As blockchain's hype cycle continues to befuddle many about its potential beyond cryptocurrencies, businesses and governments are moving ahead with projects involving everything fromdigital identitiestovoting and supply chain tracking.Blockchain has slipped into the "Trough of Disillusionment" (see Gartner Hype Cycle), because it got ahead of its technical and operational maturity.
As a result, interest has waned as most experiments and implementations failed to provide expected results.