Nicolas Brügger

This roundtable examines the potential of public permissionless blockchains to enhance traditional financial services. However, with new opportunities come new risks. These risks, such as operational, reputational and legal risks need to be adequately addressed. The aim of the roundtable is to discuss potential use cases for regulated activities on public permissionless blockchains, the risks involved and how these risks can be mitigated by policymakers, including international and industry standard setters, and regulators.

Participants can familiarise themselves with the topic with the following pre-read materials from the discussants:

• Enhancing financial services with permissionless blockchains - Publications Office of the EU
• guardian-fixed-income-framework.pdf
• Private sector partners join Project Agorá
• Introducing Digital Asset Securities Control Principles (DASCP) - Euroclear

The mentioned discussions of potential use cases for regulated activities on public permissionless blockchains, the risks involved and how these risks can be mitigated by policymakers, including international and industry standard setters, and regulators will be published in a whitepaper.