Update of German Law Aspects of Crypto Assets

This article considers how EU and German civil and regulatory law approaches crypto assets as well as how those types of crypto assets are dealt with in an insolvency. Assets issued or transferred via distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain are known as crypto assets. DLT makes it possible for peers on a network, each of whom has a complete copy of the ledger, to concurrently view, verify and update transac.