The business of storing enterprise data has gone through several technological revolutions over the last two decades. After on-prem storage came cloud storage (which enterprises initially resisted) and now, thanks to Filecoin and its competitors, comes blockchain-driven storage. The big question however (as with any blockchain discussion) has to do with the enterprise use cases to which Filecoin's "commercial" offering of an InterPlanetary File System-based (IPFS) solution is suited. At World Economic Forum 2023, Blockchain Journal's editor-in-chief David Berlind interviewed Protocol Labs' Director of Growth Stefaan Vervaet to learn not only about Filecoin's current view on that question but the long-term outlook as well. Protocol Labs is the research arm of the coalition that's responsible for Filecoin's technology and adoption.

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Monty Metzger is the CEO of enterprise blockchain consultancy LCX, based in the country of Liechtenstein, where many of the nation's regulations regarding blockchain are already in place (creating some certainty with respect to the legal operating conditions for companies like his). Blockchain Banking, the book that Metzger recently published is about how the balance of innovation, regulation, and everyday life will change due to digital currency. In the interview with Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind, Metzger that he has been heavily engaged with the World Economic Forum and several central banks as they experiment with the idea of Central Bank Digital Currencies and, based on his experience, tells us that many banks have a keen understanding of blockchain as well as how CBDCs might impact their currency strategies longer term.

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https://blockchainjournal.com/interview/lcx-ceo-monty-metzger-literally-wrote-book-blockchain-banking/

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Hedera is one of several Layer 1 public Distributed Ledgers talking to world and business leaders at World Economic Forum 2023 about the benefits and use cases for blockchain technology. But, according to Swirlds Labs Chief Marketing Officer Christian Hasker, enterprises are typically concerned with a different set of blockchain issues than are startups and smaller blockchain project developers. Swirlds Labs is the research and development arm of the multi-party coalition that's responsible for Hedera's technology and adoption. According to Hasker, similar to other technologies that enterprises include in their application stacks, scalability, performance, and cost should rank pretty high as issues when considering distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Disclosure: As reflected by its coverage of other layer one public ledgers, BlockchainJournal.com endeavors to be a fair, independent, and unbiased observer of the blockchain industry. It should be noted that, at the time this video was published, Swirlds Labs was an underwriter of Blockchain Journal.

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https://blockchainjournal.com/interview/hedera-describes-criteria-enterprises-should-consider-when-investigating-blockchain/

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At World Economic Forum 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind catches up with Avery Dennison market development manager Neil Hay who describes how the $8B multinational enterprise uses blockchain to provide atma.io, a cloud service offering that helps the global giant provide supply chain transparency to some of the largest consumer goods companies in the world (and their customers).

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As enterprises begin to adopt blockchain technology in order to optimize their systems and processes in ways that simply cannot be done with other technologies, the likelihood that their customers will know or care could be low. After all, once deployed in enterprise fashion, blockchain typically occupies a fabric-like spot within the organization's enterprise information technology stack. In other words, not necessarily at the customer-facing surface. And there's no industry where this could be more true than in the telecommunications and carrier business where the sorts of integrations that make it possible for people to call or text their friends and families across different carriers are fraught with technological and settlement challenges due to lack of a single source of truth. As Syniverse Sr. Distinguished Engineer of Emerging Technologies Monique Morrow explained to Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind at World Economic Forum 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, both Syniverse (which itself is in the SMS fabric of hundreds of carriers) and the GSM Association (GSMA) where she chairs the GSMA-Distributed Ledger Technology Group have a pretty clear understanding of the business problems that blockchain can solve in the telecommunications industry.

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https://blockchainjournal.com/interview/how-sms-messages-and-other-carriergrade-services-could-be-moving-enterprisegrade/

The video can also be watched on Blockchain Journal's YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1hDvagNAM