The year of 2017 is widely regarded as the beginning of the blockchain era. Though the concept itself was born in 2008 with the advent of Bitcoin, it was 2017 when the blockchain fever burst out: thousands of companies, from small startups to high-tech giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Rakuten, and Telegram, joined the technology race.
Having gone viral, blockchain
encompasses new spheres and evolves into new forms.
When a year ago it was about developing single products based on decentralization, now blockchain evangelists dare dream of globalization and creation of the entire crypto
universe. Or at least a location such as a city powered by decentralization, transparency, and cryptocurrencies.