the truth is that it's a love story. in italian we say 'chi disprezza, compra' (he who blames, would buy). i professionally entered the 'blockchain for business' space in 2016 when working at ibm, running numerous pocs with the more disparate industries - finance, energy, supply chain, insurance, you name it - almost the totality of which got vaporized in thin air. why? i continued my career as a solutions architect, first in consensys and then chainlink labs (currently), working with the same clients on similar use cases. what changed? i would like to share these answers and lessons learned, retrospecting and looking at what the future has to offer by bridging these two worlds together.