The Blockchain Bundesverband, an association for the promotion of blockchain technology in Germany, has announced a new think tank for token regulation. “thinkBLOCKtank” will release a joint paper supported by various European countries entitled EU Token Regulation as the group seeks to drive the regulatory status of token offerings. A public event has been scheduled to take place in Luxembourg on November 28th to present the token regulation document.
The blockchain think tank, a Luxembourg based non-profit organization, says it will bring leading professionals, lawyers and academics from European countries together. The group aims to provide high quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis on a full range of issues concerning Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) / blockchain, cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets.
The soon to be released paper builds on an earlier paper issued by the Finance Working Group of Blockchain Bundesverband, the German Blockchain association, in February 2018.
The “EU Token Regulation Paper” is described as a pan-European effort to guided the application of laws on the issuance of tokens in a number of European jurisdictions.
In addition to an evaluation of current token regulations in the EU, a detailed analysis will bbe provided for individual countries such as England & Wales, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, and Poland.
Interested parties may register here.
The meeting will take place on November 28 at 630PM. The location of the meeting is The Office, 29 Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, L-1331 Luxembourg.
Founding members consist of:
- Prof. Dr. Heribert Anzinger
- Monique Bachner
- Audrey Rouach Baverel
- Andrea Bianconi
- Jeff Braun
- Gina Conheady
- Jacek Czarnecki
- Boika Deleva
- Natalie Eichler
- Christian Ellul
- Tina Ehrke-Rabel
- Joey Garcia
- Jonathan Garcia
- Dr. Christoph Gringel
- Dr. Sven Hildebrandt
- Klaus Himmer
- Iwona Karasek-Wojciechowicz
- Dr. Sebastian Keding
- Thomas Kulnigg
- Dilmun Leach
- Lennart Lorenz
- Dr. Ian M. Maywald
- Dr. Andreas Mätzler
- Stephan D. Meyer
- Alvaro Garrido Mesa
- Stefan Michaelsen
- Dr. Luka Müller Studer
- Thomas Nägele
- Anne-Marie Nicolas
- Nejc Novak
- Daniel Resas
- Tobias Seidl
- Alireza Siadat
- Dr. Nina-Luisa Siedler
- Elfriede Sixt
- Dr. Arthur Stadler
- Matthew Suter
- Melvin Tjon Akon
- Catarina Veloso
- Dr. Oliver Völkel, LL.M.
- Dr. Thorsten Voss
- Marcin Zarakowski