>However, we are also getting close, if Bench pulls off what it is intending, to seeing a major breakthrough in how this industry operates. Like the early days of the Internet when things were fragmented due to a lack of interoperability, we are now witnessing the possible unification similar to what happened in that industry in the 1990s.

Perhaps not the best of analogies, but Bench may be to blockchain what the web was to the internet. Those of us old enough to have been using the internet before www thought that email, ftp, and gopher were very useful and powerful as is. The web changed all of that.