The US regulators have recently gone to the mattresses against Coinbase, Paxos, Binance, staking, and stablecoins (…) and issued a number of enforcement. Let’s unpack it, shall we? Why do the US regulators have an issue with staking activities? Staking activities and “staking” or “earn” programs could mean many different activities. Read more…
In this episode, I share my analysis of why US regulators have recently gone on a crusade of enforcement in the crypto space, using Kraken, Paxos, and Binance as prime examples to highlight the issues that are being experienced by FinTech organizations currently. If you found value in this episode, Read more…
First of all, let’s agree that the term “stablecoin” has been applied extremely loosely and liberally, in a truly decentralized fashion 😉 and I have personally seen it referring to single-currency or multi-currency pegged digital assets, to tokenized gold and diamonds products, to hybrid digital products with embedded algorithmic price Read more…
Yes, you heard it right – next week on February 21st, 2023, I am offering a brand new one-of-its-kind 90 min workshop on the End-to-End Scope of Crypto Compliance and following the recent SEC actions against Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, #busd, #stablecoins, and #staking in general, I have just added Read more…
First of all, let’s agree that the term “stablecoin” has been applied extremely loosely and liberally, in a truly decentralized fashion 😉 and I have personally seen it referring to single-currency or multi-currency pegged digital assets, to tokenized gold and diamonds products, to hybrid digital products with embedded algorithmic price Read more…
What’s on the horizon for FinTech and Crypto in 2022? In today’s episode, I wanted to discuss the trends I see coming in the FinTech space for 2022. Obviously, things may change with this forecast, but this is why we love crypto and FinTech so much. Join me as I Read more…
Here is a short (comparing to the original 200+ pages) summary of the future EU Regulation on how EU-wide crypto licenses and issuance of crypto assets may look like. Key EU policy priorities: Expressed clear preference for harmonizing local counties domestic crypto licensing regimes to make them unified and passportable; Read more…
This is a short and sweet episode about the reasons that the vast majority of retail public investors want to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and the tokens that you should and shouldn’t consider offering to your customers if you are a fiat-focused fintech looking to branch out into the crypto Read more…
For those who don’t know, DeFi is a set of technical solutions that do not have an identifiable person or body behind the service. Today’s episode was triggered by an announcement made by Shapeshift about their intention to completely decentralize their company and go all-in with DeFi because they felt Read more…
Do you think that Stablecoins are E-money? Listen as Yana discusses what E-money and Stablecoins are and how they are used. Yana explains how most stablecoins do not meet the requirements to be called E-money and the difference between issuing E-money versus using and accepting E-money. Yana is hoping this Read more…