To Regulate or Not Regulate? An Overview of Cryptographic Assets With Simultaneous Economic Properties
This use case article will study the economic properties of cryptographic assets that can simultaneously behave as capital assets, commodities, and a store of value; as well as showing how these particular assets can be identified using our newly launched API.
Into Ether with Ethereum Classic: The Store-of-Value Commodity to Power the Internet of Things
Throughout this paper, we will evaluate the investment opportunity presented by ETC using a similar framework to the one used for bitcoin in our previous study, Bitcoin & the Rise of Digital Gold.
Bitcoin: Ringing The Bell For A New Asset Class
ARK Invest and Coinbase explore the merit of bitcoin as the first of its kind in a new asset classâcryptocurrencyâdistinct from all other asset classes. Universally, we think traditional asset classes must meet the requirement of investability. However, traditional asset classes then differ in their politico-economic features, correlation of price movements, and risk reward profiles. In this paper, all four criteria are explored in the context of the major asset classes.
Consensus-as-a-service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned,distributed ledger systems
The purpose of this short report is to describe the divergence between âpermissionlessâ cryptocurrency systems (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Peercoin) and âpermissionedâ distributed ledger systems (such as Ripple, Hyperledger). Consequently, we will briefly explore some of the use-cases that distributed ledger systems could play, specifically in the financial services industry. This document assumes that the reader is already familiar with Bitcoin (the blockchain) and bitcoin (the commodity, currency or asset). If you are unfamiliar with these concepts, then some of the vocabulary, concepts and analogies may not make sense.
