India, Oct. 10 -- Are you in production with your blockchain project? Plenty of organizations are likely answering with a big fat "no" to that question. While blockchain seemed to rule tech headlines for much of 2018 and even 2019, the technology didn't quite deliver for many organizations beyond maybe the finance vertical.

Now, a new 2019 Hype Cycle for Blockchain Technologies report from Gartner indicates that blockchain is "sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment," a period in technologies and markets when interest diminishes after experiments and implementations fail to deliver.

"Blockchain technologies have not yet lived up to the hype, and most enterprise blockchain projects are stuck in experimentation mode," said Avivah Litan...