Blockchain Explained V

Use Case – Aircraft Maintenance
What?
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Provenance of each component part in complex 
system hard to track
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Manufacturer, production date, batch and even the 
manufacturing machine program.
How?
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Blockchain holds complete provenance details of each 
component part
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Accessible by each manufacturer in the production 
process, the aircraft owners, maintainers and 
government regulators.
Benefits
1.
trust increased no authority "owns” provenance 
2.
improvement in system utilization 
3.
recalls "specific" rather than cross fleet
Why? 

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Use Case – On Line Gaming
What?
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Game player wants to trade “gold” earned in 
current game for the currency or assets of another 
game 
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Use experience with the current game to put me 
ahead and not have to start cold in the new game
How?
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Blockchain holds tokens of value shared across on 
line gaming platform
Benefits
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Transparency to game player,
game owners & 
infrastructure providers
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E
ffi
ciencies through elimination of intermediaries
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Increased trust for all involved parties.
Why? 

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Other Potential Use Cases include . . 
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Securities
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Post-trade settlement
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Derivative contracts
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Securities issuance
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Collateral management
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Trade Finance
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Bill of Lading
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Cross-currency payment
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