We are at Devcon2 in Shanghai this week, where research director Peter Van Valkenburgh gave a talk on how securities regulators look at decentralized tokens and what developers should think about before issuing them.
Greetings from Shanghai and the Ethereum Foundation's Devcon2. Monday morning local time I presented a talk on Regulatory Considerations for Dapp (Decentralized Applicaiton) Development. It was the first non-panel talk...
Such a charter is something we’ve been advocating for some time. In a speech on Tuesday, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry didn’t say let on what the OCC...
The bipartisan H. Res. 835 will be before Congress today. Coin Center applauds its forward-thinking leadership in encouraging the development of open blockchain networks and ensuring the United States' long term competitiveness in FinTech.
The bipartisan H. Res. 835, which was introduced in July by Rep. Adam Kinzinger and co-sponsored by Rep. Tony Cardenas, will be before the House today. Coin Center supports this...
Our executive director Jerry Brito, along with advisory board members Marc Andreessen and Fred Wilson all made the list as the “money men of the future.” The POLITICO 50 list...
We applaud House Resolution 835 for forward-thinking leadership in encouraging the development of open digital currency networks and other financial technologies.
The three-panel event focused on cybersecurity issues, including how to protect oneself from infection and what to do if your data is encrypted. Coin Center was there and we were...
Folks in Congress often ask us what they can do to ensure the continued flourishing of open blockchain networks. Typically we tell them that what we need are clear statements...
The European Securities and Markets Authority concluded as much in a recent discussion paper. We responded by quickly filing a comment that explains the benefits of open blockchains and reminds ESMA that there is nothing inherently unsuitable about these technologies for financial markets applications.
That was one of the conclusions of the European Securities and Markets Authority in a discussion paper on its Consultation on the Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets on...
Our research director Peter Van Valkenburgh was invited by the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force to discuss some of the many positive use cases for open, permissionless, blockchain networks that are uniquely enabled by this technology.
Last week I spoke at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force's Digital Currency Symposium in Orlando. The NCIJTF is a multi-agency task force whose members include the FBI, NSA,...
Our comments on ESMA’s conclusion that “open” or “permissionless” blockchains may be inappropriate for financial services in its discussion paper entitled, “The Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets.”