1 February 2022TrademarksSukanya Majumdar

The challenges of cryptocurrency, NFTs, and smart contracts on litigation

The central concept was decentralisation, users transacting with each other without the need for an intermediary such as a bank or agent. This was possible only through the uniqueness of keys used to operate each transaction and the public nature of the chain.

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