published Jun 22nd 2016, 1:14 pm, by Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) —The Obama administration will fight a federal judge’s ruling overturning its effort to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a decision that struck another blow to the president’s environmental legacy. “We’ll continue to make our case in the courts,”

Blockchain technology appeared on the market in 2009 in the form of the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and since then has almost completely developed in the form of various kinds of DeFi solutions. Even though decentralized platforms based on a distributed ledger have existed for twelve years, only recently products based on them have begun to appear in other areas, including trade, data storage, logistics, games, medicine, etc. Our article is devoted to such non-financial blockchain-based applications, how they differ from the usual centralized solutions, and the benefits they can bring to users.