Smart contracts and business rules: The keys to revolutionary blockchain use cases - The developerWorks Blog

The blockchain wave is gathering strength. More and more enterprises are embarking on concrete initiatives, either alone or in collaboration with their peers, their business partners, their clients, or their suppliers. Most of the use cases I've seen so far, apart from a couple of exceptions, are exploratory and mostly focus on using blockchain as a shared and trusted database of assets and transactions. The really interesting use cases that realize the exponential and disruptive benefit of the blockchain are yet to come. The most visionary players have revolutionary use cases in their roadmaps, but right now, enterprises are taking foundational steps necessary to pave the way for innovative use cases that might disrupt entire industries.