Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar Digital Transparency Economy

8 min readMar 27, 2025

Ben Jorgensen — CEO of Constellation Network ($DAG)

This was a presentation and keynote presented at the Digital Chamber Blockchain Summit in Washington D.C. on March 26,2025.

Introduction

Good morning, everyone. It’s an honor to be here with you today at the Digital Chamber Summit (@digitalchamber).

We stand at a fascinating inflection point in economic history. In 2025, humanity will create approximately 463 exabytes of data every day. To put this into perspective, imagine that every grain of sand represents 1 megabyte of data. There are roughly 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on Earth, so the entire planet would represent 7,500 exabytes. In other words, we produce 6% of all sand on Earth everyday, and in 16 days the amount of new data would surpass the number of grains of sand on Earth.

This number really starts to grow when you look at the next 10 years. By 2035, that number skyrockets to over 11,000 exabytes daily — more data created in 24 hours than existed in the entire digital universe in 2015.

This unprecedented abundance has created a paradox: as data becomes increasingly plentiful, its inherent value decreases, while the economic potential of verifying and authenticating that data grows exponentially. It’s no longer about who has the most data — it’s about who can transform abundant data into verified intelligence that drives trillion-dollar opportunities.

The Opportunity Horizon

Let’s explore the extraordinary economic frontier that’s emerging from our data abundance. By 2030, the global data economy is projected to reach $13 trillion, representing over 10% of global GDP. Organizations that effectively harness their data are already seeing tangible results — achieving 30% faster time-to-market for new products and a 20–25% increase in operational efficiency.

This represents an unprecedented opportunity horizon in our data economy — the vast potential waiting to be unlocked through intelligent data utilization. McKinsey estimates that data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, 6 times more likely to retain customers, and 19 times more likely to be profitable.

The transformative impact extends across sectors:

Public Sector using verification stands to have the highest potential return at 7x due to compliance impacting nearly every industry which equates to a nearly $5.8T opportunity.
Healthcare organizations leveraging advanced analytics have reduced patient readmission rates by 35% while improving diagnostic accuracy by 40%
Financial institutions implementing data-driven decision systems have identified 60% more fraud cases while reducing false positives by 50%
Manufacturing companies using predictive maintenance based on operational data have decreased downtime by 45% and extended equipment life by 20–30%

But here’s the critical insight: this isn’t just about optimization — it’s a trillion-dollar economic revolution. When we harness this ocean of data through verification technologies, we create entirely new markets, business models, and economic paradigms. The World Economic Forum projects that by 2035, data-driven decision-making could contribute an additional $15.7 trillion to the global economy — more than the current output of China and India combined.

To elaborate a bit further, Gartner reports that executives don’t even trust their data. Over 80% of executives make critical decisions with untrusted data with only 3% of that data actually being utilized and trusted.

The economics of abundance create fundamentally different opportunities than the economics of scarcity, and organizations that understand this shift will capture extraordinary value in markets that don’t even exist today.

The Abundance Paradox

Let me offer a framework for understanding the economics at play, let’s refer to the Abundance Paradox:

“As a resource becomes abundant, its unit value approaches zero, while the value of verification, authentication, and transformation of that resource approaches infinity.”

This pattern has repeated throughout economic history:

When information became abundant through the internet, individual facts lost value, but the ability to organize and verify that information (Google) created one of history’s most valuable companies.
When music became abundant through digital distribution, individual songs lost value, but platforms that authenticate and deliver personalized experiences (Spotify) created billions in value.

Now, as more kinds of data become superabundant, we’re entering a new phase of this paradox with trillion-dollar implications:

Transaction economics transform: Verified data reduces the cost of trust by up to 70% across industries, but more importantly, it enables entirely new transaction categories previously impossible due to trust barriers. Enter Blockchain.
Compliance transforms from cost to asset: The cost of regulatory compliance in the US is substantial, with studies estimating that federal regulations cost the US economy around $3.079 trillion annually, or 12% of the US GDP. This includes costs for businesses, including payroll for compliance departments, regulatory reporting, and systems required for compliance.
Innovation becomes exponential: Organizations with high data transparency report 58% faster innovation cycles and 2.1x greater return on R&D investment, fundamentally altering the economics of product development.

The Transparency Catalyst

This isn’t just about technology — it’s about fundamentally reimagining how we create, capture, and distribute value.

What’s standing in our way?

The answer is simple in theory but complex in practice: we used to lack the infrastructure necessary to verify the authenticity, provenance, and integrity of data at scale. Now with Constellation we have that — we just need a catalyst to drive adoption.

Enter Digital Evidence

This economic transformation is precisely why we’ve developed Digital Evidence — not just as a product, but as a proof point for the trillion-dollar verification economy.

By leveraging Constellation’s distributed ledger technology, validated based on years of R&D involving the US Department of Defense, we’ve created a system that transforms data from a liability requiring constant defense into an asset that generates compounding value.

Digital Evidence represents this very catalyst and this is just one, of many, critical data streams that Digital Evidence can unlock to reduce inefficiencies through verification. It takes raw inputs from emergency vehicles, Panasonic Toughbooks, and operational systems, then transforms them into immutable, verified assets that carry inherently higher economic value.

But this is just one framework. Digital Evidence is reusable for many use cases that unlock more economic possibilities for nearly every industry. When we establish immutable, verifiable records for any form of data, we’re not just solving compliance problems — we’re creating the foundation for entirely new economic models. The most valuable companies of the next decade won’t be those that amass the most data; they’ll be those that most effectively transform abundant data into authenticated intelligence that commands premium value in the marketplace.

The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity

When abundant data becomes verified and transparent, entirely new categories of economic value emerge:

New Asset Classes: The tokenization market for real-world assets is projected to reach $16 trillion by 2030. Verified data serves as the essential foundation for this new asset class, enabling everything from fractional real estate ownership to portable digital credentials.
AI Intelligence Economies: AI, the largest consumers of data and energy is projected to contribute $15.7T to the global economy. AI systems trained on verified, transparent data show a 42% reduction in bias and a 37% improvement in accuracy (thus reducing costs). As AI becomes increasingly central to business operations, verified data becomes the premium fuel driving competitive advantage.We have started to explore prototypes of this with Common Crawl — the largest data archive used by 80% of LLMs.
Programmable Value Exchange: Decentralized applications operating on verified data can incentivize data collection and the utility of it. This is a fundamental transformation of what’s economically possible.
Data as Infrastructure: Transparent, verifiable public data could generate $3.2 trillion in social value annually by 2030. This represents a new category of digital infrastructure as economically significant as road networks and power grids were to industrial economies.

These aren’t just improvements to existing systems — they’re entirely new economic frontiers opened by the ability to verify abundant data at scale.

Capturing Exponential Value

As we look toward unlocking this trillion-dollar potential, three strategic principles will separate market leaders from followers:

Beyond-Trust Design: The organizations that create the most value won’t just improve trust — they’ll design systems that make traditional trust mechanisms obsolete. By building verification into the foundation of their data infrastructure, they’ll create competitive advantages that others can’t easily replicate.
Verification Networks: The greatest value won’t be captured by those who verify data in isolation, but by those who create networks of verified data flowing across traditional boundaries. These verification networks will generate compound intelligence that exceeds the sum of individual data contributions.
Abundance Economics: Success in the transparency/verification economy requires understanding the fundamentally different economics of abundance versus scarcity. Organizations that apply scarcity-based thinking to abundance-based problems will systematically undervalue the verification opportunity, while those who master abundance economics will identify trillion-dollar opportunities underwritten in efficiencies that unlock the next innovation explosions.

Conclusion: Beyond Value

We stand at the threshold of a new economic era — one where verification technology unlocks trillions in latent value from our abundant data resources.

At Constellation Network, we’ve positioned ourselves at the forefront of this transformation. By partnering with industry leaders like Panasonic and developing solutions like Digital Evidence, we’re demonstrating how verification technology transforms abundant data into exponentially valuable intelligence.

But this isn’t ultimately about technology — it’s about vision. It’s about recognizing that in a world where data becomes infinitely abundant, the critical economic bottleneck isn’t production — it’s verification. Those who solve this verification challenge unlock extraordinary value not just for themselves, but for entire economic ecosystems.

I invite you to consider how your organization will navigate this new economic landscape. Are you still focusing primarily on data accumulation, or are you investing in verification capabilities that multiply the value of the data you already have? Are you still thinking in terms of scarcity economics, or are you ready to capture the extraordinary opportunities of abundance economics?

Because in the transparency economy, the most valuable resource isn’t data — it’s the ability to transform that data from an abundant commodity into verified intelligence that drives trillion-dollar opportunities.

Thank you.

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