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Greg McMullen, Primavera De Filippi, Constance Choi

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/blockchain-identity-services/

Jul 31, 2019 - This project examines how blockchain supports user centric identity systems, through such technological primitives as public key cryptography, hashing functions, zero-knowledge proofs, and homomorphic encryption. Its authors set nine benchmarks—technical specifications, governance, security, privacy, recovery and revocation, user experience, data controls, and degrees of decentralization and self-sovereignty—by which prospective users and ecosystem partners might assess different identity services and compare them to each other and the status quo. The purpose is to help users map their goals to the technical features necessary for achievi...

Keyword: Aadhaar, Authenteq, Blockstack, Brickchain, Civic, COALA, EverID, government, Jolocom, SDG 10, SDG 16, Sovrin, technology, uPort, Veres One

Regulatory Framework For Token Sales

Primavera de Filippi, Constance Choi, Benedikt Schuppli, Carla Reyes, Nikita Divissenko, Xavier Lavayssiere, Francesco Dagnino, Marcus C. Funke, Frank Bierwirth, Axel Schiemann, Jiong Sheng, Gianna Abegg, Nathan Kaiser, Jackie Yang

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/regulatory-framework-for-token-sales/

Apr 30, 2018 - This research surveys the global landscape of regulatory frameworks, statements, and decisions, on blockchain-based token sales in the jurisdictions of the United States, Canada, Singapore, China, France, Germany, Italy, Estonia, Switzerland, and Gibraltar, with commentary on Malaysia, South Korea, Israel, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Arab Emirates. Its expert authors look at initial coin offerings and compare how different regulators are categorizing token sales in their attempts to balance the protection of investors with the stimulus of innovat...

Cryptoeconomics

Cathy Barrera, Stephanie Hurder

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/cryptoeconomics/

Jan 13, 2020 - This project is an executive’s guide to the emerging field of cryptoeconomics, the study of individual and collective choices in blockchain-based environments. These environments are more difficult to change than other software ecosystems, and so their creators must design them very thoughtfully. The authors provide a framework for economic design and walk through the phases of the design process. Through the case studies of Nestlé OpenSC, AXA fizzy, and the Synaptic Health Alliance, they analyze the challenges that stakeholders face in governing blockchain projects, and they explain why many projects fail to achieve their goals. It is a m...

Keyword: asymmetric information, AXA, game theory, Humana, incentive layer, management, monetary policy, moral hazard, Nestlé, Oracle, Quest Diagnostics, SDG 12, token layer

The Coming Cataclysm

Alex Tapscott

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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...

Keyword: Abra, Christine Lagarde, CoinShares, Corda, Cosmos, Facebook, Fidelity, financial services, J.P.Morgan, Libra, MakerDAO, Mark Carney, Quorum, Ripple, SDG 10, SDG 9, stablecoin, YouNow

Managing Blockchain Transparency

Andreas Park

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/managing-blockchain-transparency/

Nov 10, 2017 - In this research, Park explains that transparency is a design choice. Whether the blockchain is public and permissionless, such as the Bitcoin or Ethereum blockchains, or private and permissioned, such as Ripple or Hyperledger implementations, transactions are traceable with attribution of actions to identifiers. Therefore, the technology has a native high level of transparency. Users can still protect their privacy in both private and public blockchains: some methods are procedural and involve the smart usage of the protocol, whereas others are technological and use mathematics. Park argues for public disclosure even on permissioned blockcha...

Keyword: Enron, financial innovation, financial services, linkable ring signatures, permissioned blockchain, permissionless, R3, Rotman School of Management, SDG 16, technology, University of Toronto, zero knowledge proofs

Declaration of Interdependence

Don Tapscott

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/declaration-of-interdependence/

Jan 16, 2018 - This manifesto for change calls for a new social contract, one that redefines the relationship between individuals in society and the institutions they have created to self-govern. It looks at the four drivers of this change—the Fourth Industrial Revolution, globalization of ideas and the economy, climate change, and demographic shifts due to war, drought, and oppression. It identifies such global disruptions as structural unemployment and inequality; failing education, healthcare, and research and development; human rights violations; and a biosphere in crisis. It identifies the four core change makers—the private sector, the state, civi...

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