Andrew Gillick

A retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) would be a digital and universally accessible form of money issued by central banks. Objectives= anticipate the disappearance of cash, create efficient means of payment, and strengthen regulatory controls. Some central banks are testing blockchain/DLT frameworks while others use traditional software. The future CBDC solutions would probably combine design principles of traditional distributed systems with some of the design principles of blockchains and digital “wallets” to store cryptographic keys. It’s finally about creating new protocols with the infrastructure to enable the transfer of digital value.

In a world going to negative interest rates and no cash many traditional safe havens are turned on their head. From billionaires buying farms and building bunkers in New Zealand to investing in fresh water, this report with Valiendero Digital Assets explores the new paradigm of value. Rather than make price predictions for either bitcoin or gold, this report explores what the function, rather than the form, of a 21st century safe haven should be.

BNC Research's latest proprietary report on carbon credit trading demonstrates the digitizing of real-world value in the new economy. This report showcases a world-first use case of digitizing carbon credits, aimed at both investors and policymakers.

Last year, the Federal Reserve surpassed its debt ceiling and dislocations in the US money markets shed a light on a structural shift in the global banking system. Over the same period, decentralized finance (DeFi) has evolved to ‘version 2.0’ with MakerDAO upgrading to a multi-collateralized model and further cementing itself as the ‘DeFi Fed’. Is Maker actually doing things differently and can it provide a viable alternative credit system? 

This year the UN faces a funding crisis as the post-Bretton Woods governance system reaches its limits in the digital globalized economy, leaving a gap on the direction of globalization. Digital currencies are the globalization of money and corporations are starting to put their weight behind blockchain consortia

As the ‘world computer’ Ethereum can’t afford to miss the massive opportunity in enterprise but it appears the ship may be leaving port without it. Part 1 of 2 assessing a big year for blockchain in enterprise.

This report looks at the future constraints for the shareholder model in its current form, and why decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) will be superior to today’s corporate firm structure. For investors, DAOs will eventually become a less risky investment class compared to shares in a regular company, offering more predictable ROI and better passive returns than most stock dividends - while also minimizing two of the greatest risks in corporate operations - human error and executive self-interest.

A guide to the landscape of digital value in an era of public, private, national and corporate currencies - with featured strategies for investing in digital privacy and scarcity as a hedge against negative interest rates and Modern Monetary Theory.

A comprehensive new report from Techemy Capital lifts the lid on participants in the current stablecoin ecosystem, identifying winning and losing business models, exploring underwriting options far beyond ‘cash in the bank’ and predicts the likely stablecoin market evolution through to 2022

A new BNC Research report into the degradation of information and the rise of fake news identifies it as both a growing macro trend – and also an important investment opportunity in Web 3.0’s new decentralized media model.