Mapping the Global Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed Ledger Technologies

CIGI Papers No. 149 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; October 2017

Mapping the Global Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed Ledger Technologies Julie Maupin

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Mapping the Global Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed Ledger Technologies

Published on Oct 13, 2017Technology & Computing

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Blockchain, tangle and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are pushing a broad array of previously centralized global economic activities toward decentralized market structures. Governments should tackle the new regulatory conundrums of an increasingly disintermediated global economy by focusing on DLTs’ individual use cases rather than its underlying enabling technologies. Grouping the known use cases by common characteristics reveals three broad categories of blockchain-law interfaces. This paper labels these the recycle box, the dark box and the sandbox. Each raises distinct legal, regulatory and policy challenges deserving of separate analysis.

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