Prof. Lacity recently published her book Blockchain Foundations for the Internet of Value (2020). The book explains blockchain foundations in easy-to understand terms; presents over a dozen enterprise solutions that are in production today across financial services, supply chains, energy, and other industries; and identifies the action principles to move enterprises from aspirations to business and social value delivered. In this book, she also mentioned our Poultry Excellence in China Project with Prof. Yanbin Li as our leader.

“The University of Arkansas is a member of the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), and this book is a welcome contribution to BRI’s mission to herald a new paradigm for the Internet of Value. Lacity’s book highlights the first generation blockchain-based solutions for enterprises and the pioneers leading the way. ”
—Don Tapscott, co-founder, with Alex Tapscott of the Blockchain Research Institute and author of Blockchain Revolution

“It takes on average 17 Years to progress from research, and its translation, into policies and practices. It is, therefore, crucial for blockchain professionals to short-circuit this lag by keeping up-to-date with emergent consensus, in sync with quality literature – like the one compiled here by Mary Lacity.”
—Dr Naseem Naqvi, Chair, Centre for Evidence Based Blockchain; Editor in Chief, The Journal of the British Blockchain Association

“If blockchain is the ‘internet of value,’ and with peer-to-peer technology and smart contracts some of its killer apps, one of the key lingering questions is, ‘What value will you provide?’ Mary’s book expertly makes the case that, where authenticity matters, the internet of value will be transformative to the world as we know it.”
—Dale Chrystie, Blockchain Strategist at FedEx

Mary Lacity is Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas. She was previously Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Mary has held visiting positions at MIT, the London School of Economics, Washington University, and Oxford University.

The book is now available for pre-order by the publisher, Epic Books and the University of Arkansas Press and on Amazon.