Blockchain is one of the most intriguing technology breakthroughs right now. It is widely recognized as the technology that underpins Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It’s a distributed, encrypted database model that has the potential to address a number of challenges related to internet trust and security.

In 2022, businesses are estimated to spend $11.7 billion on blockchain technologies. Here are some of the driving trends and some forecasts for how this will affect an increasing number of individuals in the coming year.

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Efforts to develop a green blockchain

Because blockchains have the potential to consume a lot of energy and generate a lot of CO2, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has decided to discontinue accepting Bitcoin as payment for his automobiles in 2021. In 2022, attempts to “green” blockchain are likely to attract a lot of attention for this very valid reason. Many individuals argue that carbon offsetting is just bandaging a wound that shouldn’t have been caused in the first place. Another approach is to employ less energy-intensive blockchain models, such as those that generate consensus via “proof-of-stake” rather than “proof-of-work” methods. In 2022, Ethereum, the second most well-known blockchain behind Bitcoin, plans to transition to a point-of-sale (POS) system. Cathy Wood, the CEO of the tech-focused hedge fund Ark Invest, has advocated for a different path to a more environmentally friendly operating model. This predicts that rising energy demand will lead to more investment in renewable energy generation, which will subsequently be used for other reasons, such as blockchain operation.

NFT’s reach is spreading beyond the domain of online art.

Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) were the trendiest topic in the blockchain industry in the year 2021. The First 5000 Days by Beeple fetched astronomical prices, effectively establishing the concept of unique digital tokens held on blockchains in the public imagination. However, the technology, like blockchain in general, has more promise than its initial attention-getting applications. Distillers William Grant and Son recently sold NFTs with bottles of 46-year-old Glenfiddich whisky in order to authenticate each bottle’s provenance. Axie Infinity, a monster-breeding game with around 300,000 concurrent players that allows users to “mint” their own NFT creatures to send into war, is one example (Fortnite, for comparison, has around 3.5 million). NFTs have been designed by Dolce & Gabbana and Nike for their clothing and footwear. And the metaverse concept, which has been championed by Facebook, Microsoft, and Nvidia this year, opens up a flood of new NFT application scenarios.

More countries are adopting Bitcoin and national cryptocurrencies.

In 2021, El Salvador became one of the first countries to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender, allowing it to be used to pay for goods and services throughout the country and by businesses to pay their employees. According to several observers, a number of additional countries will have followed suit by 2022.

In 2022, national cryptocurrencies will grow in popularity as central banks establish their own currency that they can control rather than embracing existing decentralized ones. These projects typically involve digital currencies that coexist with existing traditional assets. It allows users to conduct their own transactions and manage their custody without relying on third-party service providers.

IoT and blockchain integration

Blockchain is an excellent fit for the Internet of Things because it is suitable for keeping track of device interactions and transactions (IoT). Blockchain ledgers and databases have the potential to help solve a variety of security and scalability challenges because of their automated, encrypted, and immutable nature. It will allow cryptocurrency to be used to make micropayments between machines or networks. It is an advanced use case that may require us to travel a little further down the road before having an influence on our daily lives. We may expect to hear about more pilot projects and early use cases in 2022. The current deployment of 5G networks is expected to spur innovation in this area, meaning more connectivity across all types of smart, networked devices and appliances.

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The application of blockchain technology to vaccination manufacture and tracking

Combating the global Covid-19 epidemic will clearly be a big worry through 2022, and it will be a significant use case for several of this year’s top tech innovations. Blockchain technology has several important potential uses in the tracking and delivery of vaccines. Blockchain allows the validity of vaccine shipments to be validated and their distribution to be traced to ensure they reach their intended destinations in a world where counterfeiters are known to make and sell fake immunizations. There’s also a responsibility to ensure integrity at every step of the supply chain, such as ensuring that batches of immunizations are stored at the proper temperature, which many of them demand. IBM has created a blockchain-based system that unifies the recording of vaccination rates and efficacy across the numerous tools and platforms used by the various agencies and healthcare authorities involved in vaccine distribution. A trial study also demonstrated how blockchain might cut the time it takes to detect whether a product recall is required from three days to just a few seconds — for example, if a batch appears to be causing an unusually high number of ill effects. Breakthroughs stemming from the exceptional response to the pandemic are likely to offer up new use cases for blockchain technology in vaccine manufacturing, distribution, and management in 2022.