Who is Mr. H2? Or expanding the view on hydrogen economy

Abstract

The development of the global hydrogen industry as part of the new energy industry is largely constrained by low efficiency of hydrogen conversion and synthesis and the high end-to-end cash cost of the feedstock. Similar problems, as well as problems of transportation, are experienced by world trade. A new method that can increase the investment attractiveness of high-risk hydrogen production projects is the use of tokenization technologies based on digital financial assets (DFA) or security/utility tokens, as they are called in traditional English practice. Tokens are issued on a popular blockchain (for example, Ethereum) and are an independent settlement and guarantee tool, to which a smart contract (possibly staged) is linked, including a certain type of contract, and the parameters of a unique key token. There are pilot tokenization projects in traditional industries, such as mining - these are complex tools for fundraising (raising funds) and settlements between the participants in the transaction. The article discusses various options for using DFA to stimulate the development of the hydrogen sphere in order to reduce the burden on states as a regulator, incl. Through attraction of public investments, as well as the use of DFA to automate the goods and transport work in the future mass hydrogen market and the prospects for building an adequate regulatory environment for this tool.