Students interview Paolo Tasca, Nikhil Vadgama and Jiahua Xu In an initiative led by their teacher Monica Stragliotto, high school students of the Liceo G.B. Brocchi (Bassano del Grappa, Italy) interviewed members of UCL’s CBT team. With Ms. Stragliotto as moderator, Paolo Tasca (CBT Executive Director), Nikhil Vadgama (CBT Deputy Director) and Jiahua Xu (CBT Research Project Manager). They…

Piselli Riccardo and Tasca Paolo (Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London) At the beginning of 2017, the watchword that animated the financial circles of the City of London was “Fintech” (English for techno finance): today, more than two years later, the keyword is “DeFi”, decentralised finance. The distinction has essentially two values: the first is qualitative, the second quantitative.

Authors: Meaghan Gallagher and Marcos G Fuentes. Context to Blockchain and the British Museum The digital revolution, led by technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, may create a better world for our society. This short article explores how the blockchain may bring benefits to an existing historic…

UCL CBT has co-authored a white paper with HM Land Registry and Mishcon de Reya on applications of DLT to Land Registry. The white paper is based on the recent proof of concept project developed by HM Land Registry Digital Street project together with consortium of partners. Background Real estate…

Dr. Giovanna Massarotto, Programme Coordinator of the UCL CBT Blockchain Rules Online Executive Programme interviews Professor Herbert Hovenkamp, author of the book “Antitrust Law “ which is studied by all antitrust scholars and practitioners and which is currently the most cited legal reference on the subject. According to the New…

Dr. Giovanna Massarotto, Programme Coordinator of the UCL CBT Blockchain Rules Online Executive Programme interviews the Chief Economist of Chainalysis, Philip Gradwell. Chainalysis is the blockchain analysis company, they provide compliance and investigation software to the world’s leading banks, businesses, and governments in over 40 countries. In this podcast…

Dr. Giovanna Massarotto, Programme Coordinator of the UCL Blockchain Rules Online Programme interviews today Kevin Werbach, author of the book “The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust (MIT Press)” Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Counsel for New Technology Policy at…

Our new series of interviews are based on the executive online programme “Blockchain Rules”. In this series, we are going to interview thought leaders from the blockchain ecosystem interested in sharing their thoughts and opinion about the topics that will be covered in the “Blockchain Rules” course. In the…

Blockchain is not an immature technology anymore, leading international enterprises are piloting applications built using blockchain technology and enterprise investments in blockchain solutions are now exceeding $20 billion. In this article, we are going to provide a snapshot of projects which utilise blockchain technology to solve problems in industries ranging…