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Blockchain
for commodities
Trading opportunities in a digital age
September 2018
Cutting costs
Big Oil backs post-trade transformation
Wholesale approach
Europe tests peer-to-peer gas and power trading
Going local
Microgrids exploit prosumer potential
Fighting fraud
Digital ledgers trump paper trails
Keeping it real
Disruption is not guaranteed
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Add Insight
In a world where data is the new currency, you need the latest essential intelligence to make business decisions with conviction.
As blockchain enters a critical development phase, it’s clear the potential is huge. From peer-to-peer commodity trading,
to tackling fraud and cutting processing costs, blockchain is challenging established market models. But, to take advantage,
companies will have to tackle issues such as speed, scale, cost, privacy and liability to make using it
Blockchain for commodities Trading opportunitie
Add Insight In a world where data is the new cu
September 2018 Editor Siobhan Hall Contributors
Foreword
Blockchain can support this decentralization by e
Executive summary Blockchain is a distributed led
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How blockchain works
These authority nodes, or validators, are governe
Selected blockchain activity in
n global commodities trading
Cutting trade costs
How blockchain can add value Accessibility: Bloc
Wholesale P2P trading
While some participants say their interest in Ene
Exchanges still core
The partnership of EPEX SPOT and LO3 aims at plug
Prosumer power
across the entire electrical infrastructure using
Strategic Singapore
Strategic Singapore crowdfund prices of palm
Digital derivatives
Digital derivatives automating collateral req
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“ The potential of blo
Tackling trade fraud
trade financing, according to a 2017 International
Taking stock
Taking stock
Breaking the rules
Commission set up an observatory in February 2018
Keeping safe
Keeping safe adversaries is both expanding an
Reality check
But it also poses a significant threat to current
Glossary Artificial intelligence: Bitcoin: Block
Proof of work: Prosumer: Private, permissioned
Notes
Notes
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