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A Primer on the Digitization Sector in DACS

Digitization refers to the transformation of publicly verifiable ownership, identity, and immutability enabled by blockchain technology. With the growth of the digital economy and crypto native ecosystems, participants increasingly need a way to express their digital identity to facilitate fast, verifiable and censorship-resistant transactions on the blockchain. Although Digitization is

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Understanding the Currency Sector in CoinDesk Indices DACS

1. Bitcoin (BTC) is the world’s first cryptocurrency, and the largest by market capitalization. Since launching in 2009, Bitcoin has revolutionized payments with its innovation in blockchain technology, creating a global, borderless, secure, censorship resistant, pseudonymous, permissionless and trustless medium of exchange. Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus mechanism makes the Bitcoin network

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CoinDesk Indices Announces New Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS)

While some early efforts exist to classify digital assets by their use cases, the complexity has rapidly grown, so a hierarchical structure is needed to help investors navigate digital assets at different granularity levels. DACS provides a non-ambiguous structure throughout its hierarchy – meaning each digital asset is only assigned

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