To remain competitive, companies find themselves increasing
their efforts to digitally transform their businesses by developing
new offerings based on emerging technologies and integrating these
technologies into existing product and service offerings.
This is our first monthly bulletin for 2020, aiming to help
companies identify important and significant legal developments
governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart
contracts and digital assets. In this issue, we also feature a
spotlight on Asia Pacific developments.
While the use cases for blockchain technology are vast, from
copyright protection to voting, most of the current adoption is in
the financial services section and the focus of this bulletin will
be primarily on the use of blockchain and or smart contracts in
that sector. With respect to digital assets, we have organized our
approach to this topic by discussing it in terms of traditional
asset type or function (although the types
