How can you help and stay engaged?

In this final section, we would like to invite you to get engaged in this blockchain journey and its evolution. There are many ways to get engaged, ranging from direct contributions to various open source and Hyperledger projects, to steering your enterprise projects in the right business direction and toward the right application of blockchain technology, with an acumen we hope the topics in this book help strengthen.

As practitioners¸ we have drawn a few observations from our engagements with clients and industry in general. These observations reflect on not only the trajectory of innovation and subsequent adoption, but also on challenges (and opportunities ahead). These observations are summarized in the following lists. While the summaries do not represent exhaustive lists, they certainly capture the essence of the state of blockchain's evolution at the time of writing this book.

Business-related observations are as follows...