In December 2017, the Cardano Foundation announced that it had selected Long Finance’s Distributed Futures practice as its partner for a research programme into Smart Ledgers. Since then, Z/Yen has produced four reports and an infographic, plus six events for this programme of work.

This week we are looking forward to launching our fifth report “The Economic Impact of Smart Ledgers on World Trade” in two separate events, a Parliamentary Reception on Tuesday 17 April and a more detailed Presentation, with Q&A, on Thursday 19 April.

If you haven’t yet joined our ever-growing Distributed Futures family, have a look at what people have said about our events and publications:

• “I love the topics you present and I thank you for sharing your research with a wider audience. I am telling everyone in my professional circle about your good work!”
• “I enjoy Michael Mainelli’s enthusiasm for approaching interesting and sometimes controversial subjects... please don’t stop.”
• “While I am enthusiastic about telling my colleagues about the work that you do, it is only after they read the reports & publications that they understand why, as your publications are of an invariably high quality.”
• “Deep and pragmatic insight efficiently delivered in the short time available by a very credible and open-minded speaker. Top class.”
• “Amazing how the speaker portrayed such a complex topic comprehensibly and with such ease and elegance - I've never heard or seen a better presentation on that topic and overall! Thanks a lot!”

Rewarded by people’s trust and enthusiasm towards our work, we are now focusing on the upcoming reports “Pensions And Distributed Ledgers”, “Smart Ledger timestamping - Accuracy And Comparability”, and “Survey Of The Regulatory Landscape For Smart Ledgers”, as well as their corresponding events.

To get an idea of what else we have planned for the (distributed) future, take a look at our brochure.