Enterprise use cases on Ethereum Mainnet

Ethereum can help many kinds of businesses, including large companies:

• Increase trust and reduce the cost of coordination between business parties
• Improve business network accountability and operational efficiency
• Build new business models and value creation opportunities
• Competitively future-proof their organization

Enterprise applications built on Ethereum

Here are some of the enterprise applications that have been built on top of the public Ethereum Mainnet and L2s by and for traditional, non-blockchain based companies.

Payments

• Brave Browseropens in a new tab - pays users for their attention to advertisements and users can pay publishers to support them, via the Basic Attention Token
• EthereumAdsopens in a new tab - lets web site operators sell advertising space and get paid via Ethereum
• hCaptchaopens in a new tab - Bot prevention CAPTCHA system which pays web site operators for the work done by users to label data for machine learning. Now deployed by Cloudflare
• Opera MiniPayopens in a new tab - makes mobile payments more accessible and secure for people in Africa with a non-custodial wallet and leverages phone numbers for easy transactions
• Roxpayopens in a new tab - automates pay-per-use asset invoicing and payments
• SAP Digital Currency Hubopens in a new tab - cross border payments with stablecoins
• Tokuopens in a new tab - payroll, token grant administration, tax compliance, local employment, benefits & distributed HR solutions
• Xerofopens in a new tab - facilitates fast and inexpensive international (cross-border) B2B payments

Finance

• ABN AMROopens in a new tab - with Tokeny, tokenized green bonds
• Anvilopens in a new tab - a system of Ethereum-based smart contracts that manages collateral and issues fully secured credit
• Mata Capitalopens in a new tab - real estate investment tokenization
• Obligateopens in a new tab - regulated and KYC'd onchain bonds and commercial paper
• Siemensopens in a new tab - bond issuance
• Silaopens in a new tab - banking and ACH payments infrastructure-as-a-service, using a stablecoin
• Societe Generale FORGEopens in a new tab - bond issuance
• Taurusopens in a new tab - issues tokenized securities
• Visa Tokenized Asset Plaformopens in a new tab - provides the tools and infrastructure for banks to tokenize fiat currencies on blockchain networks

Asset tokenization

• AgroTokenopens in a new tab - tokenizing and trading agricultural commodities
• Bitbondopens in a new tab - improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with tokenization
• Blocksquareopens in a new tab - tokenization infrastructure for real estate
• Centrifugeopens in a new tab - tokenized receivables financing, debt, and assets
• Clearmaticsopens in a new tab - builds decentralised network platforms for the p2p exchange of tokenised value
• dClimateopens in a new tab - decentralized climate information ecosystem
• Fabricaopens in a new tab - a platform for digitizing real estate assets, enabling DeFi borrowing and property trading
• Propyopens in a new tab - a platform to automate residential real estate transactions with smart contracts
• RealTopens in a new tab - investors around the globe can buy into the US real estate market through fully-compliant, fractional, tokenized ownership
• Rubeyopens in a new tab - a platform that tokenizes high-end art to make it accessible to retail investors
• Swarmopens in a new tab - a platform focused on the digitization and trading of real-world assets in a regulatory compliant manner
• Thalloopens in a new tab - a platform to integrate digital carbon credits into business transactions
• Tokenchampionsopens in a new tab - tokenizes European football players' image rights

Notarization of data

• ANSAopens in a new tab - Italian news agency fights fake news and enables readers to verify the origin of news stories by recording them on Mainnet
• Breitlingopens in a new tab - records provenance and repair history of watches on Ethereum
• BRØKopens in a new tab - a cap tables platform for unlisted companies on the public, provided by The Norwegian Government
• Certifactionopens in a new tab - legally valid eSignatures with by privacy-by-design
• EthSignopens in a new tab - records signed electronic documents on the Ethereum blockchain
• Stackticalopens in a new tab - enables the software development, digital issuance and digital signature of Service Level Agreements (SLA) with native escrowing capabilities
• Verizon Full Transparencyopens in a new tab - logs press releases to ensure corporate accountability and trust
• Verifyopens in a new tab - by Fox Corporation stores hashes of media content on a Layer 2 to facilitate content licensing and combating deepfakes
• WolfTownopens in a new tab - by MEF and Sage Management automates Service Level Agreement reporting between telecom carriers

Supply chain

• CargoXopens in a new tab - electronic bill of lading and document transfer provider for shipping
• Circularizeopens in a new tab - an end-to-end traceability solution for raw materials made into products
• EY OpsChain Contract Manageropens in a new tab - enables companies to engage in a procurement workflow by issuing RFQ’s, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices across a network of business partners
• Global Battery Passport projectopens in a new tab uses DIDs anchored on Ethereum through MOBI's Integrated Trust Network to track EV batteries, for compliance with EU regulations
• Minespideropens in a new tab - supply chain tracking and provenance, and CO2 emissions tracking
• Morpheus.networkopens in a new tab - supply chain automation platform
• StaTwigopens in a new tab - supply chain operations
• TradeTrustopens in a new tab - verifies electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs) for international shipping
• Tradeverifydopens in a new tab - data exchange platform for global trade; supports Transactions with Decentralized Identity on Ethereum

Insurance

• Arbolopens in a new tab - parmetric insurance to cover weather related risks
• Etheriscopens in a new tab - decentralized insurance for a variety of risks
• Naymsopens in a new tab - a digital space for the creation of insurance programs, the raising and trading of capital, the writing of risk, and the payment rails for premium and claim transactions, built with AON

Identity, credentials and certifications

• BCdiplomaopens in a new tab - digitizes and verifies diplomas, certificates, and micro-credentials
• Bhutan National Digital Identityopens in a new tab - _a foundation for Bhutan’s digital economy, facilitating trusted interactions between individuals and organizations
• Hyland Credentialsopens in a new tab - digital diplomas and other education credentials, licenses, and certificates
• Palau Digital Residency Programopens in a new tab - offers global citizens the ability to have a legal Palau government-issued ID
• QuarkIDopens in a new tab is a self-soverign identity protocol for managing essential personal documents such as birth and marriage certificates, academic credentials, and proof of income, developed by the government of Buenos Aires for use in Argentia and other South American countries
• Spherityopens in a new tab - offers digital identity management solutions to establish digital trust in ecosystems, focusing on decentralized identities and verifiable credentials
• Zug Digital IDopens in a new tab - is a blockchain-based identity system in Switzerland, offering residents digital access to government services and supporting functionalities like e-bike borrowing and municipal voting

Entertainment, NFTs, and Loyalty

• The British Museum's Sandboxopens in a new tab - an NFT collection
• Fruitlabopens in a new tab - a platform for gamers to earn from watching, sharing and playing online games
• Lamborghiniopens in a new tab - creates in-game assets for Animoca’s Web3 racing game Motorverse
• Nike Swooshopens in a new tab - an NFT platform
• Sothbebys Metaverseopens in a new tab - a digital art NFT marketplace by Sothebys
• Soneiumopens in a new tab - _a Layer 2 by Sony to support Web3 games and NFTs

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Enterprise developer resources

Scalability solutions

Most new blockchain applications are being built on Layer 2 chains. Layer 2 is a set of technologies or systems that run on top of Ethereum (Layer 1), inherit security properties from Layer 1, and provide greater transaction processing capacity (throughput), lower transaction fees (operating cost), and faster transaction confirmations than Layer 1. Layer 2 scaling solutions are secured by Layer 1, but they enable blockchain applications to handle many more users or actions or data than Layer 1 could accommodate. Many of them leverage recent advances in cryptography and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to maximize performance and security, and some offer an additional level of privacy.

L2 Beatopens in a new tab maintains an up to date list of Layer 2 networks and key metrics.

Products, services, and tools

• 4EVERLANDopens in a new tab - provides APIs, RPC services and tools for hosting decentralized applications and enabling decentralized storage on Ethereum
• Alchemyopens in a new tab - provides API services and tools for building and monitoring applications on Ethereum
• Baseline Projectopens in a new tab - a set of tools and libraries that helps enterprises coordinate complex, multi-party business processes and workflows with privacy while keeping data in respective systems of record. The standard enables two or more state machines to achieve and maintain data consistency and workflow continuity by using a network as a common frame of reference.
• Blastopens in a new tab - an API platform that provides RPC/WSS APIs for Ethereum Archive Mainnet and Testnets.
• Blockappsopens in a new tab - implementation of the Enterprise Ethereum protocol, tooling and APIs that form the STRATO platform
• Chainlensopens in a new tab - SaaS and on-prem blockchain data and analytics platform from Web3 Labs
• Chainstackopens in a new tab - mainnet and testnet Ethereum infrastructure hosted in public & isolated customer clouds
• ConsenSysopens in a new tab - provides a range of products and tools for building on Ethereum, as well as consulting and custom development services
• Crossmintopens in a new tab Enterprise-grade web3 development platform to deploy smart contracts, enable credit-card and cross chain payments, and use APIs to create, distribute, sell, store, and edit NFTs.
• Envision Blockchainopens in a new tab - provides enterprise focused consulting and development services specializing in Ethereum Mainnet
• EY OpsChainopens in a new tab - provides a procurement workflow by issuing RFQ’s, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices across your network of trusted business partners
• Hyperledger Besuopens in a new tab - an enterprise focused open-source Ethereum client developed under the Apache 2.0 license and written in Java
• Infuraopens in a new tab - scalable API access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks
• Kaleidoopens in a new tab - an enterprise-focused development platform that offers simplified blockchain and digital asset applications
• Moralisopens in a new tab - enterprise grade APIs and Nodes with a SOC2 type 2 certification
• Nightfallopens in a new tab - an application for transferring ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155 applications under Zero Knowledge, using an Optimistic Rollup, from Ernst & Young
• NodeRealopens in a new tab - provides scalable blockchain infrastructure and API services provider for the Web3 ecosystem
• QuickNodeopens in a new tab - provides reliable and fast nodes with high-level APIs like NFT API, Token API, etc., while delivering a unified product suite and enterprise-grade solutions
• Tenderlyopens in a new tab - a Web3 development platform that provides debugging, observability, and infrastructure building blocks for developing, testing, monitoring, and operating smart contracts
• Unibrightopens in a new tab - a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration
• Zeeveopens in a new tab - provides a range of products and tools for building on Ethereum, also infrastructure and APIs for Enterprise Web3 applications.

Resources

Further reading

Non-technical resources for understanding how businesses can benefit from Ethereum

• Why Are Blockchains Useful For Business?opens in a new tab - Discusses the value of blockchains through the lens of predictability
• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance 2023 Business Readiness Reportopens in a new tab - surveys the potential and capabilities of public Ethereum and the broader Ethereum ecosystem for businesses
• Ethereum for Business by Paul Brodyopens in a new tab - is a plain-English guide to the use cases that generate returns from asset management to payments to supply chains

Organizations

Some collaborative efforts to make Ethereum enterprise friendly have been made by different organizations

• Enterprise Ethereum Allianceopens in a new tab - The EEA helps organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations. Its goal is accelerating business Ethereum through professional and commercial support, advocacy and research, standards development and ecosystem trust services.
• Global Blockchain Business Councilopens in a new tab - The GBBC is an industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem. Through engaging policymakers and regulators, curating events and in-depth discussions, and driving research, GBBC is dedicated to further adoption of blockchain to create more secure, equitable, and functional societies.