As I mentioned earlier, there are consortium blockchains that focus on specific markets. Corda, from R3, is a distributed shared ledger platform specifically designed for recording and processing financial and legal agreements from regulated financial institutions. The platform supports smart contracts, which in this case are agreements whose execution can both be automated through computer code guided by human input and control, and whose rights and obligations, as expressed in legal prose, are legally enforceable. Corda links the business logic and data of smart contracts to the associated legal prose in order to ensure that the financial agreement(s) follow the law and can be enforced.
Corda itself is not a traditional blockchain ...
