Existing payment systems get more and more disrupted. As a consequence of the global trend of digitizing payments and generating new business models from the use of blockchain-based digital programmable money, several new payment initiatives have been announced recently. Besides “classical”...

The digital euro is not a monolithic project. On the contrary: The fields of application are broad, and possible solutions are diverse. This paper provides an overview of use cases, application domains, and infrastructures for the digital euro that differ significantly. A comparison with...

1: Implications of the token economy: A taxonomy and research agenda -- 2: Recovering from blockchain missteps and myths with coopetition -- 3: Finding the right balance–political and technical decentralization in the token economy -- 4: Cryptoeconomics: Designing effective incentives and...