With Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine, one reads more about initiatives to help the victims of the war (sources: CNN, Cointelegraph, New York Times). One of the initiatives is called UkraineDAO and recently successfully raised several million USD in donations via a crowdfunding concept. …

Driven by the economic crisis in 2007 and the resulting distrust of governments and banks, Bitcoin is one of many conceivable applications that the blockchain technology behind it enables. Cryptocurrencies are primarily traded on unregulated online exchanges and deviate significantly from the original intention as an independent means of payment…

Current crises such as the global Corona crisis (Sars-COV-19) can mean that citizens are increasingly looking for secure forms of investment to cope with crises as well as digital payment options to avoid contact with pathogens for payment transactions. One possibility for this can be digital currencies. …

The news in the blockchain and crypto scene is currently overflowing with regard to a new asset class: the so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs for short). Starting out as a small niche for crypto connoisseurs and blockchain enthusiasts, NFTs have grown into the mainstream. But what exactly are NFTs and what…

With the discovery and introduction of blockchain technology, new business model potentials arise, which are often related to so-called “smart contracts”. Translated, the term stands for smart contracts that can be executed without any human intervention. People are only needed for programming or “setting up” these smart contracts (cf. Fraunhofer…

In today’s modern times, every person still has a large number of different analogue proofs of their own identity. This is not only old-fashioned, but also uncertain and difficult to overlook. Together with blockchain technology, the concept of self-determined identity management has developed in recent years, which is also referred…