In this episode, Takatoshi sits with Anastasia Plotnikova, CEO of Fideum, a regulated digital asset infrastructure company operating through Lithuania and Canada. They plunge into what it is to build in Europe as part of the new Mica regulations, the practical challenges of regulation and global dichotomy between CEFI and DEFI. Anastasia shares her journey from the police forces to crypto, and how to grow in the post-Soviet era shaped her deep appreciation for decentralized finance.
Covered subjects
- Anastasia path of the EU police forces at the crypto via Aave
- Crypto through the objective of the post-Soviet economic transition
- Lithuania and Baltics as a high -tech and high adoption crypto
- What the regulation of European mica is going well – and where it fails
- Why Defi is fulfilled while Cefi becomes more exclusive
- The regulation paradox: Investor protection VS Deletion of innovation
- How Fideum browsing licenses in Lithuania and Malta
- The real token of the world (RWA) and the path in the long term
- Global comparisons: Europe vs Asia against the American regulatory landscape
- Why we need international coordination for cryptography standards
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Blockcast is hosted by Apac’s head at Ledger, Takatoshi Shibayama. Previous episodes of blockcast can be found here, with guests like Davide Menegaldo (Neon Evm), Jeremy Tan (candidate of the Singapore Parliament), Alex Ryvkin (RHO), Hassan Ahmed (Coinbase), Sota Watanabe (Starletale), Nic Young (Oh), Jacob Phillips (Lombard) (SignalPlus), Kathy Zhy (Mezo), Jess Zeng (Mantle), Samar Sen (Talos), Jason Choi (Tangent), Lasanka Perera (Independent Reserve), Mark Rydon (Aethir), Luca Prosperi (M ^ 0), Charles Hoskinson (Cardano) and Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) on our recent shows.
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