In the digital world, as Web 3.0 is finally gaining attention as mainstream, the effective use of blockchain development services is being explored in all genres of the world. It is no exaggeration to say that the expectations and possibilities for blockchain are endless, thanks to its transparency, safety, non-falsifiability, and low cost and speedy transactions.
Therefore, in this article, we will divide the fields where blockchain implementation is expected into three categories: government, society, and environment.
How Blockchain Development Services Solve Government Problems
Blockchain is highly expected as a trump card to solve government problems in countries around the world. Let’s take a closer look at the three areas of “international remittance,” “tax payment,” and “infrastructure.”
International Money Transfer
When making international remittances, most transactions rely on SWIFT, a system established in 1973. However, routing payments through multiple financial institutions usually takes over three days and incurs high transaction fees. Despite these inefficiencies, SWIFT has maintained an absolute presence for over 50 years due to a lack of viable alternatives, as demonstrated when the international community excluded Russia from the network in 2022.
Today, financial institutions and enterprises are turning to blockchain development services to build next-generation alternatives to SWIFT. By utilizing decentralized blockchain technology, cross-border remittances can be completed in just a few seconds without going through traditional intermediaries, significantly reducing costs. This infrastructure also opens up financial access for the 2.5 billion unbanked people worldwide. Furthermore, by leveraging smart contracts, these blockchain solutions can automate and secure a wide range of financial services beyond basic money transfers, offering immeasurable strategic value to the global economy.
Tax Payment
Since international remittances are theoretically possible, it is safe to assume that domestic tax payments using blockchain are not systemically impossible. If you want to transfer money at a bank or ATM, you have to go out of your way to bring money, and depending on the time or day of the week, you may not be able to transfer money, or you may have to pay extra fees.
On the other hand, integrating specialized blockchain development services enables secure, instantaneous tax payments at any time, unconstrained by geography or traditional banking hours. This decentralized architecture is ideal for public finance; it permanently records who paid, when, and how much, ensuring data is completely tamper-proof and transparent. While deploying such a robust system nationwide poses immediate physical and financial integration challenges for governments, the long-term infrastructure benefits remain undeniable.
Infrastructure
Looking at the two examples above, it can be said that the potential of blockchain as a social infrastructure is endless. In addition, for example, in Japan, the payment of benefits related to the new coronavirus has been delayed and has been criticized quite a bit. However, in Estonia, which already manages the personal information of all citizens on blockchain, the payment to the eligible people was completed in just two weeks.
With that in mind, if you use blockchain development services, you can send money safely, reliably, and quickly without going through a financial institution, saving time and effort. It can definitely be reduced significantly.
How Blockchain Development Services Solve Society Problems
Next, let’s introduce the fields where blockchain development services are expected to be used as a solution to social issues, including the private sector.
Food Traceability
The adoption of blockchain for food traceability is expanding rapidly, particularly across Europe and the United States. By leveraging professional blockchain development services, enterprises can track every stage of the supply chain from raw material sourcing and factory processing to distribution, packaging, warehousing, wholesaling, and final retailing. Leading initiatives such as IBM Food Trust have further demonstrated how blockchain technology can improve transparency and operational efficiency across the global food ecosystem
Because this architecture operates without a central authority, where all nodes manage and share identical data, food safety is fundamentally guaranteed. In the event of contamination, food poisoning, or theft, stakeholders can investigate the root cause quickly and reliably. Ultimately, implementing these blockchain solutions serves as a powerful deterrent against fraud, tampering, and supply chain disruptions.
Logistics Problems
Logistics is one of the industries where blockchain development services are highly expected to be used. As with food, if you can track your package, you can flexibly respond to any risks in the supply chain.
A frequent problem in international trade and cross-border EC is the falsification and unauthorized rewriting of information on packages. The process of manufacturing a single product overseas, packaging it, and delivering it to consumers in Japan via warehouses, airports, and seaports is not a simple process. It can be said that the process of entering the country through not only manufacturers and wholesalers, but also multiple carriers, warehouse operators, and forwarders, including administrative procedures, is extremely complicated. On the flip side, it can become a hotbed for fraudulent acts such as impersonation and rewriting because there is no one to consistently monitor all the details.
Therefore, by leveraging professional blockchain development services, it will be possible to track end-to-end from the country of origin, production factory, production date, production manager, delivery company, and airports and ports through which it was routed, and share it with all parties concerned. The inspection process for package contents and information can then be greatly streamlined.
In order to increase corporate value and product value and gain high trust from customers and stakeholders, some of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms and manufacturers have already teamed up with logistics companies to make extensive use of blockchain. Many are starting to do so.
Education
Efforts to manage personal records at educational institutions, such as graduation certificates, course histories, research histories, and awards, have already begun overseas. This will reduce the falsification of educational backgrounds and can be used by companies and other organizations as reliable proof when recruiting students.
If papers and works are also digitally managed using tokens, it is possible to reduce the risk of being illegally misused or plagiarized.
Vaccine
A vaccine passport has become a global focus in the new coronavirus epidemic. This can also be issued using the blockchain. Medical institutions and local governments, airports, public facilities, event venues, etc., can cooperate with each other and make it into an app format that can be used on smartphones so that you can prove negative at the place you visit.
By using blockchain development services providing encryption technology, it is possible to prevent third parties from viewing information other than the minimum necessary personal information, such as details of underlying diseases and allergy information, so it is possible to eliminate the risk of leakage.
How Blockchain Development Services Solve Environmental Problems
The use of blockchain is also progressing in the field of environmental conservation. If blockchains ensure the speed, transparency, and safety of transactions, they will be of great help in building a sustainable society. Let’s take a look at a range of examples, including optimizing energy use, recycling, and combating deforestation.
Energy
It has been a long time since individuals and companies, not just electric utilities, have been able to buy and sell surplus power generated by solar energy. The traditional mechanism relies on the electric power company acting as a central administrator, which purchases power from the seller and redistributes it to the consumer.
However, in this case, transactions can only be conducted under the strict control of these power companies, making it difficult to achieve liberalization in the true sense of the word. Therefore, by adopting professional blockchain development services, all computers of the seller and the buyer can be connected directly via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. This allows for direct trading, where all transaction data remains securely on the block and can be viewed from each computer, ensuring maximum safety and transparency.
In conventional blockchains, there was a process where block generators were determined by mining speed, which required advanced calculations using high-performance computers. However, joint research by Mitsubishi Electric in Japan and the Tokyo Institute of Technology has now developed a decentralized algorithm that can optimize surplus power trading with a minimal number of calculations. As a result, it is now possible to search for the optimum combination and conclude a transaction, taking into account the specific demand and available supply for each participant. Moreover, by suppressing heavy mining, we can expect a significant reduction in electricity consumption and a positive decarbonization effect.
If this system is fully implemented, electricity can be bought and sold freely between individuals and companies regardless of time and place. This will stabilize energy prices, which is highly expected to contribute to the global spread of renewable energy.
Recycling
In the recycling of plastics and PET bottles, the process of collecting used resources, washing, sorting, pulverizing, reprocessing, and manufacturing is extremely complicated. Because of this complexity, it is not easy to accurately grasp how efficiently collected resources are being utilized throughout the lifecycle.
Therefore, establishing the traceability of recycled resources is an effective way to reduce environmental impact and pursue maximum sustainability. Moreover, by integrating specialized blockchain development services, data across every single stage can be securely and transparently managed. This immutable record is highly valuable not only for understanding the current operational status but also for developing advanced recycling methods that further improve long-term sustainability.
Agriculture Problems
There are many opportunities for agricultural products to be exported not only domestically but also overseas. Before it reaches the consumer, it goes through trading companies, brokers, airports, logistics companies, wholesalers, and retailers. Perishable foods are easily damaged, and their storage conditions are greatly affected by the transportation environment, such as temperature and humidity. On the other hand, even if the product value declines, it was a big issue that it was not possible to clarify where responsibility lies.
If blockchain traceability becomes possible, it will help build a safer, more secure, and more accurate supply chain.
Illegal Deforestation
Illegal deforestation is becoming a serious problem in many regions, both domestically and internationally. Once harvested, the source of the timber becomes unknown, so it is not uncommon for timber to enter the market without being noticed as illegal.
Therefore, if the traceability of legally harvested timber becomes possible using blockchain, it can be expected that illegal timber that cannot enter the process will be sorted out and eliminated from the market.
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Summary
The transparency, tamper resistance, speed, robustness, and functionality of blockchain are clear and groundbreaking, offering immense appeal and future potential not found in traditional systems. Moving forward, the focus will be on identifying the exact use cases and applications where this technology can deliver the most value, and how governments, local authorities, enterprises, and individuals can form partnerships to implement the system effectively.
Currently, the adoption of blockchain is steadily spreading across various sectors. Numerous demonstration experiments are underway, but if these movements gain more momentum and reach a critical mass, there is a strong chance that blockchain adoption will accelerate rapidly, expanding all at once beyond the boundaries of industries and regions. To prepare for this major shift, businesses are increasingly partnering with professional blockchain development services to seamlessly integrate these future-proof solutions into their existing frameworks.
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Relipa Co., Ltd. is a Vietnam-based software development company established in April 2016. After two years of growth, our Japanese branch – Relipa Japan – was officially founded in July 2018.
We provide services in MVP development, web and mobile application development, and blockchain solutions. With a team of over 100 professional IT engineers and experienced project managers, Relipa has become a reliable partner for many enterprises and has successfully delivered more than 500 projects for startups and businesses worldwide.
