The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:01:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Recent Cases Demonstrate Need for Blockchain https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/08/08/recent-cases-demonstrate-need-for-blockchain/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/08/08/recent-cases-demonstrate-need-for-blockchain/#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:02:01 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=100546?d=20170808090201EDT Posted by Stephen Fox, Goodwin Procter LLP, on Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Editor's Note: Stephen Fox is an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP. This post is based on a Goodwin Procter publication by Mr. Fox, and is part of the Delaware law series; links to other posts in the series are available here.

A recent Delaware bill is poised to allow private Delaware corporations “use networks of electronic databases (examples of which are described currently as “distributed ledgers” or a “blockchain”) for the creation and maintenance of corporate records, including the corporation’s stock ledger.” The bill is a significant step towards the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, which has the potential to solve problems that legacy technologies could not previously solve.

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