Geoffrey Goodell

• Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

These applications facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS, EBSI, and some ECB initiatives on the development of a digital euro.

Distributed ledger technology offers an opportunity to promote better management of data within public services, including for accounting and records management, as well as for electronic payments, particularly in the context of digital currencies, which represent an opportunity for central banks and financial regulators to provide a public payment mechanism that citizen-consumers can use independently of potentially exclusive custodial relationships.

• Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

DLT can facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS and EBSI.

Distributed ledger technology offers an opportunity to promote better management of data within public services, including for accounting and records management, as well as for electronic payments, particularly in the context of digital currencies, which represent an opportunity for central banks and financial regulators to provide a public payment mechanism that citizen-consumers can use independently of potentially exclusive custodial relationships.