Belt and Road Blockchain Consortium
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/belt-and-road-blockchain-consortium/
May 24, 2018 - This case zeroes in on the work of the Belt and Road Blockchain Consortium, founded to support China’s One Belt One Road Initiative connecting more than 70 countries across Asia, Africa, and Europe. The consortium is applying blockchain technology to verify the identities of parties in a transaction, advance safety and security protocols, expedite customs settlement, manage intellectual property, and facilitate border controls. This initiative is a mammoth undertaking, one that will define standards for world trade for generations to come.
Keyword: customs & borders,
Cyberport,
digital identity,
government,
green investing,
GS1,
HSBC,
IP,
KPMG,
logistics,
Pindar Wong,
SDG 17,
SDG 8,
SDG 9,
Sharia-compliant,
shipping,
trade finance
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
Trust(less): How Blockchain Will Help Us Navigate the Post-Trust World
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/trustless-how-blockchain-will-help-us-navigate-the-post-trust-world/
Oct 31, 2019 - This is the second half of Trust(less): How Blockchain Will Help Us Navigate the Post-Trust World. It explores the broken promises of prominent players in the first ten years of blockchain technology and examines their behavior in terms of their benevolence, competence, and integrity. It also addresses the negative associations that orbit blockchain in the mind of the average, semi-informed observer and outlines a four-step process for rebuilding trust in the blockchain ecosystem.
Keyword: BitConnect,
Bitfinex,
Coinbase,
ConsenSys,
Facebook,
ICO,
law & regulation,
LBRY,
Mt. Gox,
Nouriel Roubini,
PayPal,
Polkadot,
SDG 16,
SDG 9,
storytelling,
technology,
The DAO,
Wikileaks,
Yuval Noah Harari
Ride-Sharing on the Blockchain
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/ride-sharing-on-the-blockchain/
Feb 11, 2019 - This case study outlines the potential benefits for all stakeholders in the Montreal-based Eva ride-sharing cooperative—car owners, drivers, passengers, and local governments. Based on the EOS blockchain protocols, Eva peer-to-peer transportation is an open-supply system, whereas the taxi and limousine business is a fixed-supply system. Those two models cannot be regulated or run in the same say. This case looks at the tough road ahead for any start-up in such a hypercompetitive market.
Keyword: co-op,
DiDi,
electric vehicle,
EOS,
government,
Lyft,
Quebec,
SDG 11,
SDG 8,
sharing economy,
Taxify,
transportation,
Uber