In a climate of wicked problems, Blockchain is one silver lining not to ignore.

In 2025, wicked problems are multiplying, but so are the tools to solve them.

Article update: 13 October 2025. In 2025,

Change rarely feels elegant in real time.

At first, it’s confusing (sometimes painful). In the middle, messy.

But at the end, when the dust settles, it has often transformed everything.

That’s where we stand with blockchain.

Seeing Through the ‘Wild West’

When most people look at the crypto world today, they see a confusing and chaotic picture:

“sh*tcoins,” rug pulls, celebrity-backed Ponzi scams, outrageous market manipulation in plain sight. It’s not a pretty picture, and frankly, we will see how this all develops going forward, given the statute of limitations, a 5-year window during which fraud can still be held accountable.

Last Friday alone, on the cryptocurrency market, we witnessed the worst crash to date, with $19 billion wiped out in minutes. Some traders, even taking the minimum risk, lost everything. And we’re talking portfolios worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it wasn’t dumb luck. Someone quietly dumped what looked like fake dollars on one exchange (but they weren’t), made their books look broken, then shorted Bitcoin just before Trump’s tariff bomb. Walked off with $200 million.

It’s easy to dismiss the whole thing as a gambler’s playground — an outlaw western of speculation and vice. Rug pulls are literally daylight robbery, by the way, and not a sheriff in sight….even the tumbleweeds are suspect.

However, leaders know that innovation often begins in the wilderness.

The American frontier was lawless, too, until the institutions came. Railways, courts, banks, schools.

From disorder and chaos, slowly structure emerges. Brick by brick. Law by law.

Look closer, and you’ll see the same pattern forming here.

Behind the headlines, governments, regulators, and corporations are quietly acknowledging what’s real:

Blockchain isn’t just a market. It’s a mechanism, a way to rebuild trust where systems have failed.

Why It Matters for Leaders

As a leader, your job isn’t just to react to change, it’s to understand it and translate it for your entourage.

To help teams, clients, and boards understand what’s coming next.

And blockchain is one of those signals of the future. Not because of hype but because of what it solves.

Let’s look at four problems leaders of all size/scale face right now and see how blockchain could be an important silver lining:

1. Disconnected Teams and Silent Silos

Modern organizations often run like fragmented archipelagos.

Employees feel unheard. Leaders lack ground-level visibility.

Decisions flow top-down; engagement stays flat.

With blockchain-based governance tokens, teams could vote on specific operational issues —

budget priorities, project ideas, process improvements —

all transparently recorded, all tied to real incentives.

It’s not decentralization for its own sake — it’s participation with proof.

2. Sustainability Without Proof

ESG promises are easy. Evidence isn’t.

Consumers want fair trade and ethical sourcing. Investors want measurable impact.

Yet supply chains remain opaque.

Blockchain can track every link in the chain, from raw material to finished product,

verifiable, tamper-proof, and public. Imagine a world where “ethical” isn’t marketing, it’s mathematics.

3. Inflation’s Silent Tax

Leaders watch cash reserves lose value year after year.

Traditional treasury tools can’t keep pace with rising costs.

Blockchain-enabled digital assets,  like regulated stablecoins or tokenized bonds,

offer new ways to protect purchasing power while maintaining liquidity.

Forward-thinking CFOs aren’t speculating — they’re hedging with precision.

4. SME’s who are debanked

In many developing regions, small and medium enterprises are shut out of the banking system. No access to credit. No capital to grow. Invisible to investors.

Blockchain and decentralized finance offer a way forward: direct lending, collateralized micro-loans, and smart contract-driven investment.

No permission needed. Just a network.

From Chaos to Clarity

The story of blockchain isn’t about currency.

It’s about trust, transparency, and transformation

values every leader needs to champion.

Yes, it’s messy and unpalatable now. But so was every breakthrough.

Electricity. The internet. Even democracy.

Each began as a noisy frontier, until leaders saw the signal in the noise.

Wicked problems are by nature extremely difficult to solve. That’s why they are called wicked problems. In the hundreds of conversations I’ve had at Vivatech over the years, it is clear that technology is at the forefront of solving these problems. Little by little, making all of us edge towards a future that might not always be better, but one where we can let go of the things that held us back.

Leaders who can communicate complex innovations with clarity and credibility will shape the next decade.

Blockchain may not be the whole answer, but it’s a silver lining worth watching.