Research Highlights:

Why CBDCs are being considered?

Design and Architecture choices for CBDC

Benefits and drawbacks of CBDC

The impact of COVID-19 on CBDC

Research Highlights:

Introduction to Complex Dynamics

The Contagion of Economic Narratives

System Resilience Assessment

Current Economic Paradigm at a Tipping Point?

Quantifying Bitcoin as an Emerging Store of Value

Pre-Coronavirus Behavior in 2020

Macroeconomic drivers for stores of value in the coming recession

Bitcoin’s resilience going forward

Research Highlights:

Carbon Credit Overview

The problem: Fragmented and mispriced markets

Types of Carbon Markets

Economics of Carbon Credits

The Solution: Tokenization of Carbon Credits

Token Issuance Structuring

Research Highlights:

DeFi and debt ceilings

Deleveraging debt in Maker DAO

Why QE hasn’t and can’t work as intended

QE Part 2

The Fed loses control over money rates?

Rumble in the repo market

Multi-collateral DAI: DeFi moving closer to the real world

Pooled ETH: A zero-coupon bond for ETH

Research Highlights

Blockchain and the next era of globalization

Multilateral governance reaching its limits

The rise of the multi-stakeholder model

The World Economic Forum and blockchain

An overview of blockchain consortia

The Motivations for joining a blockchain consortium

Potential conflicts in blockchain consortia

Governance: A new value-add in blockchain

‘Decentralized Governance’ a conflated term

Libra Association Council Vs Hedera Council

The R3 Consortium 19

The role of tokenized assets in enterprise

Research Highlights

The enterprise blockchain landscape

The growing complexity of supply chains

How blockchain can be used in enterprise

Private, permissioned or public?

The preferred platforms for enterprise

Disagreements in scaling Ethereum 2.0

A brief history of Ethereum’s governance issues

Ethereum 2.0: The path to Serenity

Is the competition catching up with Ethereum

Appeal to enterprise and corporations

Key Highlights

Corporate governance as a mini economy

DAOs, creating more democratic organizations?

Blockchain-based voting innovations

The meaning of work in the 21st century

How DAOs are shaping the future of work

Future obstacles to the shareholder model

Why is decentralized governance needed?

Under the hood of a DAO: Game Theory

DAO governance asset profiles

Key Highlights

The decline of cash across countries

The new digital cash and commodity money

The rise of ‘surveillance capitalism’

Digital assets to benefit from the removal of cash

A world of negative central bank interest rates

The rise of alternative monetary policy

The rise of Modern Monetary Theory

Gresham’s Law: How MMT could benefit crypto commodities

The Bitcoin-Litecoin ratio

The importance of the stock-to-flow (SF) ratio of bitcoin

Central bank digital currencies and trade wars

Research Highlights:

Security Token Offerings

Evolution of Capital Formation

Security Token Market Opportunity to 2022

Breakdown of Security Token Offerings

Benefits of Security Tokens

Legal Rights in STOs

Smart Contracts

Security Token Classification

Asset Types available for Allocation

Hybrid Equity

Security Token Ecosystem

STO Structures

Security Token Economics

Security Token Custody

Regulation and Taxation

Key Highlights:

Changes in trends and sentiment

US election 2020: An upwind for decentralized internet and media?

The current problem: Media echo chambers

The decentralized solution: Curation markets

The current problem: Spreading offensive content

The decentralized solution: Staking reputation and skin in the game

Crypto media assets and platforms that may benefit

Roadblocks and risks for Decentralized Media

Current media model close to the end?

Research Highlights:

What Is a Stablecoin?

Stablecoin Use-Cases: What Are They For?

Stablecoin Mechanics: How Do They Work?

Stablecoin Market Overview

Stablecoin Wars: Winners and Losers

Competitors to Crypto Stablecoins: IMF SDR and CBDC

The Future of Stablecoins