The future of payments Authors: Maximilian Forster, Jonas Gross, Anja Kristina Kamping, Serkan Katilmis, Dr. Mario Reichel, Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, Philipp Schröder Digitization is taking hold of entire industries, including in Germany. The area of the “Internet of...
In this article, we analyze from a legal perspective how the topic of data protection, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), plays out specifically in the context of blockchain-based databases. In our legal assessment, we distinguish between 1)...
The digital Euro is often discussed as the next big step for mainstream blockchain adoption. Jonas Gross, project manager and researcher at the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center with a focus on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CDBC), talks about the impact of a...
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to address industrial challenges, build trust, and unlock new value across businesses and industries via the use of smart contracts. Initially, DLT was mainly used for financial applications, such as Bitcoin as the...
Authors: Alexander Bechtel, Jonas Gross, Philipp Sandner, Victor von Wachter “Programmable money” is, without doubt, one of the major buzzwords in the blockchain space in 2020. Even though everyone seems to talk about it, we still lack a clear definition and hence...