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How Will Ethereum Blockchain Technology Benefit Your Business?
Ethereum is a global, open-sourced blockchain platform for decentralized applications. Its battle-tested architecture and unrivaled programmability enables enterprises to build secure and customizable business networks and applications at scale.
Ethereum delivers the following features:
- Automatic execution. Streamline business processes through programmable transactions and real-time clearing and settlement.
- Advanced security. Mitigate risk with tamper-proof data coordination and granular security controls.
- Trusted business networks. Quickly deploy permissioned networks with shared business logic and customizable governance.
- Digital asset management. Rapidly create and manage digital assets and instruments.
- Production grade. Manage a compliant blockchain platform at scale with zero downtime.
In the five years since its inception, Ethereum has optimized business processes along global trade supply chains, increasing operational efficiency by 99.58%. It has activated digital financial instruments for real estate investment funds, working toward reducing minimum investment amounts to $1. It has deployed blockchain-based identity management systems to help governments improve transparency and accountability. And it has forged connectivity across 7,100 islands, driving financial inclusion for over 70 million individuals.
Leading enterprises are already realizing the benefits of Ethereum blockchain solutions for use cases across multiple industries. Our explainers, case studies, webinars, and industry best practices will help you get up to speed on what Ethereum can do for your organization and will prepare your business to integrate the world’s most powerful blockchain into your stack.
Introduction
What is Enterprise Ethereum and how it is transforming financial institutions, governments, and conglomerates around the globe?
What is Enterprise Ethereum?
Learn MoreEnterprise Ethereum refers to private, consortium, and hybrid implementations of the Ethereum codebase for business applications.
What is the EEA?
Learn MoreThe EEA is a member-driven standards organization built to develop open blockchain specifications that drive harmonization and interoperability for businesses and consumers worldwide.
6 Questions to Ask When Considering Blockchain Solutions for Enterprise
Learn MoreThe foundational queries innovative developers and IT managers must ask when looking to integrate blockchain technology into enterprise.
Use Cases
Here are what we believe to be the most pertinent blockchain use cases for enterprises and governments
Capital Markets
Blockchain technology has fundamentally changed the way financial institutions are exchanging value and building market infrastructure. Here’s a closer look at how this new technology is transforming capital markets and the specific benefits for a wide range of market participants.
Central Bank Digital Currencies CBDC
CBDCs offer central banks unique advantages at the retail and wholesale levels, including increased financial access for individual customers and a more efficient infrastructure for interbank settlements.
Digital Identity
A blockchain-based digital identity system provides a unified, interoperable, and tamper-proof infrastructure with key benefits to enterprises, users, and IoT management systems. The solution ensures protection against theft, assures companies storing customer information, and provides individuals greater sovereignty over their data.
Energy and Sustainability
Oil and gas companies suffer from siloed infrastructures and several issues concerning transparency, efficiency, and optimization. Enterprise-grade blockchain solutions can significantly increase process efficiencies and reduce costs associated with oil and gas operations and distribution.
Finance
Financial services struggle with archaic operational processes, slow payment settlements, limited transparency, and security vulnerabilities. Blockchain enhances the efficient digitization of financial instruments, which increases liquidity, lowers cost of capital, and reduces counterparty risk.
Government and the Public Sector
Ethereum’s encrypted ledger and smart contracts allow governments to build trust, improve accountability and responsiveness, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and create high-performing government functions with more secure, agile, and cost-effective structures.
Healthcare and the Life Sciences
Blockchain-based healthcare solutions will enable faster, more efficient, and more secure medical data management and medical supply tracking. This could significantly improve patient care, facilitate the advancement to medical discoveries, and ensure the authenticity of drugs circulating global markets.
Law
An enterprise-grade blockchain solution can alleviate the heavily-manual processes of today’s legal system. Enterprise Ethereum will help address the estimated 9.8% loss in total productivity that manual operations costs a law firm every year by providing accessibility, transparency, cost savings, speed, efficiency, and data integrity.
Media and Entertainment
Piracy, fraud, and intellectual property theft of digital items cost the entertainment industry an estimated $71 billion annually. Blockchain technology can create a distributed ledger to track the life cycle of any content, which has the potential to drastically reduce piracy of intellectual property, protect digital content, and facilitate the distribution of authentic digital collectibles.
Real Estate
Enterprise Ethereum enables the digitization of assets and financial instruments. This enables fractionalization of ownership, expanded access to global markets, increased liquidity, and democratized access to real estate investment opportunities.
Retail Fashion and Luxury
The pace of the retail fashion and luxury industry is rapidly accelerating with the ever-changing demands of consumers. Blockchain technology stands to address long-standing industry challenges by improving data management tools, enhancing supply chain operations, and reducing the risk of counterfeit and grey markets.
Social Impact
Blockchains lend themselves to re-establishing fairness in a modern economy of continual exploitation. An estimated 20-25% of funds globally are lost to corruption at the government level, intermediaries take up to 7% of global remittances, and modern fintech solutions fail to include the 1.7 billion global unbanked adults.
Sports and Esports
Ethereum enabled smart contracts can streamline existing esports operations, provide new revenue models, and enhance fan engagement with enhanced loyalty programs and incentives.
Supply Chain Management
Distributed ledger infrastructure stands to address the challenges of existing global supply chains that are inefficient, poorly tracked, and oftentimes exploitative. Blockchain facilitates accurate asset tracking, enables enhanced licensing of services, products, and software, and ultimately improves transparency into the provenance of consumer goods, from sourcing all the way to the point of consumption.
Syndicated Loans
Global capital markets handle billions of dollars in syndicated loans annually. The large size of these loans requires the involvement of many banks and financial entities, resulting in increased liability and cost from manual stakeholder coordination. Blockchain technology digitization and standardization provides solutions unique to the problems faced by the syndicated loans market.
Webinars
Free on-demand webinars about industry applications, flagship projects across the globe, and best practices for enterprise adoption
Industry Applications of Enterprise Ethereum
The Universal Token for Assets and Payments
Learn about a unique Ethereum standard for both centralized and decentralized finance use cases.
A New Era for B2B Process Automation
Learn how your company can use blockchain technology and the Baseline Protocol to save on costs and improve the integration of existing systems of record with our panel of industry experts.
Syndicated Loans and Blockchain Technology
An introduction to building blockchain-based solutions for the syndicated loans market.
How to Launch a Central Bank Digital Currency on Ethereum
Practical considerations for implementing CBDC.
What Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Stablecoins Mean for the Future of Money
Learn the fundamentals of CBDC and the benefits, challenges, and implications for central banks, payment service providers, and global economic infrastructure.
The Future of Finance: Digital Assets and DeFi
A discussion on the macro financial and technological trends that are contributing to the exponential growth in decentralized finance.
The Tokenized Future
Tokens have taken the world and media by storm with not only businesses issuing their own digital assets, but also famous celebrities like Akon and Manny Pacquiao. Learn more about tokens in this informative webinar.
Blockchain and the Future of Commerce
How does blockchain simplify and automate commercial transactions?
Stablecoins
The ability to use a secure, transparent ledger without a central intermediary has captured industries, the media, and even global economies. However, the value of cryptocurrencies fluctuate on a daily basis making it terribly volatile. This is where stablecoins come into play.
Blockchain Beyond the Hype: Real Use Cases
In this webinar we'll set aside the hype and dig into real business use-cases of Blockchain that are already disrupting the finance and banking sectors. With a special guest from Fnality International.
The Future of Real Estate Investing
How blockchain and digital assets are revolutionizing real estate funds and property investing.
Best Practices for Enterprise Blockchain Adoption
Introduction to ConsenSys Quorum
Look back at Enterprise Ethereum's progress to date, walk through our new product offerings, and share our product roadmap and vision for the future.
Private Networks on Ethereum: Updates to Privacy on Hyperledger Besu
This webinar explains the difference between privacy and permissioning in blockchain solutions, private networks vs. the public Ethereum mainnet, and concludes with a demo of Hyperledger Besu's latest feature, Privacy Groups.
Enterprise Ethereum in 2020
Learn more about the path to Enterprise Ethereum adoption in 2020. We will look back at key developments in 2019, showcase current flagship projects, and share why we believe 2020 will be a key year for Enterprise Ethereum.
What You Need to Know Before Building Enterprise Applications on the Blockchain
Learn how production systems like Codefi Orchestrate can help manage transactions, improve smart contract security and audits, and ensure your blockchain applications are highly available.
How to Ensure Your Blockchain Solution is Production Ready
Our ConsenSys Quorum team reviews critical factors to consider when selecting your Ethereum client.
Enterprise Blockchain Radically Simplified with Truffle and Kaleido
Easily deploy your dapps with the Truffle development framework on a Kaleido private chain.
Building Blockchain Solutions for the Enterprise with Truffle
Explore Truffle components and how to train yourself and your dev teams.
Kaleido: Production Blockchain Insights for the C-Suite
Real-world use cases on accelerating from proof of concept to production.
Simple Private Transactions on Enterprise Ethereum
The Adhara team gives a simple explanation of private transfers with examples.
How to Leverage Plugin APIs on Hyperledger Besu
With the Plugin API for Hyperledger Besu, you can now connect the blockchain to the rest of your infrastructure with ease.
Network Data Analytics and Reporting with Alethio
Alethio is a powerful data analytics platform that allows you to get deep insights into the Ethereum blockchain and smart contract data. Find out more.
Case Studies
Real-world case studies exploring industry-changing Ethereum blockchain solutions
Commerce and Finance Case Studies
Mata Capital: Catalyzing real estate investments with blockchain technology
Blockchain for real estate asset management. French investment fund, Mata Capital, partners with Codefi Assets to tokenize three funds worth a combined total of €350m, promoting trust, transparency and efficiency for real estate investors.
HMLR: Exploring real estate asset tokenization in the UK
Using Codefi Assets, ConsenSys customized a digital asset management platform for Her Majesty’s Land Registry in under 3 weeks. The platform demonstrates real asset tokenization as part of HMLR’s exploration of blockchain technology in the UK real estate industry.
MythX: Facilitating cryptocurrency subscription payments for enterprise
Cryptocurrency subscription payments with Codefi Payments product, Daisy. This initiative enabled MythX to integrate a cryptocurrency payment solution to allow an easy on-chain payment alternative to fiat options.
komgo: Bringing commodity trade finance into the 21st century
Blockchain for Commodity Trade Finance. Komgo is a secure, blockchain-based platform that is optimizing financing processes and accelerating industry operations for the world’s largest commodity trade and finance companies.
August Debouzy: Introducing joint security token offering services
Blockchain for Law. A partnership between August Debouzy law firm and ConsenSys to offer asset managers, investors, distributors, and enterprises a joint Security Token Offering (STO)* service.
Project i2i: Driving financial inclusion in the Philippines
Blockchain for Payments. Project i2i is an Enterprise Ethereum payment network built in partnership with Unionbank of the Philippines. The i2i platform integrates rural banks into the domestic financial system, improving banking access and efficiency for local citizens.
Project Khokha: Pushing the limits of interbank payment settlement with blockchain
Blockchain for Central Banking. Project Khokha is a real-time gross settlement solution built on Enterprise Ethereum by the South African Reserve Bank in consortium with seven commercial banks.
Project Ubin: Exploring the potential of distributed ledger technology in central banking
Blockchain for Banking. Project Ubin is a consortium blockchain effort led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore reimagining institutional infrastructure by implementing real-time gross settlement systems with full transaction privacy, settlement finality and no single point of failure.
Supply Chain Case Studies
AURA: Proving authenticity for luxury products
Blockchain for Supply Chain Management. AURA is a consortium blockchain pioneered by the LVMH Group to track and trace luxury goods— from raw materials to the point of sale, to second-hand markets — in order to assure consumers of product history and proof of authenticity.
komgo: Bringing commodity trade finance into the 21st century
Blockchain for International Trade. Komgo is a secure, blockchain-based platform that is optimizing financing processes and accelerating industry operations for the world’s largest commodity trade and finance companies.
Government and Identity Case Studies
Smart Dubai: Using blockchain to forge a seamless city experience in the UAE
Blockchain for Smart Cities. Smart Dubai is an initiative spearheaded by His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, seeking to make Dubai the happiest city on earth by leveraging blockchain, AI and IoT technology.
EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum: Accelerating blockchain innovation in Europe
Blockchain in the European Union. An initiative led by the European Commission aiming to support and accelerate the development of the blockchain ecosystem in the EU.
Zug Digital ID: Introducing civil identity on the blockchain
Blockchain for Digital Identity. Pioneered by the Zug government, this initiative grants a digital, decentralized, sovereign identity to each Zug citizen. Citizens can verify their identity, cast votes, and access government services from the comfort of their homes.
Insight Reports
Research and insights from the engineering and infrastructure leaders at the forefront of the enterprise blockchain ecosystem.
Insights and Whitepapers on Financial Services
The Q2 2020 Ethereum DeFi Report
A review and analysis of DeFi protocols and performance in Q2 2020 by ConsenSys Codefi.
Ethereum Proof of Work Mining Report
This report provides insights into the performance of Proof of Work and mining on the Ethereum network since its launch in 2015. The report identifies relevant on- and off-chain events and analyzes how PoW and miners responded to and were affected by network changes.
The Complete Guide to Blockchain Business Networks
This guide is designed for enterprises that want to understand the proven benefits of decentralized networks for business use cases and how they compare to traditional business networks.
Eth 2.0 Staking Ecosystem Report
A user report on the landscape of existing ether holders and their intentions, preferences, motivations, and pain points regarding staking on the Ethereum 2.0 network.
Ethereum Decentralized Finance Report
This report provides insights into the performance of the Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem in Q1 2020, and how specific protocols and users responded to market events in the first three months of the year.
DeFi User Research Report
A recent report commissioned by ConsenSys Codefi examines user habits with regard to cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi).