Welcome to this week’s Digital Bytes. This week we have analysis on the following topics:

How blockchains are being used by asset managers - undoubtedly, the fund industry has seen massive growth in terms of the number of funds and total assets under management in the last decade. Despite this, fund houses still rely on long, complex chains of distribution which make building investor relationships and controlling distribution costs difficult. However, asset managers are beginning to understand the transformative potential of both distributive ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain technology which enable digitisation/tokenisation of funds, shares, debt instruments, etc, whereby reducing inefficiencies in fund distribution and offering greater transparency for regulators.

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Cryptos: how to obtain exposure - in the last few weeks, the price of many crypto currencies has risen considerably and we have had a number of readers asking whether now is the time to increase their own exposure. There are a multitude of ways to gain exposure to this asset class apart from simply buying Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. For example, there are equities, mutual funds, VC funds, ETFs and hedge funds and, with the ever-growing choice, this is enabling a cross section of investors to obtain access to this asset class.

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The future of NFTs - There is no way anyone missed out on the hype around NFTs in the last three years. Two years down the line, hype in the sector has collapsed, causing critics of the space to deride and question the longevity of NFTs. The real questions are whether NFTs have a future, and if yes, where does the future of NFTs lie, purely for speculative purposes or something more?

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The New Model (Digital Asset) Economy with Inflation Resistant Money… Coming to a City Near You!- The precursors for our current high inflation, debt based, economy and highlights the upcoming deployment of new DeFi based platforms and infrastructure for the creation and use of ‘inflation resistant’ money. The new open and permissionless platforms have no custodial functions and have been designed to enable the global marketplace access to highly liquid, small, enumerated, legal titles of real estate (property) inside of distributed regulated exchanges and global payment systems.The ‘New Model Economy’ design and thinking is a bold and globally significant step towards an asset-based economy that is designed to create a low debt / low inflation economic system with trusted and stable, intrinsic value, ‘real’ money. The design offers many potential advantages to both the global retail consumers to protect their wealth, to property owners seeking liquidity, and to central banks and governments seeking to safely manage their national economies in a high inflation / high debt economic cycle.The New Model Economy design and thinking, that has been carefully assembled over many years, offers some very tantalising global solutions to all of us.

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