Ripple's The Business of Blockchain program centers on how 2025 is emerging as a catalyst year for blockchain, marking a pivot point as it becomes a serious, revenue-generating infrastructure layer for the financial sector. Through a business lens, these two articles focus on where blockchain is already proving out real-world value to give readers a glimpse of the future of finance and examine how regulation and commercial viability are intersecting at this moment.

As businesses increasingly look to blockchain to solve for trust and efficiency, it explores how successful adoption among financial institutions could soon create a broader economic ripple effect.

Created in partnership with The Trust, The Wall Street Journal | Barrons Group.

Art Direction, Web Design, Illustration
Illustrations in collaboration with Dan Guinta.

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