A major blockchain effort is currently underway

For perspective, there are 19 companies in Seattle actively building a blockchain product, solution, or business with a founder or CXO based here. This number does not include blockchain-based VCs, incubators, accelerators, education companies, enterprise cloud service providers, or consulting services. This number also excludes the 20+ companies - enterprise giants whose products we use daily among them - that are actively hiring blockchain engineers and software developers locally.

Now consider this: a major effort is currently underway, quietly yet robustly, among multiple entities, to achieve so many things: to make it easier for blockchain newcomers to find connection points to this ecosystem; to get aspiring blockchain entrepreneurs the funding and resources they need to succeed; to connect business leaders who grok their industry-specific problems with developers and founders who grok new approaches and solutions to those problems. And more.