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Pandemic Webinar #4: Going Cashless: The Digital Dollar in the Face of COVID-19
File Type: Document, Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/webinar-the-digital-dollar-in-the-face-of-covid-19/
Apr 28, 2020 - This hour-long webinar is part four in a four-part series on blockchain and pandemics. Don Tapscott opens a discussion with Alex Tapscott and Chris Giancarlo, former Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, about the potential to turn away from cash and towards a state-backed digital currency. On 28 April 2020, the BRI hosted a webinar featuring Chris Giancarlo, former chairman of the former chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and co-director of the Digital Dollar Project. This is an edited transcript of the proceedings. It distinguishes among three types of cryptocurrencies—distributed (Bitcoin), corporate (L...
The Coming Cataclysm
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-coming-cataclysm/
Sep 30, 2019 - This research explores the disruptive effects of blockchain technologies on central banking and the financial services industry. Its author discusses Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, and how the other FAANG companies—that is, Amazon.com, Apple, Netflix, and Google—might respond with their own digital tokens. He introduces five transformations—cryptoassets, the tokenization of everything, blockchains as state machines, a new model for identity, and the nine forms of decentralized finance. He examines the challenges that incumbents and innovators face during this transition; and he previews the world of financial services in th...
Webinar #2: Reinventing Identity on the Blockchain
File Type: Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/webinar-2-reinventing-identity-on-the-blockchain/
Aug 15, 2017 - Hosted by BRI Executive Director Alex Tapscott and featuring South African Entrepreneur Vinny Lingham, CEO of Blockchain Identity management startup Civic. Civic is on a mission to deliver secure, low-cost, and decentralized identity verification via the blockchain. Civic will be an identity platform for everything from passports, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, wedding certificates and more.
Keyword: technology
Digital Asset Revolution
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/digital-asset-revolution/
Dec 01, 2021 - In this white paper, “Digital Asset Revolution: The Rise of DeFi and the Reinvention of Financial Services,” Alex Tapscott explores the disruptive effects of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on the nine functions that Wall Street currently performs. He also examines the creation and use of nine cryptoassets such as non-fungible tokens, stablecoins, DeFi index funds, synthetic securities, and central bank digital currencies. Finally, Alex discusses Web 3 innovations with Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions to such implementation challenges as scalability, interoperability, and ease of use. If bitcoin was the spark for the financial serv...
Webinar #18: Blockchain in Oil and Gas
File Type: Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/webinar-18-blockchain-in-oil-and-gas/
Aug 29, 2019 - This hour-long webinar features Mohamed El-Masri of PermianChain Technologies, a new BRI Pioneer member using blockchain to help companies harness the value of proven oil reserves. Alongside our host Alex Tapscott, El-Masri introduces the process of tokenization, which reduces inefficiencies in the oil and gas market, and enables the creation of digital securities representing natural resources - labeled "Natural Asset Tokens" in Blockchain Revolution.
Pandemic Webinar #5: Climate Change and Economic Recovery in a Post-COVID-19 World
File Type: Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/webinar-climate-change-and-economic-recovery-in-a-post-covid-19-world/
May 12, 2020 - This hour-long webinar is a part of the BRI's series on blockchain and pandemics. Alex Tapscott speaks with Tom Baumann of the Climate Change Coalition, Katherine Foster from the Global Digital Finance Alliance, and Joseph Pallant of Blockchain for Climate Foundation, on how the recession caused by COVID-19 could be the starting point to create a much more sustainable economic future.
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