Smart Contracts Contractual agreements have for centuries formed the infrastructure to inter-organizational cooperation, automating the workings of such contracts could have massive implications for the formation of large networks of cooperation amongst disparate organizations One of the key technological innovations of blockchain 2.0 has been the development of what are called smart contracts. [...]

Distributed Ledgers A ledger is a book or other collection of financial accounts of a particular type which keep track of who owns what and what transactions of value have taken place The blockchain is like another layer to the Internet that enables secure, trusted records and transactions to take place peer-to-peer between [...]

Distributed Organization Blockchain is a key infrastructure that can enable the formation of distributed systems of social, economic and technological organization Blockchain technology enables new forms of networked distributed organizations, something that runs very much contrary to our existing organizational paradigm and that is what makes it difficult for us to understand. The [...]

Decentralized Web The decentralized web describes the next generation of the internet based upon distributed networks that harness the computing and storage capabilities of end-user The decentralized web, also called web 3.0 is a vision of the next generation internet as a peer to peer network built around blockchain technology, where users own [...]

Evolution of Blockchain The blockchain is an emerging technology that is currently developing very rapidly In the previous video we talked about the basic workings of the original blockchain concept, but over the past years it has been evolving fast, from the original Bitcoin protocol to the second generation Ethereum platform, to today [...]

Blockchain Technology Overview Blockchain differs from many other forms of technology in that it taps into the potential of distributed systems On its most basic level, the blockchain can be understood as a new kind of database, at least this is its original design. What is different about this database is that it [...]

Blockchain Overview Blockchain is a new class of information technology that combines cryptography and distributed computing to enable a secure and trusted distributed database suitable for the recording of any form of value On its most basic level, the blockchain is a new class of information technology that combines encryption methods with distributed [...]