Strengths

Weaknesses

· Distributed resilience and control.

· Decentralized network.

· Open source.

· Security and modern cryptography.

· Asset provenance.

· Native asset creation.

· Dynamic and fluid value exchange.

· Lack ledger interoperability.

· Customer unfamiliarity and poor user experience.

· Lack of intraledger and interledger governance.

· Lack of hardened/tested technology.

· Limitation of smart contract code programming model.

· Waller and key management.

· Poor tooling and poor developer user experience.

· Skills scarcity and cost.

· Immature scalability.

· Lack of trust in new technology suppliers.

Opportunities

Threats

· Reduced transaction costs.

· Business process acceleration and efficiency.

· Reduced fraud.

· Reduced systemic risk.

· Monetary democratization.

· New business-model enablement.

· Application rationalization and redundancy.

· Legal jurisdictional barriers.

· Politics and hostile nation-state actors.

· Technology failures.

· Institutional adoption barriers.

· Divergent blockchains.

· Ledger conflicts/competition.

· Poor governance.