For the West Virginia pilot, they are operating a permissioned blockchain built using the Hyperledger Framework, with about thirty known nodes, or vote validators, made up of different stake holders, such as the Secretary of State, universities and members of different political parties.
And Oracle's service is built using the open source Hyperledger Fabric, so it can integrate with other blockchains based on open standards.
Earlier this year former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas left Ripple to found Coil, another distributed ledger production house aimed at helping companies build using the Interledger blockchain interoperability tool and the XRP crytpocurrency.
To generate that data, both IBM and Maersk are running a node on the distributed ledger built using IBM Blockchain, with each of the ocean carriers also expected to plug in.
Decompany will be using the blockchain to build a global and monetizable version of Slideshare, utilizing network effects and a lone currency for transactions.
That's why leaders like Roy Huang, cofounder of Fresco, and Jess Houlgrave, cofounder of the Codex Protocol, are already using the blockchain to build decentralized registries for fine art.
The users' privacy is preserved in the bitcoin exchange by using the blockchain.
BitNation, a blockchain-based Governance 2.0 initiative, is using the blockchain to help refugees in Europe.
This creates trust using the blockchain.
The UAE government is organizing the largest virtual blockchain hackathon in history to push the limits of what's possible using the blockchain.
