Working at a university, dozens of people ask us: “How can I get into blockchain? What do I have to study?” To respond to this question, we now took the time and developed a 10-day program to onboard people interested in Bitcoin, crypto assets and blockchain technology in general. The…

Authors: Philipp Sandner, Jonas Gross 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…

Authors: Markus Kaulartz, Jonas Gross, Constantin Lichti, Philipp Sandner Considering that information is seen as the new gold of the digital age, data protection is a powerful tool that does not spare blockchain-based data. This article outlines the lawful obligation for anonymization of different data that can be stored on…

Authors: Markus Kaulartz, Jonas Gross, Constantin Lichti, Philipp Sandner Which influences do new technologies have on the existing liability regime, which is already complicated without the use of distributed systems? This article sheds light on contractual and product liability in general before addressing the liability question of smart contracts. A…

Frankfurt am Main — November 19, 2021 — Das Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) hat im Auftrag der Finanzplatz München Initiative (fpmi) eine Studie zum programmierbaren Euro veröffentlicht, einem blockchain-basierten Euro, der programmierbare Zahlungen ermöglicht. Diese Studie legt dar, wie DLT- basierte Zahlungssysteme und ein programmierbarer Euro innovative Geschäftsmodelle der…

Frankfurt am Main — November 19, 2021 — The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) has published a study on behalf of the Finanzplatz München Initiative (fpmi) on the programmable euro, a blockchain-based euro that enables programmable payments. This study sets out how DLT-based payment systems and a programmable euro can…

Authors: Markus Kaulartz, Jonas Gross, Constantin Lichti, Philipp Sandner This article addresses the question in which manner a consortium using a collaborative blockchain can be organized legally. In this article, we distinguish between the (1) “contract solution” and the (2) “legal person solution”. Not only national but also cross-border collaborations…

Die Hamburg Commercial Bank AG (HCOB) und das Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) an der Frankfurt School of Finance and Management haben eine Studie zur Tokenisierung von Immobilien mittels Blockchain-Technologie veröffentlicht. Die Autoren analysieren in der Studie die Anbieter tokenisierter Immobilien weltweit und vergleichen Unternehmen und Transaktionen anhand objektiver Kriterien…