The work provides a method for classifying blockchains and crypto-assets, facilitating their comparison for business and regulatory purposes. Blockchains - and more generally systems based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - adopt different technologic configurations, each distinguished by...

Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation. Defining Web3 presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research from leading scholars in the field of cryptocurrencies and blockchains....

Wie viel Dezentralität und wie viel Finanzierung der Realwirtschaft steckt in Decentralized Finance? Was sind Token eigentlich und wo liegt der Nutzen von Tokenization? Sind Token-versus-Token-Geschäfte schon ein Vorbote eines Schattenbank 2.0 Systems? Wie wirkt sich der allgemeine Trend zu...