Today's blockchains provide a partial solution to the problem of siloed data, as they synchronize transactions between participating users. Still, boundaries remain between different blockchain deployments and between blockchains and traditional IT systems.
What is needed to overcome these market and technological hurdles is a new network-of-networks—one that not only grows economic value, but that also enables it to flow freely, securely, and with strict privacy, across interconnected systems. We call this the Global Economic Network.