Innovative blockchain-based technologies are promising tools to address issues of limited trust and transparency across the construction industry’s supply chains. To provide further insight on how to encourage blockchain-based technologies adoption in construction, this study examines the...

Abstract. Blockchain (or crypto) foundations are nonprofit organizations that supply public goods to a crypto-economy. The standard theory of crypto foundations is that they are like governments with respect to a national or regional economy, i.e. raising a public treasury and allocating...

In her article, “Beyond Bitcoin: Leveraging Blockchain to Benefit Business and Society,” Professor Weldon explores the potential of blockchain technology to transform corporate governance and risk management and to promote the principles of transparency that animate various...

Financial technology (FinTech) is an emergent industry that combines two traditional industries: finance and technology. FinTech transforms and innovates the finance industry with up-to-date technology to provide efficiency to the capital market and financial service providers. This teaching...

Our legacy financial infrastructure has both limited growth opportunities and contributed to the inequality of opportunities. Around the world, 1.7 billion are unbanked. Small businesses, even those with a banking relationship, often must rely on high-cost financing, such as credit cards,...

This study examines the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) sentiment as a motivation for retail investors to own ICOs. In the extant literature, this sentiment is suggested to be a possible factor explaining ICO investing. This study examines this empirically. Using novel OECD survey data on ICO...

Based on an analysis of the literature on the interaction of law and DLT/blockchain, the paper argues that hype cycle dynamics apply in legal discourse. Thinking in hype cycle categories provides a structured way for analysing the potential legal implications of a particular innovation. This...

As the use of online transaction is increasing day by day, the security measure parameter is difficult to manage. In that case, Blockchain enables peer-to-peer transfer of digital assets without any intermediaries in a secure manner with the use of verification and validation operation by...

This chapter addresses the myth of decentralized governance of public blockchains, arguing that certain people who create, operate, or reshape them function much like fiduciaries of those who rely on these powerful data structures. Explicating the crucial functions that leading software...

Blockchains and applications built on blockchains are decentralised ecosystems that are nonetheless built by centralised firms. The typical launch and maturity of a blockchain ecosystem involves the transition from an entrepreneurial institutional arrangement characterised by market...