23rd November 2022 Digital Bytes

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

The potential role of blockchains in capital markets - to facilitate the massive cross-border movement of capital, capital markets have evolved into a worldwide linked web of banks and intermediaries. Regulation, technology-led market disruption and basic business economics are transforming the capital markets. Blockchain could potentially eliminate intermediaries in capital markets, and so improve the efficiency of the market infrastructure.

Blockchain and cryptography - cryptography enables a blockchain to be secure since transactions are time stamped and recorded, typically in a decentralised manner using encrypted data. Blockchain is one of the more innovative technologies combining consensus mechanisms, peer-to-peer transmission, distributed data storage, digital encryption technology and other computing technologies.

Are crypto legal clarifications required to enable regulators to do their job…