Introduction Web3 brought programmability through smart contracts, composability with decentralized applications, tokenization with digital assets. There are many Web3 use cases implementing dApps for various real-life applications: stablecoins, lending and borrowing, exchanges, oracles, derivatives, insurance, governance & DAOs, real-world assets tokenization. Any asset class will potentially be moved on chain…

We live in an economic world based on the exchange of tangible and untangible assets, fungible or not fungible. Blockchain is the railway where the exchange takes place automatically real-time, peer-to-peer without the absolute need of 3rd parties intermediation, lowering counterparties risks and costs. Services provided by DeFi, once regulated…

INTRODUCTION In recent years a combination of factors and events threw the global monetary system under discussion, forcing central banks worldwide to take action. In the last 50 years, the financial sector didn’t experience substantial infrastructure change. Despite an astonishing growth of transaction volume since the 1950s and the advent…

Decentralized Identity Portability In this article I wanted to shed light on digital identity portability, starting from the current digital identities models and limitations to self-sovereign identity (SSI) value proposition and Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) capabilities, ending up with a holistic view of the future digital identity portability. INDEX 1- Current digital identities models…

Introduction When I’m thinking about the blockchain ecosystem I’m thinking, high level, about Ecosystem Business model, Opensource software, Community, and DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). What does a successful blockchain ecosystem look like? In this article, I speak about value proposition, challenges, best practices, and where possible, metrics, to strategically build…

If the pandemic has proven what is possible to achieve through C-level alignment, focus narrowed to specific activities, quick decision making, and budget allocation; now the hardest left for CIOs, and C-suite, is the strategy. Vendors on the other side, navigate in a subscription-based world, a blue ocean cloud market…

The pandemic has proven what is possible to achieve through C-level alignment, focus on specific activities, quick decision-making, and budget allocation. Now the hard part is to sort out the strategy. — In the last 18 months, the focus has been violently shifted to CIOs. It is fair to say that they have been under lots of pressure lately. Accountable for solving the emergency at the beginning of the pandemic, and then, strategising how IT can self-serve current, and future business models.

In a market where uncertainty and fast paste are by design, knowing what matters to customers and whatnot makes or breaks any business. In this article, I shed light on how to rewire the organization around customers, common challenges, and the framework to drive a customer-centric business transformation. CUSTOMERS-CENTRIC TRANSFORMATION…

Cloud transformations can start bottom-up from the applications or top-down from the infrastructure. The applications are the ones impacting business, changing customer experience, and building digital capabilities. This article sheds light on application modernization, and how cloud transformation journey at architecture, infrastructure, and delivery level, reflects on the business. INTRODUCTION …