The year is 2026. Bitcoin is priced at $12,000,000 and Ripple is finally $5. Everything is on the blockchain. Your cat, your favorite show, your morning coffee, and your family doctor are all somehow on the blockchain. Somehow.

Since you were one of the early investors in the blockchain industry, you’re now sitting on a huge pile of moon money. Let’s say that you’re a chef, and you’ve decided to start a company for mass producing donuts at a global scale (because let’s be honest: there is no such thing as enough donuts).

Mmm. Diabetes. Never enough.

First, you need to worry about ordering the raw ingredients from bulk suppliers. These suppliers have all agreed to use a specific blockchain to verify and track shipments, costs, and general logistics. As the manufacturer, you want to be able to track this data for your own records, as well as use smart contracts to ensure security and reduce human error.

Next you need to manage and track the manufacturing and distribution of your donuts from your factories to the stores. Your talented engineers put their heads together and choose a different blockchain ecosystem that tracks your operation costs, your manufacturing throughput, and your warehouse facilities across the world.

Finally, you need to choose a method of payment that you accept from your customers. Since your donuts are so delicious, people literally can’t wait to eat your donuts. So you want a cryptocurrency with fast transactions. Privacy would also be appealing, since you don’t want your consumers to suffer scrutiny from their peers after stuffing half a dozen donuts into their faces in one sitting.

So after supply, manufacturing, distribution, and sales, you have at least 3 different blockchains that you need to keep track of in order to monitor the logistics of your donut empire!

You hire a few more engineers to build a proprietary system that reads data from all these blockchains and presents you with a high-level overview of your donut logistics. You know exactly when the next shipment of sugar will arrive at your processing facility in Europe, how many batches of donuts are ready to be shipped to retailers, how much revenue you’re generating from selling delicious diabetes, and exactly how many sprinkles are on each donut you’re selling. The money is rolling in, and your donut empire is taking over the world.

1,738 sprinkles. Go ahead. Count. I’ll wait.

Your donut empire is so efficient and secure, not a single donut goes to waste without you knowing about it.

So what’s the problem?