Circle launched the US dollar stablecoin USDC. The market capitalization of USDC has grown to a significant size of more than $50B. As of today, there is no euro stablecoin of a similar size. Now, Circle has announced plans to launch a euro stablecoin, starting June 30, 2022, based on…

The EU Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) proposal would impose invasive checks, extensive collection of personal data and monitoring of all transfers of crypto assets involving self-hosted wallets. It would undermine fundamental human right to privacy and expose self-hosted wallet holders to significant risks. Effectively, it would amount to a…

Nehmen Sie am 1. Krypto-Investoren-Tag 2022 teil! Die Veranstaltung findet am Donnerstag, den 23. Juni 2022 an der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management statt. Wir bringen die bekanntesten deutschsprachigen Krypto-Investitionsvehikel, Experten und Vertreter von semiprofessionellen und professionellen Investoren zusammen. Über das Event Wann: Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2022, 8:45 Uhr bis 13:30…

The European Central Bank (ECB) frequently projects inflation numbers. Since one year, these inflation estimations are dramatically wrong. All the time. The inflation for April 2022 was measured with 7.4%. This means that prices on average are 7.4% higher than one year ago. In May 2022, Philip Lane, Member of…

With this article, we provide a booklet on important legal topics around blockchain technology for the jurisdiction of Germany. In particular, the booklet addresses legal issues in the context of industrial use cases of blockchain technology. In this vein, it is designed as a handbook for industrial and financial companies…

The Crypto Assets Conference (CAC) is organized every year by the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center and is one of the leading European conferences on crypto assets. The 3-day conference at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management is packed with more than 70 presentations and panel discussions with industry experts…

The Coinbase Crypto Report 01 Europe 2022 H1 (CCRE) examines the behavior and the investment climate of crypto asset owners in Europe in the first half of 2022. — Philipp Sandner, Benjamin Schaub, Kiana Weiss The report consists of 16 pages and can be downloaded here with the direct link…

We have designed an 18-week long program with 3 phases that will help ambitious and young career starters to break into the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem. Our goal is to guide the way for you to become entrepreneurs, technologists, lawyers, investors, or multiplicators in the surging NFT space. This program…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the (r)evolutionary movement to create a solely code-based, intermediary-independent financial system — a movement which has grown from $4bn to $104bn in assets locked in the last three years. We present the first systematic literature review of the yet fragmented DeFi research field. By identifying, analyzing…