The Securities and Exchange Commission was pretty clear about why it deemed nine cryptocurrencies “securities” last week, and that’s equally clearly an opening salvo.
Adewale Adeyemo oversees much of the U.S. Treasury Department’s crypto work. He spoke to CoinDesk at Consensus about what he’s seeing and how he’s approaching the sector.
I spoke recently with Matthew Blake, who looks at the future of finance (among other things) at the World Economic Forum, on the industry’s prominence during this year’s meeting.