Regulation

The Digital Assets Regulations Institute (DARI), born from VAIOT and KuCoin Labs, is a focused initiative aimed at fostering collaboration between financial institutions and governments with the cryptocurrency industry. By facilitating dialogue between these stakeholders, DARI can contribute to the creation of regulatory frameworks that strike a healthy balance between…

The Wild West of Crypto is Here — Hey Peeps! On March 29th, the Chair of the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, testified at a budget hearing for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. When Gensler was asked, by Congressman Sanford Bishop, if the SEC planned on issuing clarification regarding digital assets, he responded that…

As a social media user and American citizen, I am deeply concerned about the recent talks of banning Tiktok in the United States. …

Countries across the Latin American region have been affected by severe devaluation of their local currencies, coupled with high inflation rates. …

Why fungible crypto assets are not securities The speakers at one of our Owl Explains Hootenannys are co-authors of the most thorough analysis to date of the burning question of whether fungible crypto assets are — or are not — securities. (Spoiler alert — mostly they are not.) Lewis Cohen, Freeman Lewin and Sarah Chen from DLX…

A couple of weeks ago, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed, marking the biggest American bank failure since the 2008 crisis. The comparison with the crisis of fifteen years ago is interesting. One of the fundamental causes of SVB’s bankruptcy was its significant position in US Treasury debt securities. Yes…

There has been ubiquitous talk about risk in the markets. But of course, risk is not just one thing, and in this rapidly changing market, our very assumptions about what risk is and what risk is not, is being challenged. In 2008, the biggest risks were liquidity and contagion. In…

Following the release of our roadmap, we have received overwhelming positive feedback from the community. While some may consider our ambitions to be lofty, we firmly believe in the importance of setting a North Star to create a shared vision and proactively develop strategies to overcome the incredible challenges ahead…