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Blockchain identity market to grow $3.58B by 2025, report claims

A new report on the potential for blockchain identity management solutions to become integrated across sectors has forecast strong growth for its global market, at a compound annual rate of close to 71%. The report grounds its predictions on a study broken down into segments by sector — e.g., government, healthcare, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), geography, and applications. It was published by the Lyon-headquartered market research solution provider ReportLinker.  Drawing on an analysis of several existing blockchain identity management market vendors — Accenture, Amazon, Bitfury Group, Civic Technologies and others — the report expects the total global market to grow by $3.58 billion between 2021 and 2025. Related: The future of DeFi is spread across multiple blockchains The study’s baseline assumption is that the market for blockchain identity management will continue to expand as the proliferation of online and cloud services and digitalization more br...

How Does Blockchain Help Combat Disinformation?

How Does Blockchain Help Combat Disinformation? Disinformation — that is, content that deliberately deceives for political or monetary profit — is the same old thing. However, as we've seen throughout the last year specifically, computerized stages have made it altogether simpler to spread perilous paranoid fears, as plainly bogus cases on themes as wide-going as the pandemic, racial fights, California out of control fires, and official political race results have circulated around the web with astounding rate and reach.  Fanning the fire is the rise of deep fakes: exceptionally persuading (yet absolutely fake) sound, photograph, and video content, made by AI, with the possibility to cost organizations a huge number of dollars. Also, that is not in any event, considering the less-quantifiable however no less critical human effect of tech-empowered disinformation on society on the loose.  The uplifting news is, while innovation has prodded the issue, new advances — explicitly, ...