This document discusses how blockchain can be used to solve real business problems. It outlines potential blockchain applications such as financial settlements, identity safety, and data verification. It provides an approach for developing blockchain solutions, including identifying the use case, choosing a public or private blockchain, and writing secure smart contracts. Finally, it discusses successful industry implementations and tips for ensuring blockchain business solutions are successful.

2. Solving Real Business Problems
with Blockchain
Aman Ali Pogaku
Certified Blockchain Expert
Wright State University

3. The Need for Blockchain in Business
• Are the diamonds real?
• Asserting Ownership.
• Trusting the System.
• Democratizing the Markets.

4. Potential Blockchain based Business Applications
• Financial Settlements.
• Store of Value.
• Identity Safety.
• Information Security.
• Data Verification.
• Fair Automation.

5. Approach
• Identify the use-case.
• Choose between Public Blockchain vs Private Blockchain.
• Have a suitable architecture. Fully decentralized vs Hybrid.
• Write a Secure Smart Contract Code.
• Suitable Consensus Mechanism.
• Have a Incentive Design for improving public participation.
• Offer it as “Blockchain as a Service”.

6. Sample Use-Cases
• Identity Theft Protection.
• Incentive Management System.
• Resume Tracking.
• Food Tracking.
• Royalty Management.
• Billing System.
• Education Platform.

7. Successful Industry Implementation
• Walmart and IBM are developing a food supply chain on
Blockchain.
• EY is disrupting Wine Industry with EY Ops Chain.
“Blockchains port the market model into places where it couldn't go
before.”~Naval Ravikant

8. How not to be in the “90%”
• Decentralization Trilemma: Scalability, Security &
Decentralization.
• Market Research.
• Proper Incentive Design.
• Proper Marketing.
• Proper Investing Methods.

9. Q & A