Crypto-assets: Crossing the chasm?

Glen Fernandes and Walter Verbeke
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Journal of Securities Operations & Custody, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 292-302

Abstract: The challenge crypto-assets face for an effective breakthrough is this: How can an infrastructural safe and efficient environment be put in place whereby the broader investor community feels sufficiently comfortable, in a similar manner to other more traditional asset classes such as equities, exchange-traded funds and bonds? Remarkably, the novelty of crypto-assets lies in the distributed nature of the blockchain-based networks they use rather than their investment characteristics, many of which they share many with traditional financial assets. Central securities depositories (CSDs) as infrastructures of the financial markets — and rightfully so — have them on their radar screen.

Keywords: token; cryptocurrency; Blockchain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 K22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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