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The East African region is increasingly proving itself as a real field of application for new technologies including cryptocurrency and blockchain, showing its wide range of implementation and potential. These include the application of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the agrifood sector, particularly in the six countries of the East African Community (EAC) which includes Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.

The breadth and complexity of the coffee supply chain globally makes traceability a pretty difficult principle to guarantee. The path of the beans is long and articulated: once they grow up they first reach the cooperatives, then move on to the export, shipping and import companies, face the roasting process, and then be managed by distributors and retailers, before reaching the end consumer.

According to the significant technological change that has occurred in the past decade, we can now be sure that the integration of innovative tools including blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), and general data protection regulation (GDPR) standards are somehow sufficient and able to ensure the security and privacy of personal data in future Internet systems.

Current market events are strongly indicating that the ethereum network will see massive growth this year. According to a recent report, the active number of users on the ethereum network doubled in period of just five months. Speculators claim that cryptocurrency could gain mainstream usage this year.

The blockchain is not just Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency is in fact only one of its possible applications.

The ban by Apple and Google of decentralized applications (DApps) is getting serious.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended the Wilshire Phoenix’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal. As per the official document issued by the SEC, they have decided to go forward with setting the proposal under further review. By Feb 26, next year, the commission will make a final decision on whether to allow or not to allow BTC ETF and also ascertain their status.

Let us take a look at the future and formulate hypotheses on the new trends that will characterize the technological scene in 2020 and beyond. We will try to do this by focusing on the predictable areas of application in the Digital Trust sector, i.e. services and solutions that guarantee the security, confidentiality and legal certainty of cryptocurrency transactions, such as blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT).

With what is currently happening in the minds of the public, coinidol.com, the world news outlet, decided to conduct an overall assessment of the level of adoption of Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the field of public administration (PA) in Italy, on the most interesting application areas and important cases of use.