Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Blockchain and its underlying distributed ledger technology have the potential to fundamentally transform a wide range of industries and markets. The OECD is exploring the benefits and risks of blockchain for economies and societies, beginning to identify good policy and regulatory approaches, and investigating uses in specific policy areas.
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The third OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum is taking place in Paris on 30 September to 1 October 2020.
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Blockchain policy forum
1,600 participants, 200 speakers, 50 sessions > The 2nd OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum on 12-13 September 2019 explored the policy environment for blockchain innovation and adoption
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Understanding blockchain
The OECD Blockchain Primer provides a short introduction to blockchain technology, outlines some of the potential benefits it can bring and considers the risks and challenges it poses.
Blockchain Policy Centre
The OECD Blockchain Policy Centre provides a global reference point for helping policy makers to address the challenges raised by blockchain and DLT and to seize the opportunities it offers for achieving policy objectives.
OECD forms a high-level expert group on blockchain
Resources
- ICOs for SME financing
- Blockchain and competition policy
- Blockchain technologies as a digital enabler for sustainable infrastructure
- Cryptoassets in Asia: Consumer attitudes, behaviours and experiences
- Is there a role for blockchain in sustainable supply chains?
- The potential for blockchain in public equity markets in Asia
- The potential for blockchain in corporate governance
- The tokenisation of assets and potential implications for financial markets
- Digital financial assets
- Blockchain technology and its use in the public sector
- Blockchain and beyond: Encoding 21st century transport
- The OECD Going Digital project