Countries around the world could adopt their own digital currency yet there is still work to be done by central banks to weigh up the risks and benefits.
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Decentralized finance makes it easier for virtually anyone to take advantage of financial markets without the need for a bank, but there are new risks as well.
Under the current rules, the federal government takes the most responsibility for buying carbon credits. A blockchain-driven market would be faster, smarter, and much more open.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
Blockchain technologies can support users in controlling access to their data through smart contracts that both empower and protect users.
Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Tokens, the next stage in the development of blockchain technologies, can help expand blockchains’ uses beyond simply exchanging money.
Blockchains and AI could play a key role in the decentralised energy systems of the future.
Law presumes that commercial contracts are intended to be legally binding, even where computers play a part in the bargain.
Cryptocurrencies encompass a wide range of technologies, communities and uses. Not all of them are taken seriously.
How a technology born from finance – the blockchain – can help the pharmaceutical industry to carry out clinical trials that protect patients.
The blockchain has been successful when it comes to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but we haven’t yet figured out other uses.
Laws cannot keep pace with technological advances – but that may not be a bad thing.
Already becoming a darling of Wall Street, blockchain technology’s biggest real benefits could come to the world’s poorest people. Here’s how.
There are many hidden costs and inefficiencies in housing markets. Blockchain is poised to transform that.
Consider, for a moment, these two statements from the “Ultimate Guide to Understanding Blockchain Smart Contracts” on a well known Blockchain website: 1) Traditional Contracts “Traditional physical contracts…
For a discipline that is supposedly rational, finance has had its fair share of irrational crazes. For example, the dotcom bubble and the collateralized debt obligation craze that led to the global financial…
Apparently, the world is holding its breath on the unloading of a few bales of cotton, which “could change trade forever”. In Qingdao sometime in early November, 88 bales of cotton will be unloaded and…
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