The U.S. government has begun using blockchains to disseminate key economic data, starting with the U.S. Department of Commerce's release of gross-domestic product (GDP) numbers on Thursday, which was described as a "proof of concept" for doing more of this in the future.

"We are making America’s economic truth immutable and globally accessible like never before, cementing our role as the blockchain capital of the world," said Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, in a statement that announced the new approach to spinning out government data.

In a deliberate effort not to pick blockchain favorites, the department put out Thursday's data via Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, Stellar, Avalanche, Arbitrum One. Polygon PoS and Optimism, identifying the transaction hashes for each in its annou

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