Blockchain

Conclusion

While the question of the blockchain, as an emerging technology, does not lend itself to a conclusion in the strict sense of the term, it nevertheless seems useful to identify its prospects and the elements that will be decisive in its generalization or not to entire segments of society and the economy.

Although the blockchain is largely, for the time being, experimental in its most innovative uses, this technology appears to have a rare potential for social and economic transformation. The disintermediation allowed by its decentralized architecture puts users at the heart of the system in terms of both governance and value distribution. The encouragement of maintenance, development and communication around the platform and first investment are strong drivers for the deployment of blockchain projects designed with a tokenization strategy. This tokenization appears as a structuring element of public blockchains and the essential tool for their expansion.

The blockchain offers a new paradigm, disintermediated, open, and secure for the Internet and more generally for human interactions. Many blockchain projects promise to radically transform current business models and replace meta-platforms, hegemonic intermediaries of digital 2.0. However, beyond the essentially commercial projects and the possibilities opened up in terms of interbank transactions and fundraising, the blockchain opens the path to new ways of thinking about societal and social projects, by renewing ...