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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/diamonds-on-the-blockchain/

Dec 22, 2017 - This research looks at the blockchain start-up Everledger's use of distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence in place of flawed, forgeable, and inefficient paperwork to record and verify the provenance of diamonds. It covers use cases involving fine wine and art where an asset's value depends on its authenticity, and it provides managerial considerations for participants in such high-value supply chains. As of 2018, the platform is based on IBM Blockchain, a version of Hyperledger Fabric. Before 2016, Everledger used Ethereum, Eris, and BigchainDB.

Keyword: Chai Wine Vault, conflict diamonds, De Beers, energy & resources, geographical indication, IBM, insurance fraud, Kimberley Process, Leanne Kemp, provenance, SAP Ariba, SDG 12, supply chain, Vastari

Blockchain and the Future of Battery Supply Chains

Anthony D. Williams

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/blockchain-and-the-future-of-battery-supply-chains/

Dec 11, 2019 - This case study covers the challenges facing the cobalt industry and explains how blockchain technology can help by tracking the chain of custody, exposing unethical practices, and improving governance across the cobalt supply chain. The blockchain start-up Circulor combines rigorous processes with smart technology to implement ethical sourcing solutions.

Keyword: Apple, BMW, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dynamic Identity, electric vehicles, energy & resources, Hyperledger Fabric, Kumi Consulting, lithium-ion, OEM, Oracle Blockchain Platform, SDG 12, SDG 7, Volvo

Regulation: The Lion, The Unicorn, And The Crown

Joel Telpner

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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

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...

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

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...

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