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Blockchains act as a third party that witnesses the age and creation of files. They can tell at a granular level each person who interacted with a file across systems, internally and externally. They can show what is missing from a file, not just the data that is contained in it now. Blockchain files can also be shared in a redacted fashion that does not compromise the validity of documents.

What this means is that you’ll be able to see the age of a file, the complete history of a file, and what it looked like over time as it evolved. More interestingly, you’ll also be able to see if anything is missing from a file. This concept is called proving the negative. Most file systems at this point can only tell you what they have within them. But you’ll be able to tell what a file doesn’t have.

Auditing will be less expensive and more complete. Audit rules could be updated in a more centralized way. When regulatory nodes within a blockchain network have a shared and transparent view into asset transactions, the reporting of these transactions can be done through the regulator’s location, without mandating 100 or more other institutions to adhere to the same rule set.