Wharton BDAP’s director Kevin Werbach and research fellow Bianca Kremer published an article in the Competition Policy International TechREG Chronicle, February 2022 issue. Abstract: Digital assets add complexity to an already complex global financial system....
On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry invited witnesses to a hearing on Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation organized in two panels. During the first panel, the Honorable...
New Wharton BDAP report “Back to the Future – The Sixth Reg@Tech Roundtable on Digital Assets” has been released. Reg@Tech is a biannual series on the regulation of digital assets from a multi-jurisdictional perspective. Reg@Tech 6 was held via Zoom...
Wharton Professor and BDAP Director Kevin Werbach testified in a hearing on the topic of Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government before the U. S. Congress Joint Economic Committee held on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Other witnesses included...
Extract: Prices on cryptocurrency platforms Bitcoin and Ether have been volatile in recent weeks after China’s central bank recently stated that all cryptocurrency-related activities were illegal. That is widely seen as the county’s effort to curb currency...
Extract: Decentralized Finance — or DeFi — has experienced explosive growth in the past year. But in order for DeFi to fulfill its promise as a disintermediated ecosystem that helps rather than harms, “now is the time to evaluate its benefits and dangers,” write...
