Unfinished Business - Measuring Blockchain’s Financial Services Benefits and Mapping Its Future

The value in today’s business case for DLTs no longer relies purely on the perfection of the technology. Several years on from its introduction in late 2014, the “locomotive” of blockchain—and its power to transform—is mostly proven and accepted. 

Rather, the question now has more to do with determining a standard gauge, not only by ironing out interoperability among chains, but also by pulling critical elements of existing market infrastructure into the fold.

This white paper examines the results of a recent survey conducted by WatersTechnology in association with SmartStream. It aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around DLTs and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at hand.