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. — Authors: Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, Benjamin Schaub, Kiana Weiss The report consists of 16 pages and can be downloaded here with…

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…

The digital euro is not a monolithic project. On the contrary: The fields of application are broad, and possible solutions are diverse. This article provides an overview of use cases, application domains, and infrastructures for the digital euro that differ significantly. A comparison with solutions for the digital dollar and…

Goldman Sachs predicts Bitcoin to hit $100,000 USD this year, blockchain VC investments in 2021 reached dizzying heights, the crypto job market is growing at break-neck speed. Despite a continued wave of good news regarding crypto adoption on both an institutional and retail level, market movements have been far from…

In Canada, truckers are protesting against vaccine mandates. A GoFundMe campaign in support of the protests was shut down. Subsequently, another fundraising campaign based on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network was initiated. With Tallycoin, a fundraiser of over 6 BTC, worth around $250,000 at the time of writing, from 3400+…

The Technical University of Munich is one of the best universities in Europe. Top performance in research and teaching, interdisciplinarity and talent promotion are its hallmarks. The Chair of Strategy and Organization (Prof. Dr. Isabell M. Welpe) offers a PhD opportunity together with the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (Prof. Dr…