The promising markets for voluntary carbon credits are faced with crippling challenges to the certification of carbon sequestration and the lack of scalable market infrastructure in which companies and institutions can invest in carbon offsetting. This amounts to a funding problem for green...

The smart contract-based markets for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum blockchain have seen tremendous growth in 2021, with trading volumes peaking at $ 3.5b in September 2021. This dramatic surge has led to industry observers questioning the authenticity of on-chain volumes, given the...

The IS discourse on the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the financial services has grown at a tremendous pace in recent years. Yet, little has been said about the related implications for the costly and highly regulated process of compliance reporting. Working with a group of...

Decentralized financial application (DeFi) are a new type of consumer-facing financial application composed of as ‘smart contracts’ deployed on a permis- sionless blockchain. We situate the DeFi concept in the theoretical context of permissionless blockchain and provide a taxonomical...

We document ongoing research on a digital artefact comprising a settlement layer for financial contracts traded over the counter (OTC). Working with a team of stakeholders from a hosting organization we employ the design science research methodology (DSR) in the design, implementation and...

We present a compact model for blind multiparty verification of compilation results. By employing a simple incentive scheme, we construct a mechanism, staking a deposit value on the correctness of compiled and deployed byte code. A blind committee of peers evaluate the authenticity of the...

Automated market makers (AMM) have grown to obtain significant market share within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, resulting in a proliferation of new products pursuing exotic strategies for horizontal differentiation. Yet, their theoretical properties are curiously homogeneous when a set of basic...

We document the design and development of a modular blockchain IT artefact, affording stakeholders in emerging economies the ability to deploy and collectively govern resilient financial infrastructure. The artefact comprises a smart contract system implementing an iterative policy framework...