John Park, Head of Korea at the Arbitrum Foundation, provides an overview of the current crypto, CBDCs, and stablecoins landscape in Korea and Asia, including use cases and how traditional financial players will adapt to this evolving landscape.

‘The heroes of history were not classicists and library rats, those people who live vicariously in their texts. They were people of deeds and had to be endowed with the spirit of risk taking’, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, a 2018 nonfiction book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, shares his insights on the evolving US crypto regulatory landscape and its implications for consumers, banks, PSPs, and merchants.

Steve Aquino, Head of Legal at Mesh, shares more about what the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation is, how it compares with existing and proposed US regulations, and its implications for the payments industry.

Douwe Lycklama, Mounaim Cortet, and Jelmer Koster from INNOPAY, an Oliver Wyman business, explore stablecoins, deposit tokens, and CBDCs, outlining their characteristics and highlighting early implications for players across the payments value chain.

How can businesses adopt crypto? Eric Barbier, CEO of Triple-A, provides a hands-on guide for integrating digital currencies into payment systems.

Mirela Ciobanu, Lead Editor at The Paypers, explores real-world stablecoin initiatives, including Project Mariana and Warwick research, to illustrate their operational potential and impact on financial transactions. 

As finance evolves, Neira Jones clarifies TradFi, CeFi, CeDeFi, and DeFi, helping users understand new ways to engage with digital economies.