Blockchain session @ 2nd Bluemix Meetup

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Bluemix Meetup
Blockchain
Alberto Miyazaki
Client Technical Leader
Banking & Financial Services
alberto@br.ibm.com

Contents
is Blockchain?
is it relevant
for our business?
can IBM help
us apply Blockchain?
2Page© 2016 IBM Corporation

Transferring assets, building value
Two fundamental
types of asset
Intangible assets
subdivide
Cash is also
an asset
– Tangible, e.g. a house
– Intangible, e.g. a mortgage
– Financial, e.g. bond
– Intellectual, e.g. patents
– Digital, e.g. music
– Has property of anonymity
Anything that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value, is an asset

Ledgers are key …
Ledger is THE system of record for a business.
Business will have multiple ledgers for multiple
business networks in which they participate.
– Transaction – an asset transfer onto or
off the ledger
• John gives a car to Anthony (simple)
– Contract – conditions for transaction to occur
• If Anthony pays John money, then car passes
from John to Anthony (simple)
• If car won't start, funds do not pass to John (as
decided by third party arbitrator) (more complex)

Introducing Blockchain
A shared ledger technology allowing any participant in the business network
to see THE system of record (ledger)

Problem …
… Inefficient, expensive, vulnerable
Bank
records
Party C’s
records
Auditor
records
Party B’s
records
Party D’s
records
Party A’s
records

Solution …
… Consensus, provenance, immutability, finality
Party C’s
records
Auditor
records
Party B’s
records
Party D’s
records
Bank
records
Party A’s
records
Shared, replicated, permissioned

– Unregulated, censorship-
resistant shadow currency
– First Blockchain application
• Pioneer of Blockchain
technology
Blockchain underpins Bitcoin …
… Digital currencies different from cryptocurrency
BUT
is not bitcoin

Blockchain for business …
Append-only
distributed system of
record shared across
business network
Business terms
embedded in
transaction database
& executed with
transactions
All parties agree
to network verified
transaction
Ensuring appropriate
visibility; transactions are
secure, authenticated
& verifiable Privacy
Shared
ledger
… Broader participation, lower cost, increased efficiency
Smart
contract
Consensus

Contents
is Blockchain?
is it relevant
for our business?
can IBM help

Blockchain benefits
Saves
time
Removes
cost
Reduces
risk
Increases
trust
Transaction time
from days to near
instantaneous
Overheads and
cost intermediaries
Tampering, fraud
& cyber crime
Through shared
processes and
recordkeeping

Benefits
1. Consolidated, consistent
dataset reduces errors
2. Near-real-time of
reference data
3. Naturally supports code
editing and routing code
transfers between participants
What • Competitors/collaborators in a business network need
to share reference data, e.g. bank routing codes
• Each member maintains their own codes,
and forwards changes to a central authority for
collection and distribution
• An information subset can be owned by organizations
How • Each participant maintains their own codes within a
Blockchain network
• Blockchain creates single view of entire dataset
Consensus use case –
Shared routing codes

Benefits
1. Trust increased, no authority
"owns” provenance
2. Improvement in
system utilization
3. Recalls "specific"
rather than cross fleet
What • Provenance of each component part in complex
system hard to track
• Manufacturer, production date, batch and even
the manufacturing machine program
How • Blockchain holds complete provenance details
of each component part
• Accessible by each manufacturer in the production
process, the aircraft owners, maintainers and
government regulators
Provenance use case –
Vehicle maintenance

Benefits
1. Lowers cost of audit and
regulatory compliance
2. Provides “seek and find”
access to auditors and
regulators
3. Changes nature of
compliance from
passive to active
What • Financial data in a large organization dispersed
throughout many divisions and geographies
• Audit and Compliance needs indelible record of all
key transactions over reporting period
How • Blockchain collects transaction records from diverse
set of financial systems
• Append-only and tamperproof qualities create high
confidence financial audit trail
• Privacy features to ensure authorized user access
Immutability use case –
Financial ledger

Benefits
1. Increase speed of execution
(less than 1 day)
2. Vastly reduced cost
3. Reduced risk,
e.g. currency fluctuations
4. Value added services,
e.g. incremental payment
What • Bank handling letters of credit (LOC) wants to offer
them to a wider range of clients including startups
• Currently constrained by costs & the time to execute
How • Blockchain provides common ledger for letters of credit
• Allows all counter-parties to have the same validated
record of transaction and fulfillment
Finality use case –
Letter of credit
Letter of credit
Republic of A
Buyer’s bank issues
LC and sends to
seller’s bank
A Plus
Bank
Bank B
Seller’s bank authenticates
LC and credits Company B
Sales contract
Company B:
Seller/beneficiary
Company A:
Buyer/
applicant
B-land
Buyer applies
for LC

– Securities
• Post-trade settlement
• Derivative contracts
– Trade Finance
• Bill of Lading
• Cross-currency payment
– Syndicated Loans
– Supply Chain
– Retail Banking
• Cross border remittances
• Mortgage verification & contracts
– Public Records
• Real estate records
• Vehicle registrations
• Citizen Identity
– Digital Property Management
Other potential
use cases

Bluemix – Blockchain Car Lease Demo (video)
http://bit.ly/bmx_carLeaseDemo

Key players for Blockchain adoption
Regulator Industry Group Market Maker
– An organization who enforces
the rules of play
–Regulators are keen to support
Blockchain based innovations
–Concern is systemic risk – new
technology, distributed data,
security
–Often funded by members of a
business network
–Provide technical advice on
industry trends
–Encourages best practice by
making recommendations to
members
–In financial markets, takes buy-
side and sell-side to provide
liquidity
–More generally, the organization
who innovates
- Creates a new good or service,
and business process (likely)
- Creates a new business process
for an existing good or service

Ecosystem

Contents
is Blockchain?
is it relevant
for our business?
can IBM help

Blockchain for Business – Our Point of View
Community + Code
Linux Hyperledger Project
Open Source Code: Blockchain for business;
Consensus | Provenance
Immutability | Finality
Open Governance – 100 member cross industry board
Cloud
IBM Blockchain
Blockchain managed service on IBM Cloud and z Systems;
Identity | Consensus | System Integration |
Hardware-assist for Performance & Security
IBM Blockchain on Bluemix
Clients
Blockchain Solutions
Blockchain Garage
Making Blockchain real for business
Blockchain Garage;
New York | London | Singapore | Tokyo
Blockchain Services Practice

Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project
– Linux Foundation project announced December 17, 2015
with 17 founders, now nearly 100 members
– The Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort to
advance Blockchain technology by identifying and
addressing important features for a cross-industry open
standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the
way business transactions are conducted globally
– Open source and open standards-based
Enable adoption of shared ledger technology at
a pace and depth not achievable by any one
company or industry
QUICK FACTS
Chairman Blythe Masters/DAH
Executive
Director
Brian Behlendorf
Technical Chair Chris Ferris/IBM
Contribution
44,000 lines of code
in February 2016
Sprint to one
codebase with
unified thinking
Staged releases
www.Hyperledger.org

IBM joins Linux Foundation Hyperledger (video)
http://bit.ly/bmx_hyperledger

HSBC, Bank of America, IDA Trade Finance - Letter of Credit
ABN AMRO Financial Restructuring & Recovery
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Consortium Shared Ledger
Japan Exchange Group (JPX) Post Trade
Kouvola Innovation Supply Chain Logistics
London Stock Exchange Market Innovation
Mizuho Digital Currency
IBM Global Finance Shadow Chain for Dispute Resolution
IBM and Hyperledger in Action

Blockchain IBM Global Financing (video)
http://bit.ly/bmx_IBMblockchainGlobalFinancing

Hyperledger Reference Architecture

How to start?
https://developer.ibm.com/courses/all-courses/blockchain-for-developers/
Apply
blockchain to
a business
network
Explore
blockchain and
the Hyperledger
Fabric Project
Build your
first
chaincode

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 Run your own application on any runtime available
 API based
 Enterprise Grade Security
 No need to worry about infrastructure and base ledger network
 Same code as publicly available
 IBM Blockchain also available on DockerHub
 IBM Blockchain on Dedicated Cloud

Blockchain High Security Plan
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Benefits and features include:
Hardware cryptographic accelerators
Tamper-proof cards for key management
Application environment isolation via Secure Service Containers
World’s highest performance Linux-only system

Bluemix - Blockchain Walkthough Demo (video)
http://bit.ly/bmx_blockchainDemo

Summary
Blockchain …
– is a shared, replicated, permissioned
ledger technology
– can open up business networks by
taking out cost, improving efficiencies
and increase accessibility
– addresses an exciting and topical set
of business challenges, which cross
every industry
IBM …
– supports the Linux Foundation
Hyperledger open standard, open
source, open governance Blockchain
– has an easy to access, proven and
incremental engagement model giving
customers the confidence to get
started NOW

© 2016 IBM Corporation
Thank you!
Alberto Miyazaki
Client Technical Leader
Banking & Financial Services
alberto@br.ibm.com

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