Reading the article, it’s clear there is nothing resembling actual blockchain/cryptocurrency technology involved. The engineers have built something with the fe

Reading the article, it’s clear there is nothing resembling actual blockchain/cryptocurrency technology involved. The engineers have built something with the features Cargill thinks their supply chain needs, and the marketers (or the savvy product managers) are just using “blockchain-like” as a descriptor and other crypto-adjacent buzzwords to generate interest and attention. It’s probably the inevitable endpoint of all the years of blockchain hype from people who didn’t understand the system to begin with—-keep using and evolving the buzzwords and apply them to entirely different, old-fashioned, boring tech that actually addresses business needs.