Christine Avanessians, Senior Manager of the Azure Blockchain Engineering team at Microsoft, joins us to talk about Microsoft’s new framework called Coco – a first-of-its-kind innovation that is accelerating enterprise readiness of blockchain. Blockchain, as explained by Christine, is a mechanism for secure multi-party computation that enables organizations to evolve business models and processes. Christine discusses how Microsoft is using Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) to add scalability, privacy, and confidentiality to blockchain transactions. For more information on Microsoft and Intel’s work on blockchain and Coco, please visit http://azure.microsoft.com/blog.