“…8. The emerging technologies, such as blockchain, cryptocurrency and big data, are widely applied in the various fields of the financial industry (Corbet et al , 2020a, 2022c). Cryptocurrency, in its various forms, has presented several avenues of influence, presenting significant benefits in the areas of cross-border financial transfers, portfolio diversification (Katsiampa et al , 2019a, 2019b; Corbet and Katsiampa, 2020) and a digital store of value (as per the work of Nguyen et al , 2020; Leung and Nguyen, 2019; Corbet et al , 2020b, 2020c, 2021). However, it has simultaneously been attributed to substantial growth in market abnormalities, both ethically flawed and illicit behaviour, and broad regulatory ambiguity (as per Akyildirim et al , 2020a, 2020b and Corbet et al , 2020d, 2020e).…”