Presentation by Thomas Marckx from The Ledger during the ARENA Blockchain event hosted by Knight Moves.

1. Arena
Thomas Marckx – theledger.
Part of theCronos Group

2. ThomasMarckx
thomas.marckx@theledger.be
Blockchain ‘dude’
@ThomasMarckx

3. Let’s start your blockchain adventure
TRAIN • ADVICE • PROTOTYPE • BUILD
COMMUNITY
TECHNOLOGY • EDUCATION • BUSINESS

4. “Privacy is the foundation
of free societies”
- Don Tapscott

5. “A lack of transparency result in distrust
and a deep sense of insecurity”
- ‘the’ Dalai Lama

6. 塊鏈

7. DEcentralisation

8. The Internet of Information

9. Information VS Assets

10. Subjective theory of value
Value by witness
Consensus by witness
Trust by witness

11. Business by
Blockchain !

12. Auditeur
$
BANK
Company BCompany A
Company C Company D
Inefficient – Expensive – VulNerable

13. Auditeur
$
BANK
Company BCompany A
Company C Company D
Consensus – Provenance – Immutability – Finality

14. a mechanism to draw
fact-based conclusions
In an auditable way

15. CONTRACT
CONTRACT
Third party
Asset Transfer

16. CONTRACT
CONTRACT
ASSETTX

17. Decentralized
Immutable
Database

18. PEER
PEER
PEER
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PEER PEER

19. The Internet of Assets

20. PEER
PEER
PEER
PEER PEER
School B
School A
STUDENT
Company
Bitcoin Diploma

21. But wait, there’s more

22. CONTRACT <contract>1
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Smart Contract

23. ‘REAL’ Smart contracts
Self-executing contractual
(consistent) states, a.k.a.
distributed business logic
Abstracting distributing
programming to represent
meaningful social or
commercial contracts (beyond
simple coin exchange
between two parties)
Trusted, shared execution
Smart Contracts
Cryptographic tokens with
programmatic behaviors
Programmable currency DAO
Same code + same data =
same result
Implemented smart
contracts and smart
property as trusted tamper
proof code on a blockchain
Smart properties
Digital Assets that
understand their ownership
and can be exchanged P2P
Physical Assets, a Ledger
of Things, linking smart
contracts to IoT

24. PEER
PEER PEER
PEER PEER
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25. The Internet of Automation

26. It’s not a database !

27. WhERE is it relevant?

28. Proof of ownership
COntracts
Payments / PRICING / accounting
Digital profile
ASSET Tracking
CROSS Sector

29. USE CASE
Public sector
Voting

30. Distributed Ledger network
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
Smart contract
ballot
USE case – Voting

31. USE CASE
Cross industries
E-commerce

32. USE case – e-commerce
<contract>1
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</contract>
STORE
€$
¥

33. Identity
& KYC

34. Validated IDentity
Trust by Technology
Trustworthy by Reputation
(Government, Banks, …)

35. Competent
4 life

36. Competences sharing
Confirm
competence

37. To the future and beyond…

38. Short term future
2015 2016 - 2017 2018 - 2024 2025 •••
Explorationand
development
Early adoption Growth maturity
Initial capability and use-
case assessments
Early adaption likely for
internal reconciliation
Leading banks see the
value and begin begin
deployments for asset
classes bilaterally traded
and/or have no central
clearing authority
Regulatory certainty
drives adoption for
external uses
Regulatory authorities
realise the benefits for
auditing and compliance,
rule-making begins
Banks begin to see the
benefits experienced by
early adopters and
combined with regulatory
guidance and certainty the
network effect takes hold
New service providers and
models emerge
Deployments go viral across
numerous asset classes
New products/services are
created; incumbent
processes/services are
discarded
Blockchain adoption is
considered mainstream
and integral to the capital
markets ecosystem

39. Questions ?
Shout !

40. … let’s play with blocks
http://blockchainbelgium.be
http://theledger.be @wearetheledger
Veldkant 33B
2550 - Kontich
info@theledger.be
+32 479 52 61 10
B-Hive / Eggsplore – Identity
Tele-ticketing – sale & resale of tickets
Digipolis– Competence registration

41. Blockchain evolution
Blockchain 1.0
Blockchain 2.0
Blockchain 3.0
Digital currency : the deployment of cryptocurrencies in applications
related to cash transfers, remittances and payment systems
State machine / distributed DB
Digital contracts (shared P2P business logic): the entire panoply of
economic, market and financial applications using the blockchain and
that are more extensive (complex multi-party) than simple currency
transfers: i.e. stocks, bonds, futures, loans, mortgages, titles, smart
property (IoT + Blockchain) and smart contracts (code deployed on
blockchain)
Digital applications beyond Fintech (currency, finance, markets). Areas
such as government, health (records), science, literacy, culture, art…

42. Blockchain 3.0
Skynet is coming

43. Middle term future – WEB 3.0
Decentralized web hosting via blockchain tech
Ownership of website
No more ddos attack
Real privacy (bye bye nsa)
We talk with or via smart contracts, not through centralized servers
Dao’s
Distributed autonomous/automated organizations
Rise of sentient enterprises on a blockchain
Everyone a sans-papiers
Combination with other technologies
e.g. Iot, machine learning

44. Long term future – WEB 3.0
CRYPTO ECONOMy 3.0 – The ROBOCORPS
Tradenet
Robocorps, DAO’s en DAC’s
Taxis, government, Agencies
Distributed Autonomous Government
Virtual realityand the blockchain
Liquid Currencies

45. Proof-of-Concept
2
Production

46. Think
Is it a Use-case?
Stakeholders?
Requirements
Workshop Collaboration
Digital token
Smart contract
sandbox
Integration
Front-end
Iterations
Live
Blockchain
environment
Next steps
build Deliver

47. Technologies everywhere
Hyperledger - Fabric
Ethereum
Multichain
Bigchaindb
Hyperledger - Corda
NEM
Aeternity
Hyperledger - Irohu
Hyperledger
- saw tooth lake

48. … blockchain READY!
MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS
START WITHA ‘FEW’ NODES
GROW NETWORK – ADD MORE NODES
INCREASE DECENTRALIZATION
MULTIPLE FUNCTIONALITIES
START WITH‘ONE’ FUNCTION– E.G. Simple Asset registration
Grow application– more complex smart contracts
INCREASE automation

49. PEER
PEER
PEER
PEER PEER
The SANDBOX experience Blockchain-Ops
Cloud solutions
IBM – 4 hyperledger fabric nodes
+ 1 memberschip services
Microsoft – 10+ Ethereum nodes
+ Mining nodes
On Premise
Hyperledger Fabric
Ethereum
Bigchaindb
Combination possible
Monitoring tools available

50. ’Howdy … partner
Microsoft
IBM
Chainthat
HOWEST
JURU
Consensys