Despite the global health crisis, innovation in Blockchain & Distributed Ledger has not stopped. During 2020, platforms continued their evolution path, many companies started operational projects and institutions showed a strong interest. In Italy, a project involving almost all banks is operational (Spunta project). At the European level, the evolution of EBSI (European Blockchain Service Infrastructure), desired by the European Commission, continues and the regulatory framework on these issues is evolving (through the Digital Finance Package and in particular with the proposed regulation of Markets in Crypto-assets). Around the world, Central Banks are looking to this technology for the issuance of their own digital currencies and are beginning to study its potential and limitations, so as to be able to respond promptly to the initiatives of large private companies (such as that of the Diem Association, formerly known as Libra and promoted by Facebook). In the meantime, the ‘permissionless’ world is also growing again, with DeFi and cryptocurrencies increasingly entering the mainstream discussions and Ethereum already starting the process that will lead to the launch of its 2.0 version.

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