Blockchain technology is enabling the next stages of the internet by allowing for a "Web of Value" where digital assets can be programmed with unique identities, histories, and relationships. Blockchains are being applied to track the provenance of diamonds throughout their lifetime journeys, reducing fraud costs for insurers. They are also being used to tokenize securities like public equities, debt, and real estate, creating programmable ownership and payments that enable new forms of financial leverage. Those interested in getting started should consider projects where multiple parties need to validate shared data, a single group shouldn't own that data, or where decentralized architectures provide benefits like efficiency or resiliency.

1. Blockchain Technology
Simon Wilson - Developer Decentralize & CTO Redgrid
www.decentralize.global - www.redgrid.io

2. Hardware
50s & 60s
Software
70s & 80s
Networks
90s & 00s
Blockchains
10s & 20s
Commoditization
Time
The Web of
Information
The Web of
Value

3. Today
Application Layer
Protocol Layer
Value/Information
Captured
Tomorrow
Protocol Layer
Application Layer
Value/Information
Captured
Data Communications

5. Give anything physical a
Digital Identity
Unique History
Unique relationships
Unique Identity
● Unique Personality
● Independent Decisions
● Globally Accessible

6. How is it being applied!

8. Tracking provenance for over >2Mn
Diamonds over their lifetime journey!
Provenance fraud costs Insurers $50Bn
US Annually.
Digital fingerprint of every diamond.
Platform for use by global shipping
logistics eco-system.
$4Tn industry, WEF est. reducing trade
administration processes could
reduce costs by 15% ($600Bn)

9. Tokenized
Securities!
Tokenized assets = Programmable Ownership = Programmable Payment = financial leverage
Public Equities - ~$75Trillion
Debt - ~$215Trillion
Real Estate - ~$215Trillion
Derivatives - ~$550Trillion

10. How to get started!

11. Get your feet wet and get ahead of the
competition!:
1 - Are there multiple parties that need to validate and agree on
data?
2 - Is it inappropriate that a single group ‘own’ that data?
3 - Does a decentralized architecture provide efficiency, cost,
and/or resiliency benefits?

12. ● simon@decentralize.global
● www.decentralize.global
● www.redgrid.io
● @simwilso
● @_decentralize