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By Frank ROESSIG, FinTech Lead, Proximus Luxembourg
In the early 90s the Cyberpunk movement has been striving to evolve the internet of information to the internet of value. Indeed, the capacity to freely publish and share information could be emulated to also transfer values, meaning assets, directly between parties without going through a centralizing agent. This is often named distributed asset transactions. This exploration has led to many failed attempts but also some successes in the digital payment space. The advent of blockchain technology has boosted the utilization of crypto-currencies and thereby also revived many initiatives in the fields of distributed asset transactions. While many names are given to assets founded on this technology, like blockchain, DLT...
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