Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Blockchain Help can resolve the network problems


Business Networks benefit from connectivity
– Connected customers, suppliers, banks, 
 partners 

– Cross geography & regulatory boundary 

• Wealth is generated by the flow of goods & services across business network 

• Markets are central to this process: – Public (fruit market, car auction), or

– Private (supply chain financing, bonds) 


Transferring Assets, building Value
• Anything that is capable of being owned or



controlled to produce value, is an asset 

• Two fundamental types of asset 
 – Tangible, e.g. a house

– Intangible e.g. a mortgage 


• Intangible assets subdivide – Financial, e.g. bond
 – Intellectual e.g. patents

– Digital e.g. music 


• Cash is also an asset

– Has property of anonymity 


Ledgers are Important • Ledger is THE system of record for a business
– records asset transfer between participants.
• Business will have multiple ledgers for multiple business networks in which they participate.
• Records all transactions across business network 
 • Shared between participants 

• Participants have own copy through 
 replication 

• Permissioned, so participants see only appropriate transactions 

• THE shared system of record
•
Participants, Transactions & Contracts • Participants - members of a business
network

– Customer, Supplier, Government, Regulator – Usually resides in an organization

– Has specific identities and roles

What?
• Transaction - an asset transfer

– John gives a car to Anthony (simple)

• Contract - conditions for transaction to occur
– If Anthony pays John money, then car passes from John to

Anthony (simple) 
 What is Blockchain ?
A shared ledger technology allowing any participant in the business network to see THE system of record (ledger)





Blockchain and Bitcoin . . .
1. is unregulated, censorship-resistant shadow currency
2. Blockchain ensures “cash like” coin passing • unique,
• immutable,
• final

3. Bitcoin is the first Blockchain application

• Blockchain is not

4. Digital currencies different from cyptocurrency

Smart Contract
• Business rules implied by the contract . .



• . . embedded in the Blockchain & 
 • executed with the transaction 

• Verifiable, signed 


• Encoded in programming language 

• Example: 

– Defines contractual conditions under which corporate Bond transfer occurs 


Security :-
••
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Ledger is shared, but participants require privacy Participants need:

– Transactions to be private 

– Identity not linked to a transaction 

Transactions need to be authenticated Cryptography central to these processes 


Validation
• Transaction verification & commitment



• When participants are anonymous – Commitment is expensive 

– Bitcoin cryptographic mining provides verification for anonymous participants but at significant compute cost (proof of work) 

• When participants are known & trusted – Commitment possible at low cost 

• Multiple alternatives
– proof of stake where fraudulent transactions cost



validators (e.g. transaction bond) 

– multi-signature (e.g. 3 out of 5 participants agree) 

Patterns for Customer Adoption
(1) INTERNAL LEDGER
• Ledger for internal reporting, audit and compliance,
• Consistent view of key business assets, • Provenance, immutability & finality more
important than consensus.
• Access to auditor and regulator
(2) CONSORTIUM SHARED LEDGER
• Created by a small set of participants
• share reference data between themselves and consumers.
• Consistent real-time view of key information © 2016 IBM Corporation (3) INFORMATION HUB

• A ledger set up in a single organization 

• Sharing of information between participants 
 (e.g. voting, dividend notification) 

• Assets have information, not financial value, 
 • Require provenance, immutability & finality. 

(4) HIGH VALUE MARKET 

• Ledger for the transfer of high financial value assets 
 • between many participants in a market. 


• Requires all enterprise features of Blockchain Use Case – Letter of Credit
What?

• Bank handling letters of credit (LOC) wants to offer them to a wider range of clients including startups 

• Currently constrained by costs & the time to execute 
 How? 

• Blockchain provides common ledger for letters of credit 

• Allows bank and counter-parties to have the same validated record of transaction and fulfillment 

Benefits 

• Increased trust


• Increase speed of execution (less than 1 day) • Vastly reduced cost 

What?
• Bank holding a corporate debt would like to

– pay vendors quickly for transactions validated by the client – allow the corporate client to see the payment is made

– provide government with oversight of the process

How?
• Blockchain provides a common ledger for recording the

corporate debt / bond, 

• available to bank, corporate client, vendors & government. Benefits

• Speeds up vendor payments bigger net discounts

• Eliminates risk and accelerates decision making 


• Owning bank can spread the cost across each market. 
 What?
• Value of connected smart devices limited by ability to interact with business systems
How?
• Blockchain to manage automated interactions with the

external world 

• ordering and paying for food to arranging for its own software upgrades and tracking its warranty. 

Benefits

  • .  1. business value from connected technology 

  • .  2. efficiencies in network and supply chains. 

  • .  3. status transparent to all network members 

What?
• Consumers demanding transparency on where and how their products are made.
• EU requires more information about corporate supply chains, with penalties for non-compliance.
How?
• Blockchain enable safe digital transfer of property across the end to end supply chain.
Benefits
  • .  1. verifiable, preventing any party from altering 

  • .  2. efficiencies through greater transparency 

  • .  3. consumers can make informed purchases 

  • .  4. governments get reliable information 

    What?
    • Provenance of each component part in complex system hard to track

    • Manufacturer, production date, batch and even the manufacturing machine program.
    How?
    • Blockchain holds complete provenance details of each component part 

• Accessible by each manufacturer in the production process, the aircraft owners, maintainers and government regulators. 
 Benefits
  • .  1. trust increased no authority "owns” provenance 

  • .  2. improvement in system utilization 

  • .  3. recalls "specific" rather than cross fleet 

    What?
    • Game player wants to trade “gold” earned in current game for

    the currency or assets of another game 

    • Use experience with the current game to put me ahead and not have to start cold in the new game 

    How? 

    • Blockchain holds tokens of value shared across on line gaming platform 


    Benefits 

    • Transparency to game player, game owners & infrastructure

    providers 

    • Efficiencies through elimination of intermediaries 
 • Increased trust for all involved parties. 


    Other Potential Use Cases include . .
    • Securities

    – Post-trade settlement – Derivative contracts


– Securities issuance

– Collateral management

• Trade Finance

– Bill of Lading

– Cross-currency payment

• Syndicated Loans

• Intra-bank settlement

© 2016 IBM Corporation
• Retail Banking

– Cross border remittances

– Mortgage verification

– Mortgage contracts (smart contract)

• Public Records

– Real estate records

– Vehicle registrations

– Business license and ownership records

Enterprise Integration What?
• Customer realizes full benefit of Blockchain solution by scale up, scale out and enterprise integration
How?
• Full range of consulting, system integration & project skills

• Extension of Agile from Proof of Concept

• Integration into customers existing systems and business processes • Metrication to prove Return on Investment

Commercial?

• For fee

. 1. Blockchain is a shared, replicated ledger technology 


  • .  3. Blockchain can open up business networks by taking out cost, improving efficiencies and increase accessibility 

  • .  4. Blockchain addresses an exciting and topical set of business challenges, which cross every industry 

  • .  5. Linux Foundation Hyper ledger project developing open source, open standards shared ledger technology 

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