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Welcome to this weeks' edition of Digital Bytes where we have analysis on the following topics: Blockchain and digital assets are effectively helping to develop the insurance industry - whilst Blockchain technology is still in its infancy, there are already a number of promising use-cases that drive efficiency, security and cost reduction across the insurance industry. Though still...

Welcome to this weeks' edition of Digital Bytes. This is our fourth anniversary as we first published Digital Bytes back in March 2018 and have continued to do so each week. As well as being sent to a wide range of readers in Europe, South and North America, Africa, India, Digital Bytes is translated into Chinese and sent via WeChat to many Asian countries including China. This week we h...

Welcome to this week's edition of Digital Bytes which has analysis on the following topics: Are NFTs crypto assets? If so, why does it matter? - the boom in NFTs is keeping many consulting firms, lawyers and accountants busy as we see owners of IP almost falling over themselves to launch their latest NFTs. However, what would happen if regulators were to decide that NFTs are indeed crypt...

How DeFi could challenge the ETF sector  – The ETF sector is expanding as more mutual funds convert into ETFs. Recently, we have seen the launch the Hashdex DeFi Index ETF which it is the first regulated ETF to invest in DeFi investment tokens. ETFs were designed to group correlated assets together and DeFi can take this one step further and challenge the composability of these...

Welcome to this week's edition of Digital Bytes which includes the following: DeFi Yield Protocol: the massive boost yield farmers and the DeFi space need - over the years, there has been a steady growth of the blockchain space and, most notably, decentralized finance. Although DeFi isn’t new, the growth has been more aggressive since 2020 than it previously was. The introduction of yield farming...

Welcome to this week's Digital Bytes where we cover the following articles: Are we to see two versions of digital intellectual property - an NFT and a DDC? - as the Year of the Tiger roars in, it could be a big year for blockchain and Digital Assets in China. With China launching its digital Yuan (CBDC) and announcing that it is to officially back a new breed of NFT-style digital assets (called DD...

Welcome to this week's Digital Bytes which has analysis on the following topics: How many more countries will make Bitcoin legal tender? - El Salvador has recently made Bitcoin legal tender and claims that 70% of its citizens who were previously unbanked now have digital wallets, thus making more people in the country financially included. In just 45 days this is a massive achievement, but wi...

Welcome to this week's edition of Digital Bytes which includes the following articles: DAOs: a new-fangled term to bamboozle novices into parting with their cash, but what role can they really serve? - in the crypto sector, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) have only been around since 2015 but their DNA arguably harks back much further as groups of people collate and then mutually bene...

NFTs in the media: from films to the TV - NFTs are being used in the film and media industry from Hollywood to Bollywood and even television manufacturers are making TVs with the ability to display NFTs. Whilst there are obvious ways to use NFTs to make money to finance film production, NFTs are also offering a way for the media industry at large to enter the metaverse. The metaverse, with the bac...

Welcome to the first edition of 2022 of Digital Bytes.  Our first week of 2022 features Takatoshi Shibayama from Copper Ltd. In the last couple of years we have seen a lot of investment in the infrastructure that was needed in order for Blockchain technology and Digital Assets to be embraced by institutions and the wider community as a whole. Many proof of concepts by mult...