Fred Steinmetz

Co-founder

Fred Steinmetz is a co-founder of the Blockchain Research Lab and currently focuses on researching “Crypto Adoption”. The relevance of the phenomenon of cryptocurrencies, token-based services and blockchain technology is increasing, not only in our economy but also in society as a whole. With a focus on consumer adoption, the questions worth investigating comprise users’ ideological motivations, their socio-economic characteristics and usage intentions beyond speculation.

Following his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from RWTH Aachen and University of Cologne, he graduated from Universität Hamburg (M.Sc.) where he currently prepares his dissertation on the convergence of gaming and gambling as well as the intersections of gambling and blockchain technology. At Universität Hamburg, Fred is currently employed working for the BMWi-funded research project ETIBLOGG, for which he investigates the potentials of blockchain technology for efficiently transforming energy markets towards the integration of renewables. With a focus on token-based funding for ventures, Fred co-founded badgeport.io, a platform for evaluating and comparing third-party marketing and technical services for startups.

Beyond cryptocurrencies, Fred’s research interests are to find in non-token applications of the technology across industries and domains, i.e. digital identity, and the innovative use of blockchains, i.e. for data anchoring and submission.

Research topics:

• Crypto Adoption
• Market economics and efficiency (project lead)
• Gaming and Gambling
• Literature and Bibliometrics
• Energy Markets