Digital Assets Download - Stability Amid Uncertainty

Blockchain projects are often subject to uncertainty of all types – regulatory, market adoption and technological feasibility among them. But despite that uncertainty and other headwinds – as we forecasted – disruptions and evolutions in blockchain products continue to be rolled out by tradfi and defi actors alike.

In our latest Digital Assets Download, we highlight a number of these stories in our News Node, including several noteworthy product developments and regulatory steps in the United States and around the world. In addition, we examine a first-of-its-kind, triple-token merger, and the challenges and opportunities it creates. We also look at regulatory developments in derivatives and insurance – two sectors where the application of blockchain have only begun to be explored.

For the Uninitiated: Digital Assets Download is a curated mix of insights and headlines that provide a Layer 3 Legal Perspective™ on the digital assets multiverse—created by Mayer Brown’s global Digital Assets, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency group. (Check out our previous editions of the Digital Assets Download).

Selected events for deeper dives into different parts of the digital assets and DeFi world.

Commissioner Johnson Announces CFTC Market Risk Advisory Committee Meeting on April 9

At this meeting, the MRAC introduced formal recommendations, reports, and presentations that offer insightful guidance consistent with the Commission’s efforts to strengthen the stability of the US financial system by addressing timely and diverse issues. These include an effective approach to manage the resilience, recovery, or wind down of central counterparties, updates on the work of several workstreams on block implementation rules, post-trade risk reduction services, and margin transparency, margin procyclicality and margin calls.