In 2018, the blockchain did again and again the securities, mainly through the tumultuous cryptocurrency market, where bitcoins and other digital tokens have lost up to 80% of their value. The crash was not nice and threatened to compromise the DLT (distributed ledger technology) that supports bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
While the last year saw blockchain deployed in demonstrations of highly publicized concepts and pilot programs, the DLT remains largely unproven in production environments.
But that does not mean it does not have the potential to turn a lot of transactional business processes on their heads.
In 2019 and the next few years, the blockchain will likely evolve to include greater scalability and security, allowing applications such as mobile voting (as was the case in West Virginia in November) and supply chain tracking (as in international shipping). , food industries and diamonds).
With this scenario, here are the top five forecasts of venture capitalists, research laboratories, industrial foundations and leading analysts on where the blockchain is going and how it is expected to evolve.