The block chain isn't interesting without a very well distributed network. Unless you have a lot of entities that are "out for themselves" meaning, they're not going to let anyone else cheat as it doesn't help them, and they get rewarded for securing the network, it doesn't really mean anything. So a bank creating it's own blockchain is just making a ledger. Get enough banks that have less than 25% share in any kind of grouping, in the blockchain, you might have something, but I can't imagine anyone, especially a smaller bank, trusting the big guys.
So in a way, if you don't reward people for securing the blockchain, you can't make it truly distributed and trustless. Hence a good blockchain, in my opinion, will have to have a coin as a function of reward in it. So in a lot of ways, we're kind of stuck with a "coin" for every blockchain, IMO, no matter the main function of it. Especially on wall street, OMG, any way they can cheat - even if it requires cooperation, they'll do it! LOL.
So, yah, Dash simply makes itself interesting by being well established. The better established a coin is, the better a choice it is to build your platform on. What the Dash community could do is fund a project that would create an interface for making it easy for corporations to establish their needs upon the Dash blockchain. There could be a service charge for the use, which would be distributed with the block reward just like fees are. In return they would receive a fast and secure ledger for their transactions. NASDAQ will use Bitcoin, as it's the oldest, but will Bitcoin crumble on the pressures of servicing big companies? Dash is very nimble and if it looks like this is something that we can provide, I'm sure our developers will be able to come up with a quick solution that can be implemented just as quickly.
Anyway, yah, we're totally open to anything that anyone wants to submit, as long as there are rewards enough for taxing the system.
I was going to take a shot at it, but then Tante comes along an nails it.
Your first paragraph describes Ripple perfectly. The second the importance of distributed mining process. The third, be it our biased speculation, how in between the lines it reads that blockchain is not bitcoin and better options are out there. Bitcoin is the pioneer but crippling with every new block. Dash is becoming a behemoth crypto developing tech like wildfire.
No one is delivering on schedule like Dash. Delivering, meaning, actually deploying functionalities, not promises.
NXT ? what the hell is going on with Ethereum?! What does Litecoin bring to the table? When will MaidSafe ever deliver its first bloody beta? Stellar is Ripple/2 (despite morally cleaner), Doge an ideological playground.
And lets not forget the wonderful word "fungible" - That I've come to adore, as it is
this that will truly kink crypto history as a liberating power to the masses, while at the same time perfectly serving the necessities of the economic status quo.