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.
The Global Blockchain Policy Forum is the leading international event focused on the policy implications of this technology and its applications
Find the 2020 webcast and forum materials
Opportunities and challenges of blockchain technologies in health care
The uncertain promise of blockchain for government
Antitrust and the trust machine
Blockchain for SMEs and entrepreneurs in Italy
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
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 high-level expert group on blockchain
Jean Michel Godeffroy talks to Consensys about central bank digital currencies
Heather Dahl on digital credentials and privacy in the time of COVID-19
Leanne Kemp looks at what it will take to solve the blockchain conundrum
Simon Chantry describes trends in central bank digital currencies in the interconnected future
Ran Zhao profiles the blockchain ecosystem in China
Leanne Kemp talks about how the OECD can release the power of blockchain