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This report helps readers navigate the burgeoning enterprise blockchain landscape, offering insight into enterprises’ distinct motivations, needs, and challenges. Key developments among leading projects are concisely summarized and project groupings are analyzed so to clarify notable differences in blockchain types. The report ends with additional commentary from major enterprise thought leaders.

Announcing the fifth Deep Dive Report from Smith + Crown. In-depth information and analysis on significant crypto projects and their associated assets, continuing with the Lightning Network.

Announcing the next Deep Dive from Smith + Crown. In-depth information and analysis on significant crypto projects and their associated assets, continuing with Grin & MimbleWimble.

This memo on blockchain technology provides a technical overview of the most popular blockchain platforms by exploring their core components and examining how they interact.

This article introduces key concepts in cryptoeconomic design, which will be expanded upon in an upcoming series distilling insights garnered from S+C’s practice designing incentive systems.

This article is the second in a series that seeks to provide readers with the resources necessary to evaluate a number of prominent cryptofinancial valuation techniques.

This article provides a broad overview of the range of developments comprising the core of the security token infrastructure space, discussing the security token issuance protocols, overall trading ecosystem, trade settlement and token custody aspects of the security token universe while examining the technical and compliance-related aspects of each of these features.

Announcing the next Deep Dive Report from Smith + Crown. In-depth information and analysis on significant crypto projects and their associated assets, continuing with Decred.

While the digestion of gains made throughout 2017 has been amongst the most widely recognized theme of 2018, virtually every aspect of the cryptoasset space saw ongoing development, considerable amounts of which were supported by equity sales and venture capital funding. This suggests that a range of actors—from start-ups, to name brands, long-established companies, investment firms, and even governments—remain committed to erecting the infrastructure for a larger, farther-reaching, and more impactful cryptoasset ecosystem.

The first in a series of research memos and commentaries exploring the contexts, structures, possibilities, and limitations of security tokens.