AI and blockchain technologies are no longer buzzwords given that you have arrived at the end of this book. Billions of dollars' worth of assets are managed by innovative financial instruments on public blockchain networks such as Ethereum. AI is used in predictive healthcare, cancer research, and contact-tracing COVID-19 infections. Both technologies are serving humans in an indirect manner. As explained in Chapter 5, Empowering Blockchain using AI, the combined application of AI and blockchain is helping to solve a number of critical use cases today.
Now that you are equipped with the basic concepts and hands-on skills of both technologies, let's go through some ideas on converging AI and blockchain to address a number of real-world problems.