 Yeah, so let's start. So, hi, everyone. So, we, Arun from Wal-Mart Global Tech and HyperJet TSC member, and I'm Kamlesh, CTO Blockchain Editor Tech. And so, in today's session, we are going to talk about the blockchain adoption ecosystem in India. So, we all know, like, how countries and the corporates are responding to the blockchain adoption. So, we just collected some information, the adoption clarity on the, in India, India Geography, and what people are building, what companies are doing, government involvement and startup ecosystem. So, just, so we are part of the HyperLegendia chapter and these are the, our connect details you can connect to on the LinkedIn, Wiki, MyLinglist, and Blockitrade. You can scan the QR code and connect to us. We, we meet every Thursday, 3 p.m. India time. Welcome to all. Okay, so, India Lenders can escape. So, generally, in blockchain adoption, two different spaces. One is a startup space, another government space. So, in a startup, so there is a growing blockchain startups in India, like they are building on the agriculture use cases, waste management, skill credential, identity management, supply chain, trade finance. And we have, I think, more than 200 plus startups working in the blockchain in India. And government space. So, in the government, all the, all the state governments, central governments, NTIO, NISG, and CDEC, NIC, NPCI, even RBI is simply announced their CBDC proposal or kind of discussion to start the CBDC implementation. Ministry of IT and electronic started the center of excellence, excellence, a pie recall, and this is part of that, that center. So, similarly, there are various initiatives by the government space in all the, I think, 20 plus, all the 20 plus Indian states are working on blockchain, whether it is e-governments projects, or maybe some kind of blockchain strategies, like Tamil Nadu e-governments come with the blockchain, on practice about the implementation of different use cases. Recently, the India also come with the national blockchain strategy, like, China, BSN, EBSI, EROV also there on the studies. Similarly, blocks, India also come up with their own blockchain strategy to promote the blockchain adoption in India, whether it is a e-governments project, whether it is a startup, or any kind of digital transformation. So, startup ecosystem. So, just let us report by PWC, the India blockchain market by 2030, would be around 33, around billion dollars. So, you can see the global projection of the blockchain adoption in India, and in word, you can see the India, US, and China. So, India around 20 to 30 billion dollar market, and different use cases of building, and the identity management, credential, provenance and traceability, payments, agreements, and loyalty rewards. So, these are different sectors and their contribution to the in billion dollar values. This is the startup ecosystem report by Avas Gosan. This is one kind of reporting company in India. They will do the market study of the blockchain adoption in India, and this is reported around 2020. And you can see the different blockchain startups in different sectors, like BFSA, there are a couple of startups like VendiEx, Matic, IPRA, and government, many startups like Oxys, maybe Healthcare, Repruitment, Retail, CPG, Technology. So, there are technology startups also like who provide the blockchain services, or technology services, or helping customer to build their blockchain products and services. So, all the segments, India is doing good in terms of the blockchain adoption. Many startups in different segment, like you can see the Istradvik, which is a part of the UNICEF Innovation Fund, and recently implemented the vaccine tracker on the blockchain base for the COVID-19 vaccine too. So, and there are couple of startups incubated in India from USA like Montego, one of the startup which is not found in India, but in India. So, such like 200 plus startup work in the different segments and different technology. In Hyperledger too. So, in Hyperledger, we also have different member companies and startups, which are a member of Hyperledger. In Hyperledger, Hyperleger membership is a global membership of different technology companies, functional companies working in the blockchain space. So, these are the list of the blockchain companies and startups, which are members of Hyperledger. And there are many more. If we miss something, then you can completely, you can see in the Hyperledger members list. Future Tech, KBA, TechMindra, Emergo, Paramount, Cheneyart, MindTree, Weepro. These are the startups and companies working on the, which are a member of the Hyperledger and contributing to the Hyperledger projects and Hyperledger community. Now, I'll hand over to Arun to talk about the government space. Thanks Kamlesh. So, we just saw how broad and how wide is Indian startup ecosystem, right? Adopting. Just imagining there are like 200 companies working on blockchain technology within India is an enormous number. And you could imagine the scale at which India operates, right? So, because of the population or because of the diversity involved. And when we talk about these terms, like blockchain doesn't come as is. Blockchain is not a technology where we cannot, we can leave other social aspects of it. So, why do we require a government involvement here? So, governance in India has unique challenges, as he said, because of the scale at which anything in India operates and because of diversity involved, because of just a sheer amount of complexity in the processes involved. And blockchain is a technology which will offer a unique way of solving governance related issues. So, because of this wide vast coverage of challenges that India faces, India needs a new way of governance. And that's where blockchain can help in. And blockchain also helps in self-regulation and it reduces regulatory burden on some of the businesses. It increases the ease of doing business within India. And NITU actually has released two papers, like they formalized a strategy document and then they released it in two parts, where in which first part they show, I mean they did POC on four different use cases, they released their learnings on those four use cases saying, stating what worked for them, what did not work. And the paper also discusses some of the key elements such as, do we need a law change or is policy or Indian law blocking some of the blockchain adoption? What are those hurdles and how can we work with the technological advancements? And in the second white paper, they are discussing some of the recommendations, right? And what is the next step that India can take and how can India proceed from there? So, this is what you can find in NITU IOX white paper which they had released a couple of years ago. And why is blockchain important for India? Why? Because I mean when in terms of ease of doing business, India has moved definitely by 79 positions from in last five years, from being somewhere in back to India is currently at like 65th position overall in the world. But still there are those 65 positions and when we look at the key terms or key areas where India can further improve on, that is all related to or some somewhat related to the regulatory compliance cost involved in India and some of the corruption practices which are ground-routed which are which is very hard to catch and also some of the things like trust in case of border transactions. So when all these challenges that we have in terms of improving ease of business is all related to trust and wherever there is there are trust issues blockchain is a technology that can improve it. So process efficiency and that is inherent property of blockchain technology and that's where blockchain for Indian government chain is a strategic technology. And in the next slide we will also discuss about India's national blockchain strategy. So if you are very active in the blockchain space recently you might have come across this white paper which was released by Indian government like METI, Ministry of Ministry. So this white paper like why do we need strategy at the national level right? So we need strategy because in government of India saw opportunities then they saw when there is too much opportunity there should be some steps to leverage full potential of these opportunities available. And this is not just targeted for its union government or central government projects but this is also kind of laying grounds for different state governments and enterprises and including cities and so government considers all of these views together and that's when they put up a strategy document. And also this strategy document not only fosters the projects in India but also it enables ecosystem for research and development and also skilling blockchain technology in India. Now let's talk about the POCs which I told about right. So METI actually did four different POCs as I said. One was around track and trace of drugs and then there was like where METI used it for claim verification and then approval for fertilizer subsidies and then the other project which they did was on university certificates to stop in valid credential or in valid certificates being displayed. And the other use case which was done was around land records like transfer of land records. We know all these are like key challenges which in a country like India we face and if you can start adopting blockchain technology and when METI showcased that after doing these POCs blockchain technology is the key for us to solve these kind of problems they reported this. They were major part of coming up with this national strategy document and it's not just these things but if you also look at the way or like India's presence in digital identity space I know like you might all know India has other system right which is giving unique identity to everyone and not just that in like India revolutionized the payment system. India in fact has one of the best-in-class payment system which is through UPI and these different banks or payment service providers they make use of UPI's APIs and they provide all these services. So India has revolutionized the e-payments sector and one more area why blockchain is important for India is because of like PMJ which is like which is providing largest healthcare initiative within the world approximately half a million people if I'm not wrong are getting benefited out of it. So having these many options having a national strategy it will streamline the processes. And now let's talk about Indian state government initiatives right so we at a large level have a strategy document which is being done and then there are startups which are working on different use cases. Now what are different states doing because we know the way India is going like we have some of the topics which are which do come under state government some of the topics which do come under central government. So within state government let's pick up some of the use cases right so Maharashtra government in fact they pilot on healthcare transport agriculture and finance domains and they they also have their own blockchain strategy and they also set up something called as Mahash if I mean pardon me if I'm pronouncing it wrong wrongs they also came up with something like Mahash Shrunkala. So this is this is kind of a test night where they invite developers to come in and then develop their solutions and make use of the platform or the technology space which is available and build solution on top of it. So let's also like discuss about one more state which is Telangana. So Telangana in fact recognized one of its district as blockchain district of India like they in fact named it they call they're calling it as India's first blockchain city. So they're providing subsidies wherever necessary for blockchain companies to establish themselves in that place and then they also formed something called as T block it it takes care of multiple startups working on different domains they take them from validation and then from seed stage they train them they give all the support needed and then after this four months long of acceleration period they they are in now position of like where's there's companies can invest on on those startups so they they help in brainstorming those ideas and it's not just that like if there are multiple solutions I mean which are emerged out of this initiative within because of this Telangana state government project few of them which I can take out as like coin earth and then sparam network helping on supply chain and then in workflow automation then of course like India has its own trace x company which works on food traceability and not just those things even in bank mode which is which is providing black bank related services using blockchain technology there are few more use cases which I'll cover in the next coming slides but having talked about all these blockchain strategies at state level and national level it's also equally important that we educate people on this like it's also equally important that we have right skills using which we can further foster this technology and gain complete benefit of it so that's where the education institutes come into picture so it's not just the job of central government or it's not just a job of let's say some of the it takes sector companies but it should be a collaboration across every every party over here so some of the listed points on the screen you you can imagine so there are universities who are partnering with it takes service providers in providing blockchain as a course offering and then not just that the government itself is providing subsidies and training courses they're helping people upskill themselves and of course like we have come later also on the call they run Indian Blockchain Institute so all these kind of effort is is paving way for next generation of technology builders in India yeah so thank you so education initiatives so even different IIT I am further on blockchain program with the executive blockchain program or movie one year two year blockchain program which you can directly give a job to the candidates and in that there are moment and notice like every university and college are doing some kind of fdp program on blockchain so they want to educate and skill development of their faculties so they can intake the blockchain module and courses in the existing degree courses this is a lot lot of thing happening in the educational fund so there like either I mentioned about the upgrade one of the at-tech startup and they've just become the billion dollar approach billion dollar startup in the training space and they have education education training there so missing about the government initiative state government initiatives we talk about t-hub we talk about Maharashtra strategy we talk about and there are Tamil Nadu governance separate portal to manage and implement the blockchain in the across the Tamil Nadu state and there is a Kerala blockchain strategy similarly different states coming with the different blockchain strategies to adopt the blockchain in the their e-governance process or maybe providing a platform so in the next half of the slide we talk about the some successful implementation in India from the starter from the company then from the government so before that what we are building actually so you can see the list of different use cases like people are building system of supply chains and building food testimony I don't mean some of the tresex and agritanx telecom intent entice from telecom blockchain this is well known and the word known use case implementation by tribe telecom authority of India and tech pendera and there are all the telecom measures are part of this network is a more than 30 30 organization the network in there is a good kind of successful story for the world like how anti-spending managing on the blockchain for the one billion dollar one billion people and then banking and clearing settlement education essential trade finance e-governance and this is an interesting idea where waste management plastic cycle where nobody thinking blockchain could be applied but companies are coming up the use case and applying the to trade the plastic recycle and kind of this kind of sustainable carbon emission tracking circular economy identity manager use case people are integrating the adhar and digilocker with the blockchain based identity management system vaccine certificate so recently the Maharashtra government are implemented the vaccine certificate blockchain based agriculture value chain different agriculture startups agritanx startups are adopting blockchain in their agri value chain food safety solutions KYC ML in general all the banks and tech finance companies are adopting it vaccine distribution talk about that static with the part of the UNICEF innovation fund are implemented the blockchain based platform for the vaccine distribution even before the covid period tracking tracking the different vaccine which are distributed to the remote areas and there because in generally that's the geography area so these are always some challenges to distribute the vaccine across the regions do you know with energy projects so recently like Uttar Pradesh government and Delhi Tata power different state government because India has their reason to be like 2030 2050 they become the net zero country and just try to just want to focus on the renewable energy sources whether it is a solar energy or wind energy and there are lots of use cases in the renewable space like p2p power distribution or kind of carbon emission and carbon tokenization of that renewable energy assets so then we have a couple of detailed use case one is from the very file card certificate for the undocumented skilled labor so this this project done by my company and this is a this is a one of the project where we are taking the certificate for the undocumented skilled labor who are working in the maybe real estate projects or maybe some I suppose this we done for the Pune metro project so but all these skills certificate they don't have any kind of way to prove it what kind of certificate they have so we done for that one and then this has to be a supply chain so this is this is the done by the Aditya Birla group and Birla cellulose so Birla is one of the Aditya Birla group company and they they have their organic fiber they are then creating and manufacturing fiber from the forex and they have two use cases when is the kind of sustainability from forest to fashion because Aditya Birla also their fashion detail division so how any manufacturing from the forest area what kind of practices now are they following the sustainable supply chain process or not and then calculating the CO2 footprint of those all processes because at the end is is matter like the the products you are buying or the the company need to follow their HDG goals so in this project they are using the blockchain enable traceability platform green track and they are implementing two use cases when is from forest to fashion circular suppressing complete end to end supply chain of fiber from forest to till consumer and then calculating the carbon emission and certification out of those processes and this is recently done by the Maharashtra government for the COVID-19 certificate and which is arrive in production and they are using the one of the Indian startup and the metric network polygon network now now what do you talk about the great tech Mahindra I think you are mute I think I don't know you there but I can't hear you I can hear you sorry I put my mute yeah so I I guess in keynote session earlier today you heard from Rajesh on this particular use case where 1 billion subscriber problem is solved so the main goal of this project is to stop spam calls and help people avoid like from unsolicited SMS or messages now why is it important for us to stop these things because spread of miscommunication and spread of misinformation is a major problem especially during some of the political involve involvements right during elections or maybe some of the debates like this this could literally lead to some of the catastrophic things so stopping those kind of things is very critical not just that but because of many other reasons like for example somebody could send a spam message saying that hey buy this particular stock it may increase and then if they are like tele spammers then they can play around with the stock market and then because of these kind of things it's very important for its first government to look at it like that so and nearly like India has 1.8 million unsolicited telemarketers and then like more than 500,000 blacklisted unsolicited commercial communications receive and what is this blockchain problem do blockchain is used over here now help solve this problem by like whoever is the marketer who wants to send those SMS at a large scale or do a telemarketing they need to first register themselves onto this blockchain system and then user preferences are also compared against these telemarketers preferences and only then when when a proof is added onto blockchain these calls or these SMS are forwarded to actual customers if there is no provenance if there is no proof of verification then those messages are unsolicited basically and that's the tri-regulation and that's what telcos are solving and they in fact solved and this has been said as an example across the world now talking about one other use case I guess there was also a question in the Q&A section regarding this which is about Vajra platform right so India already has a state-of-the-art payment system through UPIs now why do we need Vajra platform now imagine that when you do a transaction even though you complete your transaction in the background banks are involved and then they need to have those transactions accepted or each bank they need to have their liquid assets moved from one place to other place so that is where and also there could be issues of disputes there could be issues of like auditing which is required in this whole process so in order to save that time in order to help out in in these things so NPCI actually came up with this Vajra platform which has one node which is it's a blockchain ecosystem of course and it has one like clean clearing house node maintained by the NPCI themselves and they also have participant nodes from multiple banks and payment processing industry like PPI ASP all those companies they're forming their own nodes and then there is also one node with the other for authorization purpose or authentication I mean authentication and authorization purpose so having a blockchain network of all these they also have built APIs which anybody can consume so in fact it is being used like in customers are being impacted but we impacted in a sense we are getting benefit of it but it's all all happening behind the scene for us and that's really a good implementation use case which which could be discussed right at the implemented at at the government level and now let's talk about vaccine ledger I guess Kamlesh briefly spoke about it in his introduction right so UNICEF actually funded a project to start with to come up with a vaccine tracker in fact this was a pre-covid time when this project was started but once this project for vaccination tracking was implemented this has really helped in post-covid as well and with these projects we can know outage reports we can know actionable route optimizations and we can also do real-time demand forecasting on on vaccines so that those were the benefits of vaccine ledger and the other use case from one of the state government is UP started this peer-to-peer trading or solar rooftop like if you have your own solar rooftop and you would like to sell your excess energy to somebody else through smart meter the UP government had this blockchain backed project where they allow you to sell it and then track your energy footprint or energy to a energy resource that you're selling through blockchain so that you can have that provenance track yeah yeah thank you and I think a couple of such initiative by Tata power and uh Billy state so uh we just have two three minutes so like challenges so generally regulation and law and these are two things that are trending in India like we all know like crypto laws where government says something karabia says something so this is trending in but i think crypto laws and all this doesn't matter to the blockchain adoption in the enterprise level so as a enterprise initiative doesn't care what is with the crypto laws but another law is very important that data privacy like unlike the other GDPR compliance by the from the euro the similarly data privacy law bill is pending in the government uh parliament when it will come in the picture then then the data privacy GDPR kind of compliance is very important in the blockchain based solution because currently like you know like when you can't you can't delete and remove the data uh you can't forget the information so then such kind of laws some kind of great challenge but whether the technology now a solution you could implement the like private data collection in the fabric and such kind of even you can do the it's just sort of the leisure some technical i recently i just uh just joined yesterday some of the IBM they have some kind of new uh new thoughts and research where you could implement the fabric is a GDPR compliance but that is in the in progress so this thing in the next next slide where we see in the India so Arun can share more light on this one we just have one minute all right um so what next like what is what is the next step for government of India to proceed from here right so we have seen so many use cases already being adopted so what can what more can we see where can we see India putting more efforts in or accelerating the effort in it of course we are going to see changes in within the CBDC space more often could even come to the level of retail CBDC but we need to wait and watch because just last week there was an important decision made by Supreme Court which kind of allowed like the pro currencies to flow in through the regular banking ecosystem and now there is of course growing ecosystem growing startup ecosystem we may see more of service providers more of blockchain technology solutions providers increasing within within India and then of course because of India blockchain strategy which has space for everyone and anybody we are going to see India blockchain infrastructure being improved a lot or interoperability being looked into it and maybe some of the research projects were also being started up on and yeah we will see national blockchain strategy um in implementation which were so there are a couple of questions so just let me so there's a question about which blockchain framework Vajra using so they are using hyper is a fabric and you see the sensor okay so any more question so I think already session is ended yeah so in this session we try to give brief of what's happening within India ecosystem it's it's there's so many things happening so yeah we are happy to extend this through Hyperledger India chapter invite you to speak in our forums and and spread the word about what you are working on okay yeah so we can depth up thank you thank you all