The first global blockchain benchmarking study presents a systematic and comprehensive picture of a rapidly evolving industry, examining how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are being used in the public sector and enterprise. The study analysed non-publicly available data...

Bitcoin blockchain has grown into an active global virtual money network with millions of accounts.We propose a Sparse-Group Network AutoRegressive (SGNAR) model to understand the dynamics of its cross-border transactions. It describes the money flows of virtual funds, with a focus on the...

A vast digital eco-system of entrepreneurship and exchange has sprung up with Bitcoin's digital infrastructure at its core. We explore the worldwide spread of infrastructure necessary to maintain and grow Bitcoin as a system (Bitcoin nodes) and infrastructure enabling the use of bitcoins for...

We report new evidence that the cryptocurrency market behaves as an independent asset class based on high-dimensional stochastic-volatility commonality tests against a basket of global investor sentiment proxies. Our approach’s novelty resides in employment of appropriate sources of risk and...