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5 Steps to Sign and activate a Smart Legal Contract

on October 8, 2021

Contracts are fundamental for all transactions in the business world. But the recent market turmoil has highlighted the importance of digitalization of processes and adequate risk management.

In “conventional”, physical legal contracts, parties usually sign them with a handwritten/electronic/digital signature, depending on the form of the contract.

But as far as legal smart contracts go, how do parties sign and validate them? How can part B show its consent in adhering to part A’s smart contract? Are private and public keys used here?

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Digitisation of EIB bonds on Ethereum Blockchain

on July 13, 2021

A few months ago, the EIB launched a digital bond issuance on Ethereum, deploying this distributed ledger technology for the registration and settlement of digital bonds, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs, Santander and Societe Generale.  

Let’s see what this means for finance.

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Decentralization over blockchain infrastructures: the property-contract interface

on July 13, 2021

Decentralization over blockchain infrastructures is a fundamental aspect in the adoption of the technology and is the main reason why it has acquired increasing importance in the last decade. The technology emerged to implement peer to peer transactions of digital money that could displace commercial banks’ gatekeeping of digital transactions of bank deposits and central banks’ monopoly over the value (and therefore supply) of fiat money. And it has gone a long way since then.

Reading time: 10 minutes. Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash.

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