Venture research firm CBInsights published “Banking is only the start: 20 big industries where blockchain could be used.” The post provides profiles of companies seeking to gain efficiencies from distributed database technologies in banking, payments, trade finance, car leasing, academic records, and beyond. What’s common to these use cases are the presence of “transactions that (can be) verified and organized by a decentralized platform that requires no central supervision, even as it remains resistant to fraud.”