Joachim Schwerin
Dr. Joachim Schwerin is Principal Economist in the unit in charge of Responsible Business Conduct within the Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission. He is responsible for developing the policy approach of DG GROW towards the Token Economy and Distributed-Ledger Technologies as well as their applications for industry and SMEs. His current focus lies on developing positive framework conditions for DAOs and Web3. In the financial domain, he contributed to the Digital Finance Strategy, including the MiCA Regulation, and the preparatory work for the Digital Euro. Previously, he coordinated the European Commission's industrial and competition policies and worked on SME access to finance. Joachim holds a PhD from Dresden University of Technology and was Post-Doc Research fellow at the London School of Economics' Economic History Department before he joined the European Commission in 2001.
Sessions
This panel explores the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for crypto assets, focusing on the EU’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and its implementation across member states, including the Czech Republic.
Blockchain is an EU innovation priority, and many initiatives have emerged in finance and the real economy. Now, the focus is shifting towards decentralised spaces, from Web3 and metaverses to DeFi and DAOs. What does this mean for start-ups, developers and regulators? Which role do civil rights, including privacy, play? And how can sandboxes and co-learning help projects to develop and scale?
Is blockchain based DAO a revolution in governance or is it just a natural form of governance being rediscovered through blockchain? Let’s embark on a journey, where we’ll look into why humans tend to self-organize, and why the invention of blockchain is such a revolution in reshaping the way humans govern themselves.