... infrastructure for recording and verifying economic exchanges (Prados-Castillo et al., 2022). Beyond cryptocurrency applications, blockchain underpins diverse processes, such as smart contracts, supply chain traceability and sustainability reporting, providing a foundation for automation, accountability...

... the relative positions of financial institutions and their inter-dependencies. Furthermore, implementing DTDs could also provide a testing and debugging environment before actually attaching legal value to future full-fledged digital contracts (smart contracts) executed on a shared ledger where reporting...