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...

This edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain, its drivers and barriers, business modelling and...