You've been through a blockchain initiative before. Maybe you sponsored it. Maybe you inherited it. Either way, you know how it ended: a pilot that worked in controlled conditions and fell apart under real load, a vendor that oversold the vision and underdelivered the infrastructure, an architecture that

AI systems are acquiring more sensitive data access than any previous technology category. Large language models are being trained on health records, financial transactions, and legal documents. Multi-agent systems are exchanging proprietary model outputs across organizational boundaries. AI-powered analytics are aggregating personal and commercial data at scales that weren'