This document discusses various blockchain use cases and projects by IBM. It provides 23 examples of blockchain applications for industries like trade finance, payments, supply chain, food safety, healthcare, energy, and more. For each one, it summarizes the key details including what the application does, how blockchain enables it, and the main benefits. The document aims to demonstrate how IBM is working with clients across sectors to develop blockchain solutions for real-world problems.

1. Blockchain Carlos Rischioto
Blockchain Technical Leader
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2. “What the internet did
for communications,
blockchain will do for
trusted transactions.”
— Ginni Rometty
IBM Chairwoman and CEO
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3. Blockchain
Concepts

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Other types of blockchain exist
• The first blockchain application
• Defines an unregulated shadow-currency
• Resource intensive
• Blockchains for business are generally permissioned and
private, and prioritize:
• Identity over anonymity
• Selective endorsement over proof of work
• Assets over cryptocurrency
is an example of an
unpermissioned, public ledger:

7. Blockchain
Use Cases &
References

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What?
• Digital Trade Chain (DTC), is a blockchain-based international
trading system for a consortium of major world banks including:
Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société
Générale, Santander, UniCredit and Nordea
• Enables accurate trading posture information, order to settlement
control, risk coverage, track and trace options
Benefits
• Near-real time exchange of information on a secure platform that
digitizes transactional financing and other complex processes
• Continual business and compliance readiness in any regulatory
environment
• Scalability that allows for rapid international expansion as business,
regulatory, and security opportunities converge
Trade Finance

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What?
• A universal rail for real-time clearing and settlement on an integrated
Blockchain network
How?
• Collaboration between IBM and technology partners Stellar.org and KlickEx
Group
• Initial participants include over 13 financial institutions
Benefits
• Create secure, high volume, low-cost cross-border payments services
without sacrificing margins
• Access new markets and currencies with limited risk
• Generate new sources of revenue with value-added products and services
• Aim: near real-time international payments
Accelerating Global Payments

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What?
• Reimagine current expensive audit process requiring
integrating data – often inconsistent and outdated - from
various sources on the blockchain
How?
• Shared replicated ledger serves as single point of truth
• Auditors are guaranteed that no one has tampered the data
via immutability of blockchain
Benefits
• Clients, bank and regulators all see single version of truth
• No data inconsistencies => clear audit trail
• Enables efficient lower-cost Asset Quality Reviews (AQR)
Financial Audit and Compliance Ledger

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What?
• IBM Global Finance provides a $41bn channel
financing per year. There are a number of disputes
that take time to resolve and can lock up
transactions costing time and money
How?
• Blockchain provides visibility and provenance end-
to-end across supply chain
Benefits
• Reduced dispute resolution time by 75%
• Released working capital from $100m
• Combine IGF and Supplier info to further expand
benefits further
• In production since Sept 2016
Global Financing: Dispute Resolution

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What?
• Infrastructure supporting private equity has seen little innovation in recent
years at a time when investors are seeking greater transparency,
security and efficiency.
How?
• Creation of an innovative private equity ecosystem designed to
deliver increased efficiency, security and transparency.
Benefits
• Provides real-time insight and transparency to all parties, including the
fund managers and investors.
• Designed to allow regulatory access as required.
• Support compliance of local regulations.
• In production
Private Equity Administration

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Common KYC Data
What?
• View of customer identity to enable compliance with Know Your
Customer (KYC)
How?
• A complete view of customers' documents across a distributed
network
Benefits
• Creation of a single but cross-businesses KYC platform to inform all of the banks processes.
• Crédit Mutuel Arkéa could enable its customers to deliver proof of their identity to third-parties such as
local utilities, retailers or regulated service providers.

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What?
• New experience for consumers to effortlessly sign-on to digital services,
while remaining in control of their identity attributes.
How?
• No central database or identity honeypots
• No central point of failure
• “Triple Blind” data sharing – PRIVACY
Benefits
• Institutions that participate in an ecosystem benefit with increased
customer satisfaction, reduced risk in identity theft, and new revenue
sources to institutions
Digital Asset Providers
and Consumers
Trusted Identity

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What?
• Track diamonds across supply chain from mine to retail
How?
• Shared ledger for storing digital certification with
supporting material
Benefits
• Protect against the occurrence of fraud, theft, trafficking
and black markets
• Assist in the identification and reduction of synthetic
stones being labelled as authentic
• Increase speed of transparency for cross border
transactions for insurance companies, banks and
claimants
Legitimize Diamonds and Reduce Fraud

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What?
• An open, extensible platform for sharing shipping events,
messages, and documents across all the actors and
systems in the supply chain ecosystem.
How?
• Providing Shared Visibility and Shared State for
Container Shipments
Benefits
• Increase speed and transparency for cross border
transactions through real time access to container events.
• Reduced cost and increased efficiency through paperless
trade
Provider of interface:
value-add partners
Event publishers
& subscribers
GTD
Platform
Customs
Dashboard
Logistic actors
internal systems
Supply Chain
Visibility systems
Port community
systems
Transportation
management
Shippers
Authorities
Trade Associations
Carriers
Supply Chain
Actors
Terminals
Supply Chain
Management
Global Digitized Trade

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Fresh Turf is a Singapore-based startup that is
working with IBM to tackle the challenges with
last-mile fulfilment in retail logistics.
To help solve this void in the market, Fresh Turf
turned to the IBM Garage, immersing in a unique,
user-centric approach with IBM Design Thinking
to design which helped to rapidly identify and
build the Minimum Viable Product to test their
hypothesis.
“We chose IBM because they are a global leader
in building blockchain on the cloud, with vast
experience in blockchain projects around the
world and across multiple industries. IBM Cloud
is also the most convenient way to test a
blockchain network on the cloud.”
– Kevin Lim, co-founder, FreshTurf
Blue Lockers
Red Lockers
Yellow Lockers
Yellow Logistics
Red Logistics
Blue Logistics
Learn and read more at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgS8jBwSX3c
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/ibm-partners-singapore-start-up-freshturf-to-use-ibm-cloud-
and-blockchain-technologies-for-secure-storage-lockers-network-56215
Fresh Turf
Last-mile fulfillment in Retail Logistics

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What?
• Provide a trusted source of information and traceability to
improve transparency and efficiency across the food
network.
How?
• Shared ledger for storing digital compliance
documentation, test results and audit certificates network.
Benefits
• Reduce impact of food recalls through instant access to
end-to-end traceability data to verify history in the food
network and supply chain.
• Help to address the 1 in 10 people sickened and 400,000
fatalities WW which occur every year from food-born
illnesses.
Food Trust

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Brazil - BRF & Carrefour
What?
• Allows safe consumption to consumers by
providing information from field to the table
information in real time
How?
• Shared ledger for BRF and Carrefour to track
product from BRF and DC factory until Carrefour DC
and store, using QR code reader
Benefits
• Reduce impact of food recalls through instant
access to end-to-end traceability data to verify
history in the food network and supply chain.
• Provide information about product quality and
production, warehouse and transportation
conditions

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Brazil - Belagrícola

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IBM Blockchain

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BikeBlockchain

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What?
• Tennet must match supply & demand of electricity. This new era of renewable energy meant
that existing systems are under strain to keep up.
• New battery technology enables a new near-instantaneous source of
power to adapt to requirements
How?
• The blockchain presents the operator from Tennet with a view of the
available pool of flexibility, ready to activate at the push of the button
• This then signals batteries in Electric Vehicles connected to the grid
(Vandebron) or distributed power banks in consumers homes (Sonnen)
Benefits
• Giving the flexibility to match supply & demand
• Rapidly understanding the resources available
Renewable Energy Flexibility

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EV Charging
DSO
Meter
Operator
Car
Retailer
Charging
using a
Private
Socket

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Certificates of Origin
Accelerate the energy transition to meet international climate agreements
Registration of the decentralized
sustainable energy production.
Why?
1. To get more insight in
sustainable energy
production amongst
prosumers
2. To create a solid
foundation for small
scale GO trade
3. Trigger more consumers
to become prosumers
Prosumer
How?

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What?
• Create and promote a secure, efficient and scalable
exchange of health data using blockchain technology.
How?
• Blockchain technology will be used to create an
electronic ledger of where and how data is transferred
and exchanged
• Initial trial focus on oncology data
Benefits
• Creating an audit trail through the ledger, healthcare
professionals will be able to:
– hold information leakers accountable
– maintain transparency in what data is going where
– secure weak spots in the sharing process
IBM and FDA Partnership

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What?
• Track the chain of custody of the EHRs and how they
are stored, accessed and moved through the lifecycle
in compliance with specific governmental regulations
• Manage consent and sharing of EHRs
How?
• Each participant agrees to capture the access and
storage of EHR data on the blockchain
• Blockchain creates single view of the EHR reference
data
• Include consent model so that owners of data can
quickly and easily provide consent for others to access
their data and then record consent to avoid dispute
CDC: Reference Data Chain of Custody & Consent for EHR

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Electronic Health Records
Streamline processing
Direct visibility from all parties
Control
EHRs can not be accessed
without patient’s consent
Security
Unlike traditional systems, security in
Blockchain is hardened from ground up
Accessibility
All EHRs in one place
Transparency
Regulators can monitor activities
and detect abusive practices
Privacy
Only authorized parties can see EHRs
and only what they are supposed to see
Provenance
All records can be
traced back to origin
Accountability
Patients know the parties who
have access to their EHRs, and
keep them accountable

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Health Insurance Claim
– No need for counter-party mediation
– Smart Contract between Provider /
Patient / Payer
• Faster coordination of benefits
• Faster underwriting process
• Reduces claim disputes
• Patients have visibility into claim processing
• Patients have visibility into available benefits
• Faster billing resolution
– Eliminates EHR Inconsistency

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Traceability
What?
• Provide easy traceability of aircraft sub-systems and
parts test certifications to airlines and regulators
Challenges
• Delay in commissioning a new or repaired aircraft without
accurate, easily accessible detailed certification
• Regulator and compliance challenges especially without
timely availability of maintenance records
Benefits
• Reduces time to commission a new or repaired aircraft as
accurate detailed certification information is uploaded by
responsible parties to the Blockchain
• Regulator has full visibility
• Faster turnaround times for aircraft maintenance as
documentation flow gets digitized
• As an aircraft part or sub-system moves through the
plant, certification test result is sent to the ledger
• Connect shared ledger with IoT devices and document
management system for an automated process

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Automobility Industry
Trace the provenance of
products and parts
across supply chains.
“Targeted Recalls”
Enable manufacturers to
maintain an accurate and
auditable record of all
software packages ever
installed on their vehicles
Securely share vehicle
usage patterns between
OEMs, fleet companies,
insurance companies and
Lessee.
Portable Mobility Profile Handle a wide range of
mobility-related
payments & maintaining
secure access to the
vehicle by various users
Supply Chain
Software Defined
Vehicle
Car Leasing/ Sharing
Car Wallet

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Making blockchain real for business…
Trade Finance Pre and Post Trade Complex Risk Coverage
Identity/ Know your customer (KYC) Unlisted Securities/ Private Equity Funds Incentive Program
Medicated Health Data Exchange Government Distributed Energy/ Carbon Credit
Supply Chain Food Trust Provenance/ Traceability

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Carlos Rischioto
Blockchain Technical Leader
carlosr@br.ibm.com
rischioto

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