Some participants in the crypto/blockchain/ DLT industry actively invite regulatory oversight but policy considerations and the usual patterns of legal and regulatory development can mean that wanting to be regulated is not always the same as being able to be regulated. This article examines...

Blockchain and other business disruption technologies have created a buzz in the last few years and have become an inevitable discussions topic in the financial circles. It will have game-changing impact on businesses, particularly on the banking and financial services. Consortium or Enterprise...

Blockchain technologies have generated excitement, yet their potential to enable new forms of governance remains largely unexplored. Two confronting standpoints dominate the emergent debate around blockchain-based governance: discourses characterised by the presence of techno-determinist and...

Web3, underpinned by blockchain technology, is an evolution of digital infrastructure, whereby protocol facilitates the direct exchange of value between users, removing the need for trusted intermediaries. Existing blockchain experiments seek to create artist-centric business models, dismantling...

As a consequence of the blockchain revolution, a key challenge of our times is to identify the legal boundaries of smart contracts and thus to develop conflict rules for divergences between state law and technology-based code. Even if smart contracts are technologically self-executing, they are...

This paper presents an overview of cryptocurrencies and blockchains for policy makers. It begins with an overview of market and industry basics, highlighting general interest in use and potential use cases. The paper then presents nine risks associated with use and development of...

India's demonetisation of November 2016 has become a major trigger for the country to move towards digitization and become a cash-free country. Though in their nascent stages, newer and potentially disruptive innovations such as Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain have the potential to replace paper...

Blockchain technology has been hailed as the next disruptive leap forward in data sciences. Most legal scholarship related to the topic has focused on its relevance to finance, but it could revolutionize business supply chains. Specifically, blockchain-enabled solutions are expected to improve...

This paper blueprints the framework for a research project with several objectives. The concept of Fiat-Money-Equivalent (FME) is introduced to outline challenges with volatility of digital payment systems. Also, a localizer function is introduced to overcome transparency challenges in modeling...

Unlike conventional contracts established through speech, written words, or actions, smart contracts are algorithmic, self-executing and self-enforcing computer programs. In this article, we analyze smart contracts from the perspective of digital platforms and the Finnish contract law. We...