,
manufacturing,
network state management,
procurement,
SDG 12,
SDG 17,
supply chain,
trade finance
