This part focuses on digital currency and the various applications of the blockchain.1 Until now, the most important manifestation of blockchain technologies has been Bitcoin. What comes next? What are alternative applications of the underlying blockchain technology to financial services?
Most Bitcoin 2.0 applications are still at the emerging stage, but they promise to improve the architecture of transaction-based industries. The authors in this part envision several categories of blockchain technologies that will impact the financial industry: digital currencies, asset registries, application stacks, and asset-centric technologies.