This is Charles Brett’s start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ 2022-Week 43. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be comprehensive but does seek to highlight ‘Quick Takes’ on specific developments as well interesting pieces to read, a listing of some (not all) announcements/press releases and pointers to upcoming events.
Quick Take(s) – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 43
Interpol says metaverse opens up a new world of cybercrime
Interpol’s member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol’s executive director for technology and innovation, told Reuters. This could include:
- existing crimes, but taking them to new levels
- child, and people, safety
- virtual realities which facilitate crimes like terror attacks.
Quick Take: Meta may be investing a fortune into its Metaverse. But that does not mean it will be any ‘safer’ than Facebook or Instagram or Whatsapp. Combining a metaverse with blockchain could yet become a horror, for both authorities and citizens.
7 pieces to read – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 43
- Using blockchain to grow your start-up
- 5 ways banks can use blockchain to improve ESG efforts
- Google Cloud gets into web3 act with managed blockchain node service
- BNY Mellon, and others object to caps for EU DLT pilot regime for tokenized securities
- Can a new form of cryptography solve the internet’s privacy problem?
- Five of the worst ETF first-year performances are crypto-related (behind FT paywall)
- Blockchain is revolutionising the gaming industry (video).
Selected announcements/press releases/opinions – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 43
- Blockchain – a disruptive innovation in FinTech (opinion)
- Blockchain will play a pivotal role in countering cyberattacks (opinion)
- World Bank backs blockchain project to harmonize carbon registry data
- Blockchain.com Visa card, powered by Marqeta, debuts with 50,000 sign-ups at launch (announcement)
- Global blockchain technology in Healthcare Market Report 2022 (announcement/report).
Selected events
- LA Blockchain Summit 2022 (1st-3rd November, 2022)
- Crypto and Digital Assets Summit – Winter Edition (28th November, 2022)
- Bitcoin Conference (18th-20th May, 2023).
