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Crypto 2022

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Introducing a week of content about how regulators are shaping the digital assets industry (or trying).

Crypto 2022

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Eva Kalli (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)
The View From Brussels: How the EU Plans to Regulate Crypto

European Parliament member Eva Kaili says Facebook’s libra announcement in 2019 catalyzed lawmakers into action on digital assets.

Eva Kalli (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)
"Crypto Dad" Chris Giancarlo Talks About the New Digitization of Value
The CFTC Was Proved Right on Bitcoin Futures. What’s Next for the Agency?

For years the commodities overseer was the de facto regulator of crypto markets.

"Crypto Dad" Chris Giancarlo Talks About the New Digitization of Value
(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)
DeFi Is Like Nothing Regulators Have Seen Before. How Should They Tackle It?

Without middlemen to deputize, the SEC and other regulators will have to rethink their approach to enforcement. A lot could go wrong.

(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)
Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash
Decentralization’s Challenge to Policymakers Is Coming

We are fast approaching a point where there will no longer be “decentralization theater” and things will get real.

Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash
(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Why a Bitcoin Futures ETF Is Bad for Investors

It takes more than derivatives to contango.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)
(Michael Discenza/Unsplash)

Kill the BitLicense

The state’s regulatory regime has been bad for New York and bad for crypto.

(Michael Discenza/Unsplash)
Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Put America’s Geeks to Work, Don’t Cage Them

If the U.S. wants to beat China and Russia in cyberspace, we’ll need help from our nerds – even those with criminal pasts, writes the mother of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht...

Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(Khashayar Kouchpeydeh/Unsplash)

Crypto Is Too Big for Partisan Politics

The industry enjoys broad support among the American people, and that should be reflected by our elected officials, too.

(Khashayar Kouchpeydeh/Unsplash)

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EUREKA, NV - JULY 8:  A group of wild horses is rounded up during a gathering July 8, 2005 in Eureka, Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to reduce herds in the American west, where an estimated 37,000 of the horses roam free, to 28,000 by the end of 2005. The U.S. periodically removes thousands of horses and donkeys in an attempt to ensure western rangelands have adequate food and water for the animals to survive. Those animals are either adopted out or housed indefinitely on government sanctuaries. Currently 24,000 horses and donkeys are housed in government-run facilities. Recently passed legislation allows for the sale for slaughter of wild horses and donkeys older than ten years old and animals that have been unsuccessfully offered for adoption at least three times, eliminating restrictions that had been in place since 1971 which prevented wild horses from being sold commercially.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Lassoing a Stallion: How Gary Gensler Could Approach DeFi Enforcement

The SEC may “pierce the veil” of “decentralization theater” by going after individuals involved in DeFi projects, observers say.

EUREKA, NV - JULY 8:  A group of wild horses is rounded up during a gathering July 8, 2005 in Eureka, Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to reduce herds in the American west, where an estimated 37,000 of the horses roam free, to 28,000 by the end of 2005. The U.S. periodically removes thousands of horses and donkeys in an attempt to ensure western rangelands have adequate food and water for the animals to survive. Those animals are either adopted out or housed indefinitely on government sanctuaries. Currently 24,000 horses and donkeys are housed in government-run facilities. Recently passed legislation allows for the sale for slaughter of wild horses and donkeys older than ten years old and animals that have been unsuccessfully offered for adoption at least three times, eliminating restrictions that had been in place since 1971 which prevented wild horses from being sold commercially.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Michael Shaulov, CEO of DeFi infrastructure firm Fireblocks (courtesy Fireblocks)
Gensler for a Day: Regulating DeFi With Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov

The key is getting decentralized identity right.

Michael Shaulov, CEO of DeFi infrastructure firm Fireblocks (courtesy Fireblocks)
(CoinDesk archives)
What Stablecoins Might Become

At issue is whether issuers of the digital assets will be regulated like banks.

(CoinDesk archives)
Rohan Grey, Willamette University College of Law
Gensler for a Day: How Rohan Grey Would Regulate Stablecoins

Stablecoins make use of the same shadow banking carveout that imperiled the financial system in 2008. That can’t continue, says the co-author of the Stablecoin Tethering and B...

Rohan Grey, Willamette University College of Law

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