Episode 10: The regulated Internet of Value

In this episode, Tony McLaughlin outlines a network on which different forms of money that we already know today can be transferred as tokens issued on distributed ledgers. These different monies are all “regulated liabilities” and include commercial bank money, electronic money, and central bank money. A network that tokenizes regulated liabilities on the same chain may deliver a next generation digital money format with the benefits of DLT but without the downsides of currently discussed digital money forms such as stablecoins or CBDCs. As DLT has the potential to represent multiple forms of digital value, we might go further and envision the creation of networks that tokenize regulated liabilities and regulated assets on the same chain. Such a network would be significantly different from today’s siloed financial architecture: It would embody all types of tokenized assets and money in an ‘always on’, programmable and global network — a regulated internet of value.

Om Podcasten

The DEA Podcast was brought to life by the Digital Euro Association and deals with digital money, specifically CBDCs and stablecoins with a focus on different forms of a digital euro. The Digital Euro Association, as the largest European Think Tank dealing with digital money, is dedicated to educating people on the tokenization of money. In addition to that, the DEA assists in solving the immense challenge of creating an innovative and open environment for digital tokenized money in the eurozone and its 19 member states. Through shared knowledge and collaboration of the DEA community members, with backgrounds in a wide range of industries, we strive to significantly contribute to the development of the digital euro. On the basis of this interdisciplinarity, it is possible to develop solutions jointly and, under consideration of all interests, to formulate the necessary requirements for politics and the financial sector. In this way, the DEA hopes to offer every citizen, entrepreneur, (central) banker, and politician a platform that helps to understand the enormous impact of the digitization of money on the economy and to define design principles of differing forms of a digital euro.