HIVE ECOSYSTEM

At HIVE, we believe that distributed ledger technologies and more specifically blockchain has the potential to reshape our societies, economies and social interactions by commoditizing trust and empowering individuals. Just as Social, Cloud, and Mobile sparked the wave of innovation in the last ten years, blockchain will most likely be a key pillar of the next internet paradigm, together with other technologies. While this journey is slowly emerging before us, we think that stimulating the Belg... ian entrepreneurship around blockchain-related businesses will be key to create the necessary pre-conditions for adoption and growth. To match our vision, we created a cooperative structure (SCRL/CVBA) where the successes of the projects are shared with the contributors and where anyone can market its skills or experience to further benefit the whole group. We believe these features are key to facilitate the emergence and adoption of blockchain-related projects in Belgium. To execute this mission, we aim at: Connecting all relevant actors in the Belgian scene, by organizing large events, workshops, seminars or hackathons to satisfy the needs of both the general public and industry experts; Supporting our members and partners to reach their ambition, by finding synergies and providing a place for our members and partners to share their services with each other. We believe this approach can help in addressing the main barriers to blockchain’s wider implementation, namely: (1) enabling collaboration and overcoming competition, (2) shaping a positive regulatory framework, (3) and identify business cases that justify transition costs.More