ETHPragueConf 2025

Regulation Panel
05-28, 14:15–15:00 (CET), Flower

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.

Radim is an attorney-at-law at Blockchain Legal, the most experienced cryptocurrency law firm on the Czech and Slovak market. He advises not only corporate clients, but also a wide range of individual clients. Among other things, he focuses on setting up legal aspects of portfolios, investments and family and inheritance models. He has been practicing law in this area since 2015.

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llija is a legal professional with expertise in business development, strategy, and innovation. He has a strong background in managing complex projects and fostering growth in dynamic environments. His areas of expertise include business law, tax law, and digital asset law (cryptocurrencies, NFTs, etc.). Ilija is also one of the organizers of the ETH Belgrade conference.

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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.

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Ondřej Kovařík has been a Member of the European Parliament elected in the Czech Republic since 2019. He is currently a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Transport and Tourism. His portfolio spans from capital markets and competitiveness and support for small and medium-sized enterprises to the practical application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and the development of digital finance. Among other things, he was the author of an opinion report on artificial intelligence. He was the rapporteur for the directive on payment services and shadow rapporteur on the respective regulation. He also negotiated the Open Finance proposal and played a substantive role in shaping the regulation on markets in cryptoassets. Additionally, he served as rapporteur for the LIBE opinion to the Digital Markets Act proposal.