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Global Blockchain Policy Forum

The 4th edition of the annual OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum delves into recent developments and emerging challenges to take a balanced assessment of blockchain’s use and potential in supporting global markets and the rules and norms that underpin them. From strengthening cross-border commerce and international regulatory cooperation, to better linking companies with investors, and bringing new levels of transparency to the digital economy and control over our lives online. As in previous years, the Forum provides a platform for the public and private sectors to come together to exchange information, perspectives and priorities across the many areas where blockchain and public policy connect.
This year's edition of the OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum attracted:

2100+

Participants

140+

Countries

60+

High-Level Speakers

2021 Speakers

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Emmanuelle Ganne

WTO
Senior Analyst and...
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The OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum in the Media

Lawrence Wintermeyer

Will The Revolution Be Tokenized: Governments, Blockchain, And The Digital Space Race

In 2015 The Economist magazine hailed blockchain as “the trust machine”, capable of replacing governance structures, displacing institutions, and bringing a new level of transparency to transactions and information, with implications across public life. In the years since, the technology has produced trillion-dollar decentralized financial ...
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The OECD

The OECD is a forum in which governments compare and exchange policy experiences, identify good practices in light of emerging challenges, and promote decisions and recommendations to produce better policies for better lives. The OECD’s mission is to promote policies that improve economic and social well-being of people around the world.

Blockchain

Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies have the potential to fundamentally transform a wide range of industries and markets. The Global Blockchain Policy Centre is exploring the benefits and risks of blockchain for economies and societies, beginning to identify good policy and regulatory approaches, and investigating uses in specific policy areas.

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