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 Global Blockchain Policy Centre 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.
Blockchain webinars
Blockchain policy forum
1,600 participants, 200 speakers, 50 sessions
The OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum explores the policy environment for blockchain innovation and adoption
Save the date! 16-20 November 2020
Blockchain policy series
New digital technologies to tackle trade in illegal pesticides
Can blockchain technology reduce the cost of remittances?
Blockchain for SMEs and entrepreneurs in Israel
The tokenisation of assets and potential implications for financial markets
The policy environment for blockchain innovation and adoption
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.
Other resources
- Blockchain and beyond: Encoding 21st century transport
- Blockchain and competition policy
- Blockchain technologies as a digital enabler for sustainable infrastructure
- Blockchain technology and its use in the public sector
- Cryptoassets in Asia: Consumer attitudes, behaviours and experiences
- ICOs for SME financing
- 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
- 2018 workshop on digital financial assets
- OECD blockchain primer
- OECD going digital project