How private blockchains can improve IoT systems

View profile for Pablo Chamorro

Founder, Entrepreneur and Investor

If your smart system needs to check in with the cloud every time a light turns on or a lock clicks shut, you’re creating a bottleneck. It might work fine with 50 devices. But at scale, the latency, cost, and failure points compound. One approach I’ve seen gaining ground: using private blockchains to reduce that dependency. Not because it’s trendy, but because it’s practical. Private blockchains let devices validate interactions locally, using lightweight consensus mechanisms. That means faster processing, less cloud reliance, and fewer outages caused by server overload. In short: the system can keep working, even if the internet doesn’t. It’s a smart fit for teams trying to move past the limits of traditional cloud-bound architectures. There’s a solid breakdown of how this works (and where the benefits really show up) in this piece: https://lnkd.in/dS6S-ynx

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