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Accountability in the Digital Asset Business

Soumak Chatterjee, Louisa Bai, Janine Moir, Luisa Reyes, Neha Bhasin, Andy Kim

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/accountability-in-the-digital-asset-business/

Sep 16, 2021 - With decentralization as a key design tenet, distributed ledger technologies are difficult to govern with centralized models of organizational oversight. While cryptoassets, smart contracts, and blockchains create efficiencies and mitigate certain known business risks, they introduce a unique set of risks. This project outlines strategies for managing, measuring, and mitigating these risks. For enhancing controls, its authors map out an integrated control framework with standards, roles, and responsibilities. They also look at audit and assurance of Dapps, proof of solvency, and regulatory compliance. Finally, they present a new playbook with...

Introduction to Stablecoins

Alyze Sam, Koosha Azim, Adam Alonzi

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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

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...

The Token Economy: When Money Becomes Programmable

Michael J. Casey

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-token-economy-when-money-becomes-programmable/

Sep 28, 2017 - A new phenomenon—initial coin offerings—enabled through blockchain technology is upending basic tenets of twentieth-century capitalism. This project frames the opportunity in terms of addressing the tragedy of the commons. He studies the development and ramification of the emerging token economy and walks through the landscape of token types. He previews the economic effects of digital scarcity, tokens as powerful incentives, and the legal and policy ramifications for securities law and property rights.

Keyword: cryptoasset, cryptocommodity, cryptocurrency, financial services, ICO, SDG 12, SDG 13, SEC, securities law, technology, token, tragedy of the commons

Trust(less): How Blockchain Will Help Us Navigate the Post-Trust World

Christian Keil

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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

A New Look at Bitcoin

Maciej Cepnik, Gustavo J. Flores Echaiz, Tristan Borges Solari, René Vergé

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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/a-new-look-at-bitcoin/

Jul 31, 2020 - This research takes a fresh look at the Bitcoin network and its native currency, bitcoin. Its authors argue that, while the Bitcoin protocols have proven successful for financial applications, they have hindered scalability, privacy, and programmability. Because of these implementation challenges, some enterprise leaders have looked to Ethereum and other blockchain solutions. But other development teams have found innovative ways to evolve the Bitcoin network and its enterprise capabilities. By building directly on top of existing Bitcoin infrastructure, businesses can profit from its security and network effects without incurring the costs a...

Keyword: Blockstream, Casper, Eltoo, financial services, Kering, Knøx, Lightning Network, Liquid, Merkle tree, Miniscript, Schnorr, SDG 9, sidechain, Taproot, technology, Veriphi, Zcash

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