Building liberty into the Internet of Value

Fraud and frenzy have frequently accompanied technological transformations. What matters is building a system that reflects the values of free enterprise, trade and economic expression.

Today’s global financial system is being challenged by new, dual-nature digital network technologies — bringing speculative frenzy alongside speed, efficiency and inclusion.

Over the next decade, tokenization, distributed ledger technology and artificial intelligence will transform the venerable architecture of finance, banking and money itself. Like similar technological transformations, this one will be accompanied by widespread fraud, manipulation and speculative booms and busts. But that won’t mean the crypto naysayers have been right all along; market chaos has accompanied many technological revolutions. However rocky the road ahead may be, it will not halt the underlying innovations from delivering broad economic and social change.

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  • J. Christopher Giancarlo is senior counsel at the New York-based international law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, as well as chairman and co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project. He previously served as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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