U.S. Government Unlikely To Adopt A Single Blockchain System, Says Expert

According to Odaily, prominent Chainlink community contributor Zach Rynes expressed on X that it is highly improbable for the U.S. government to adopt a single blockchain system across all its departments and agencies. Rynes questioned whether the ledger requirements of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would align with those of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), suggesting they likely would not. He anticipates that the U.S. government will eventually employ multiple private and public ledgers for various purposes, such as enhancing spending transparency or automating manual processes. Rynes emphasized the necessity for these diverse public and private blockchain ledgers to communicate and share data across agencies through cross-chain interoperability standards. Furthermore, he highlighted the need for agencies to seamlessly connect their existing backend systems and infrastructure to the various public and private chains used by the government through an abstraction layer. Agencies aiming to automate manual processes using blockchain will require access to external data resources to securely trigger smart contract functions using oracles. Rynes concluded that a unified platform is essential to meet all these requirements for off-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and legacy system connections.