As we saw in this chapter, in the coming years, it is most likely that blockchain will gain more and more consideration, hopefully gaining in maturity and recognition from governments and business leaders. Promising use cases will continue to emerge, eventually turning more and more into industrialized and user-friendly solutions. We also saw that funding will rise in importance, mostly thanks to new financing methods such as security token offerings (STOs), bringing the tokenization of financial securities to the next level. In contrast, we highlighted the emerging technologies such as quantum computing that could threaten blockchains supported by proof-of-work mechanisms, and other threats such as scalability and speed, which could handicap proper development of the technology.
In the next chapter, we will explain why we sometimes talk about a private, semi-private...