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<jats:p>While in the last decade, competition law authorities have mainly been concerned with platform businesses, a new technology – the Blockchain – should now attract the attention of regulators. Even though some aspects of said technology have been covered with different legal frameworks in Switzerland and the European Union, this has not been the case with competition law. The article addresses this gap and aims to provide a method for defining markets in the context of the blockchain technology. Furthermore, the analysis sheds light on the determination of market power as the special blockchain infrastructure has proven to cause new problems.</jats:p>