The ecosystem of digital assets continues to change exponentially. In post-COVID times, digital assets may be seen as a cheaper, more liquid, and transparent safe haven compared to that offered by more traditional asset types. Inclusion of new digital assets, especially cryptocurrencies, in...

The current crisis, at the time of writing, has had a profound impact on the financial world, introducing the need for creative approaches to revitalizing the economy at the micro level as well as the macro level. In this informal analysis and design proposal, we describe how infrastructure for...

In recent years, the concept of shared ledger systems offering a single source of truth has begun to put traditional bookkeeping into question. To date, its historical development remains unclear and under-researched. This paper conducts a genealogical analysis of shared ledger systems from...

In this research, the evolution of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in supply chains has been mapped from the inception of the technology until June 2020, utilizing primarily public data sources. Two hundred seventy-one block-chain projects operating in the supply chain have been analysed on...

This study covers the evolutionary development of block-chain technologies over the last 11 years (2009 — 2019) and sheds lights on potential areas of innovation in heretofore unexplored sub-components. For this purpose, we collected and analysed detailed data on 107 different block-chain...

Part I: Defining the Internet of Value 1 -- Chapter 1. Defining the Internet of Value -- Part II: How DLT will evolve in the Future 13 -- Chapter 2. Blockchains, DLTs and the Future of Payments 15 -- Chapter 3. Consensus: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake and Structural Alternatives. Part III: The...

A comparative study across the most widely known blockchain technologies is conducted with a bottom-up approach. Blockchains are disentangled into building blocks. Each building block is then hierarchically classified in main and subcomponents. Then, alternative layouts for the subcomponents are...