10th August 2022 Digital Bytes

Welcome to this week’s Digital Bytes. This week we have analysis on the following topics:

Tokenisation is not new, but where does it lead to? - tokens have been used in the UK since the 17th century and payments have used tokenisation to protect data since 2001. Now we are seeing a rise in tokenisation of assets disintermediating traditional financial markets. With the tokenisation of cash and mutual funds, could this be the ‘killer’ use case of blockchain technology? But do we actually want our data tokenised and used by others?

The blockchain-based project just switching on the lights for 3,000 Senegal villagers - there are still 733 million people around the world who do not have access to electricity. Closing this energy infrastructure gap and bringing electricity to more communities is one of the reasons the #connect2evolve project was founded to deliver clean, decentralised power to communities with little or no access to electricity. Transparency of how funds are used is one of t…