According to the Gartner Hype Cycle, blockchain isn’t going through its best moment.
If Gartner is right, most blockchain technologies are still between five to 10 years away from having any meaningful impact.What is the Gartner Hype Cycle?Enterprise research firm Gartner is well-known for its informative reports and predictions across industries and business verticals.
The company developed the Gartner Hype Cycle in a bid to analyse new technologies and try to distinguish marketing and “hype” from actual use cases and progress.Gartner hype cycleWhen it comes to blockchain technology, as far as the company is concerned, there’s still a long way to go.
In fact, if you check out the cycle above, you’ll see how blockchain was thrust into the public domain and then incessantly hyped by the media using words like ‘immutable’, ‘decentralised’, and ‘secure’.The whole ICO phase took on a life of its own.
In fact, it is sliding into the “trough of disillusionment”.Many blockchain projects are failing to deliverOf course, the multiple scams and mismanaged projects that came out of the ICO craze would eventually lead the regulators to quash it.
However, as we head towards the end of another full year, some of the larger projects and companies are starting to struggle.Clearly, interest in blockchain is waning as many experiments and ideas have failed to come to fruition.