Awesome Non-Financial Blockchain

Curated list of projects that build non-financial applications of blockchain.

The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value (by Don Tapscott).

Most applications of blockchain lie in a financial realm. That makes non-financial applications even more intriguing.

Contents

• Identity Applications
• Internet of Things Applications
• Energy Applications
• Talks and books

Identity Applications

Public Blockchain Identity

• uPort - Self-Sovereign identity on Ethereum by ConsenSys.
• Blockstack - Platform for decentralized, server-less apps where users control their data. Identity included.
• Jolocom - Self-sovereing identity wallet.
• Evernym - Self-Sovereign identity built on top of open source permissioned blockchain.
• SIN - Proposed identity protocol for BitCoin.

Blockchain as a collateral

• ShoCard - Proprietary digital identity service, uses blockchain for time-stamping and secure documents exchange.
• Tradle - Makes a bank on blockchain, identity as a collateral.

Unclear

• KYC Chain - Secure platform for sharing verifiable identity claims, data or documents among financial institutions.
• UniquID - Identity both for people and devices.
• ObjectChain Collab - Cross-industry collaboration over distributed identity.
• Vida Identity - Enterprise-grade Blockchain Identity Software.

Guidance

• ID3 - Institute for Data Driven Design, explores issues around self-sovereign identity, and distributed organizations.
• OpenCreds - W3C Credentials Community Group.
• TAO Network Identity - Description of blockchain identity by Tao.Network.

Internet of Things Applications

• Machinomy - Distributed platform for IoT micropayments.
• Project Oaken - IoT blockchain platform.
• Chronicled - IoT devices registry on blockchain.
• IOTA - Decentralized Internet of Things token on blockless blockchain.
• Filament - Software and hardware for decentralized Intranet of Things systems
• Slock.it - Ethereum-based platform for building Shared Things.
• 21 - Micropayments for HTTP API over BitCoin payment channels, and library for IoT applications

Energy Applications

• Electron - Reinventing energy on blockchain.
• GridSingularity - Blockchain for Smart Grid. Declare three years of work on the technology.
• bankymoon - Blockchain consultancy. Presented bitcoin-topped smart electricity meter. Once topped up, it chooses a plan, and starts moving energy.
• lo3 energy - Energy Services, Product Research & Development. Makers of Brooklyn Microgrid along with ConsenSys.
• lumo - Energy provider. Experiment with blockchain.
• Terraledger - Provider of Renewable Energy Certificates.
• Solar Change - Makers of Solar Coin. AltCoin for a MW of solar power.
• PowerPeers - Peer-to-peer energy marketplace in the Netherlands.
• PowerLedger - Decentralised energy marketpace.
• Co-Tricity - Decentralised energy marketplace by Innogy and ConsenSys.

Talks and Books

• EventHorizon - First global summit on blockchain technology in Energy Sector.
• Blockchain Revolution - Probably the best book on blockchain applications.
• How the blockchain is changing money and business - TED Talk from the author of "Blockchain Revolution" book on what is blockchain and its applications.
• Non Financial Uses of Blockchain Technology - Presentation of non-financial uses of blockchain at Fintech Week 2016.
• 19 Industries The Blockchain Will Disrupt - List of industries to be changed by blockchain.

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