Blockchain Getting Closer to its Breakout Each Day.

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Momentum is shifting from a focus on learning and exploring the potential of blockchain to identifying and building practical business applications, according to a Deloitte survey of more than 1,000 blockchain-savvy executives.

Respondents said they see great value in blockchain's potential to reinvent processes across the business value chain--and there is interest and investment in a wide range of use cases.

For example, 74 percent report that their organizations see a "compelling business case" for the use of blockchain--and many of these companies are moving forward with the technology. Nearly half of that number (34...