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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS)

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The EU Regulatory Sandbox for Blockchain: a win-win situation

On 15 February the European Commission announced the launch of the pan-European Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox for innovative use cases involving Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). The sandbox that was initially planned to become operational in 2021/22, now started on 14 April 2023. The sandbox comes amid reignited interest in blockchain techn...

30 April 2023

The Ethereum 2.0 Journey: From Beacon to Eternity

Last year September Ethereum blockchain entered a new phase in its Ethereum 2.0 journey. After launched the Beacon Chain in December 2020, a parallel blockchain which acts as consensus engine that runs on proof of stake, The Merge was concluded in September 2022 whereby the Beacon Chain and the Mainnet, the normal Ethereum blockchain, merged into ...

30 March 2023 /devops /crypto Blockchain Observations

Sarafu: crypto currency for rural communities

Recently I read a very interesting and stimulating article in a Dutch newspaper. It was about the Community Currency named Sarafu that is used in Kenya’s rural communities thereby trying to solve the issue of proper circulation of finances. The Sarafu Network, is a so-called Community Inclusion Currency or CIC, yet only a few outside the country ...

27 February 2023 /inclusion /crypto Blockchain Observations

Crisis in the crypto markets: Will it survive? Yes!

The collapse of crypto exchange FTX early November 2022 plunged the crypto markets into a crisis. This event sparked a wave of crypto-bankruptcies, failed investments and rapid collapses. The current situation is a mixture of concern and uncertainty with the future of the crypto markets. This has triggered regulators worldwide to come with stricte...

31 January 2023

Main trends in blockchain and crypto in 2023

Turning back from our almost one month stay during November in South Africa, our beloved travel country, I was heavily chocked by the events on the crypto markets. During our stay I had promised my wife not to follow the news in these areas. But looking at internet I read the various articles and blogs on the FTX crypto exchange collapse and the ne...

29 December 2022

SWIFT and CBDC projects: successful experiments

Early October SWIFT launched two publications describing the results of two important experiments, one on interoperability and the other on tokenization. In these publications SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies. SWIFT t...

07 November 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations

The state of CBDC projects: lessons learned

The future of the financial world will be digital. But it is becoming clear that this world will not be dominated by privately-issued crypto assets like crypto currencies such as Bitcoin or even stable coins. It is becoming all the more likely that it will be central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) that are digital versions of nation’s fiat money ...

30 September 2022

Blockchain and the Music Industry: Singing the Blues again

I am a music fan. Of all sorts, from classic, to pop, to etc. In the sixteenths I visited the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Plumpton South England. And there I saw Deep Purple for the first time. It was great. Recently I read that, notwithstanding the music industry is an incredibly big business, many artists still have a pover life. This whi...

15 August 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations

EU crypto regulation: global cooperation or competition?

Finally, after two years of intensive deliberations, EU legislators have reached a provisional agreement on its landmark Markets in Crypto Assets (MICA) directive, that is aimed to govern the crypto space in Europe for the years to come. The recent crypto market crash shows how highly risky and speculative crypto currencies are. It confirmed th

12 July 2022

Unstable stable coins: how to regulate?

The crypto market was shocked by the sudden collapse of the third largest stablecoin TerraUSD early May. Long-time isolated from the falls in crypto coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum, stablecoins were designed to sidestep crypto volatility and supposed to remain stable across the crypto ecosystem. The significant crash of TerraUSD that lost more tha...

07 June 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations