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Werbach testifies before Joint Economic Committee
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...
DeFi Policy-Maker Toolkit released
In collaboration with the Wharton Blockchain and Digital Asset Project, the World Economic Forum released the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Policy-Maker Toolkit. Working groups made up of DeFi entrepreneurs, academics, legal practitioners, and experts in regulation...
Publications
Werbach, Contracts Ex Machina (with Nicolas Cornell, 67 Duke Law Journal 313, 2017)
Abstract Smart contracts are self-executing digital transactions using decentralized cryptographic mechanisms for enforcement. They were theorized more than twenty years ago, but the recent development of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies has rekindled excitement...