Introduction to Stablecoins
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/introduction-to-stablecoins/
Jan 21, 2021 - This research project looks at stablecoins, a new category of digital assets with stable prices in decentralized financial systems. It achieves three goals. First, it examines different ways to stabilize the price of a cryptocurrency. Some are backed by assets with stable value such as US dollars or gold, others are stabilized by algorithms, and some combine those two approaches. Second, it surveys the landscape of stablecoins and analyze the top ten stablecoins by market capitalization. Finally, it suggests ways to use stablecoins for protecting the value of a cryptoasset portfolio.
Keyword: asset-collateralized,
Binance,
BitShares,
Dai,
DeFi,
Equilibrium’s EOSDT,
financial services,
Gemini Dollar,
Paxos Standard,
SDG 10,
SDG 9,
seigniorage,
stablecoin,
Stably USD,
Tether,
TrueUSD,
USD Coin
A Taxonomy of Digital Assets
File Type: Document
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/a-taxonomy-of-digital-assets/
Jul 11, 2022 - This research brief lays out a taxonomy of nine digital asset categories, including tokens for exchanges, natural assets, platform governance, and smart contracting protocols. For each category, it provides a definition with examples of the asset’s creation and usage. It also explains the asset category’s disruptive effects on financial services and the global economy. The brief is ideal for leaders who want a quick overview of these important financial innovations.
Keyword: Axie Infinity,
Binance,
carbon credits,
China,
DAO,
Dapp,
DeFi,
Korea,
metaverse,
NFT,
Philippines,
stablecoin,
treasury management,
Uniswap
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
File Type: Document, Infographic
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...
Keyword: Australia,
Binance,
Blockchain Capital,
Canada,
China,
COALA,
CopyCashCoin,
Estonia,
Ethereum Foundation,
financial services,
FINMA,
France,
Germany,
Gibraltar,
Howey test,
ICO,
Israel,
Italy,
law & regulation,
Malaysia,
Munchee,
NEO,
New Zealand,
Nexium,
OneCoin,
Plexcorps,
Polybius,
ProtoStarr,
REcoin,
Russia,
SDG 16,
SDG 17,
SEC,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Switzerland,
Tezos Foundation,
TokenFunder,
United Arab Emirates,
United States,
Wysker
Regulation: The Lion, The Unicorn, And The Crown
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-lion-the-unicorn-and-the-crown/
May 10, 2018 - In this research project, Joel Telpner gives us a guided tour of regulatory risk. Pulling lessons from regulating innovation in telecommunications and the financial markets, he focuses on the extent to which the blockchain represents unprecedented regulatory challenges. He advocates a level-headed approach to determining when regulation is necessary and, in such cases, the form that regulation should take, so as to minimize the unintended consequences. Using illustrations by the legendary political cartoonist John Tenniel and passages from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass: and What Alice Found There, Telpner gives executiv...
Keyword: CFTC,
compliance,
cyberanarchy,
Dodd-Frank,
FATF,
financial services,
FinCEN,
FINRA,
law & regulation,
net neutrality,
public policy,
regulatory sandbox,
SDG 16,
SEC,
self-governance,
smart contract
Token Taxonomy: The Need for Open-Source Standards Around Digital Assets
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/token-taxonomy-the-need-for-open-source-standards-around-digital-assets/
Feb 19, 2020 - This project underscores the importance of standards and governance of token innovation in managing digital assets. It takes an in-depth look at the Token Taxonomy Initiative, a new open standards effort championed by a who’s who of enterprise blockchain, from Accenture and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to Microsoft and Web3 Labs. Its members have taken a first-principles blockchain-agnostic approach to developing a Token Taxonomy Framework, which is expected to help unify our understanding of the token economy without sacrificing the decentralization that makes it so powerful. It starts with token types and progresses to token properties, w...
Keyword: CryptoKitty,
Elon Musk,
ERC-20,
ERC-721,
IBM,
ICO,
Intel,
J.P.Morgan,
Marley Gray,
non-fungible,
R3,
Ron Resnick,
SDG 9,
technology
