Despite the challenges that arise amid macroeconomic headwinds, the blockchain industry is becoming increasingly popular among global institutional players.
Analysts conducted a study, according to which 44 out of 100 companies by market capitalization are using blockchain to some extent now.
In the picture, you can see the companies, divided into 6 sectors, that have started by using blockchain over the past year:
Most of the company is in the field of technology: Intel, Oracle, Meta, Apple, Adobe, etc. Second place was shared by the sector with basic materials and industry, as well as retail. You can see there: Visa, PayPal, Mastercard, Nike, Loreal, Amazon. Healthcare interacts the least with blockchain.
According to statistics, the bulk of companies that use blockchain are located in the United States (over 60%), about 12% have offices in China.
In addition to financial institutions and banks, blockchain is beginning to be actively used to manage loyalty programs and create non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
It was previously recorded, that in 2022, 3 times more NFT trademarks from various firms were registered.