Why does anybody believe that Blockchain is an important part to this? Blockchain is good at protecting digital assets (for which it was created). For a physical good, this makes little sense. You can prove that the label that you put on the box is the label that is part of the blockchain. But the product itself can still be exchanged without anybody knowing it. The only way to overcome this would be to add a component to the drug created by the blockchain that becomes part of the drug (combines itself with it) - then you could be sure. But I hope you can imagine the FDA approval issues with this approach. In addition to this: Blockchain is just super inefficient for large scale usage. Just look at the power consumption caused by the mining that is required to provide the keys. I hope there can be a smarter way to achieve what needs to be done here.
Why does anybody believe that Blockchain is an important part to this? Blockchain is good at protecting digital assets (for which it was created). For a physical good, this makes little sense. You can prove that the label that you put on the box is the label that is part of the blockchain. But the product itself can still be exchanged without anybody knowing it. The only way to overcome this would be to add a component to the drug created by the blockchain that becomes part of the drug (combines itself with it) - then you could be sure. But I hope you can imagine the FDA approval issues with this approach. In addition to this: Blockchain is just super inefficient for large scale usage. Just look at the power consumption caused by the mining that is required to provide the keys. I hope there can be a smarter way to achieve what needs to be done here.