The origins of blockchain as many are familiar with it today can be traced back to the Bitcoin whitepaper, first published in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, which offered a vision of a new financial system underscored by cryptography and trust in code.

Throughout the past decade, iterations of this technological infrastructure have gradually built out a diverse industry ecosystem, allowing for use cases that extend beyond cryptocurrencies and peer-to-peer transactions. From smart contracts to asset tokenization, across industries ranging from gaming, supply chain, Internet of Things (IoT), real estate, and many others, the proliferation of use cases across verticals are a testament to the technology’s inherent versatility.