Many food companies and retailers are now experimenting more with blockchain technology, according to Fortunly.
Walmart has been partnering with many companies such as Nestle, Dole, and Tyson foods to implement this blockchain technology. It was mentioned in another post of mine that Walmart was able to use blockchain to trace the origin of its produce in a matter of seconds. Whereas it would take days or weeks to track the produce manually.
Another company, Carrefour believes that blockchain will help raise $5 billion in organic food sales by this year.
According to Buybitcoinworldwide, there are about 80 million blockchain wallet users as of December 2021.
Over the course of 7 years, this number has risen by about 77 million users.
Here are the number of Blockchain wallet users worldwide from 2015-2021.
- March 2015: 3.16 million
- July 2016: 8.02 million
- July 2017: 15.2 million
- July 2018: 26.82 million
- July 2019: 40.91 million
- July 2020: 52.03 million
- January 2021: 66.22 million
- February 2021: 68.42 million
- December 2021: 80.02 million
There are some social media networks that run on blockchain technology.
Some of these social media networks are:
- Peepeth
- Sapien
- Diaspora
- Minds
- All. me
- Earn
- SocialX
- Steemit
All of these networks aim for privacy and freedom of expression on their platform as well as privacy.
Many social platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. have been accused of leveraging user personal data for marketing or financial gain. These blockchain-based companies wanted to use blockchain for the purpose of giving the users their privacy through blockchain encryption.
HTC has released a blockchain-based smartphone called "Exodus."
The CEO of the Exodus smartphone created this phone on a mission to keep user privacy more secure. In this phone, he has made secure enclaves and private keys for blockchain transactions.
One unique feature of this phone is that it has a built-in hardware wallet. This wallet stores one's cryptocurrency keys. These keys hold the users' private encrypted information.
