Other Use Cases

Blockchain and smart contracts extend far beyond DeFi and NFTs. Below are several additional use cases where decentralized technologies are driving innovation and efficiency across traditional industr

🏠 Real Estate

Blockchain technology and smart contracts are increasingly being used in real estate transactions, helping automate and streamline key processes like contract management, escrow, and payments. By reducing intermediaries and enabling trustless execution, this can lower transaction costs, reduce fraud, and accelerate the sale/purchase cycle.

🌐 Notable platforms:

• RealT

• Propellr

• BrickMark

• Meridio

• RealBlocks

• Reental

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🎓 Certifications & Diplomas

Smart contracts are also being used to issue verifiable credentials such as diplomas and professional certifications. These digital certificates are stored on a secure and decentralized ledger, making them tamper-proof, transparent, and easily verifiable by employers, institutions, or governments.

🌐 Notable platforms:

• Learning Machine

• Blockcerts

• MIT Digital Diploma

• Sony Global Education

• OpenCerts

• UPort

• Stampery

• Credly

• Accredible

• Evernym

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🍎 Food Traceability

Blockchain provides a powerful infrastructure for improving food supply chain transparency. Using smart contracts, companies can create immutable records of each stage in the journey of a food product—from farm to table. This not only enhances consumer trust but also helps ensure safety, quality, and compliance throughout the supply chain.

🌐 Notable platforms:

• TE-FOOD

• Ambrosus

• Provenance

• OriginTrail

• Ripe.io

• BlockFood

• FoodLogiQ

• Walmart Food Traceability

• IBM Food Trust

• Bext360