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Conor Svensson

Web3 Labs founder, web3j author, Enterprise Ethereum Standards Chair

    Backdoor CBDCs

    When is a CBDC not a CBDC? When it’s a backdoor CBDC according to a number of leading banks. Banks...

    Is Web3 still all about the Tokenization of Everything?

    This week's post marks a big milestone — it's now been 12 months since I embarked on writing my...

    The Future of Blockchain Governance

    At the end of last year, Ledger Insights highlighted a blog post by the Bank of England on how...

    Disintermediation

    The major innovation bitcoin provided was the elimination of intermediaries in financial...

    2022 in Review

    If 2021 was characterised as the year of crypto and NFTs, 2022 is the year where the mainstream...

    J.P. Morgan's long-term bet on Blockchain (Quorum, Onyx Digital Assets and Project Guardian)

    For many, the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies have had too significant a bearing on their...

    The Winter of Discontent

    The past few weeks have seen the plug (not rug) pulled on a few well-known DLT initiatives — the...

    Trust Anchors

    Many advocates of DeFi (decentralized finance)received a wake-up call last week when the leading...

    The Future

    The fallout from SBF and FTX continues, with Digital Currency Group owner of Coindesk, Genesis and...

    Dollar Dependencies: Stablecoins do not equal economic freedom

    In the recent Bankless debate between SBF (just one week before the FTX collapse) and Erik Voorhees...

    FTX Fallout

    10 days ago you could not have imagined the events that just played out in crypto. With Sam...

    decentralized Financial Market Infrastructure

    Our global financial market infrastructure (FMI) is underpinned by a number of systems that are the...