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...

Managing and verifying forest products in a value chain is often reliant on easily manipulated document or digital tracking methods – Chain of Custody Systems. We aim to create a new means of tracking timber by developing a tamper proof digital system based on Blockchain technology. Blockchain...

We investigate financial contract management on distributed ledgers and provide a working solution implemented on the Ethereum block-chain. The system is based on a domain-specific language for financial contracts that is capable of expressing complex multi-party derivatives and is conducive to...

Systems that use blockchain technology to improve the know-your-customer (KYC) process have only been proposed at a conceptual level and all share certain attributes that make their adoption by financial institutions (FIs) very difficult. We propose and program a blockchain-based system that...

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...

A new type of Automated Market Makers (AMMs) powered by Blockchain technology keep liquidity on-chain and offer transparent price mechanisms. This innovation is a significant step in the direction of building a more transparent and efficient financial market. This paper explores analytically...