2 posts tagged with "ROI"

Your board doesn't care about consensus algorithms. They don't care about Merkle trees or Ed25519 signatures or whether your platform uses Raft or PBFT. They care about three things: what problem this solves, what it costs, and when they'll see results.

Here's the exact pitch that gets a yes — structure, slides, objection handling, and the numbers that make CFOs nod.

The blockchain industry has a credibility problem: too many whitepapers, too few deployed systems. Every conference pitch promises "revolutionary transparency" and "trustless coordination." Then you ask "what's the ROI?" and the presenter suddenly needs to take a call.

I've spent 5+ years working with teams deploying blockchain in production. Here are the 7 use cases where the math actually works — with numbers, timelines, and the specific problem each solves.