# Introduction I am going to talk about why cryptocurrencies matter. I am going to take the skeptics side. I am going to start from a banker's standpoint why a lot of the things that cryptocurrency people land say don't make any sense. # Where are the engineers coming from? An engineer will look ...

# Backgrounds * NTT * JFSA * SEC (enforcement division) * celo * compliance * gold reserves, central bank digital currencies (monetary policy controls) * soc1/soc2 audits * engineer # Developers and regulators: lawfulness questions Are software developers liable from a regulatory perspective for ...

We looked at economic risks, and how to build a social safety net while allowing innovations. We talked about a bunch of different projects and looked at different systemic risk views from different countries. So the idea was to understand it from an economic perspective. I don't think we came to an...

Good morning. Let us start this workshop. I am a researcher at Georgetown University and it is my pleasure to host this workshop. CoDeFi is a workshop about coordination of decentralized finance. This unfortunately shares a name with a Consensys product. CoDeFi contains CoDe and DeFi. This is a mult...

# Introduction This is an overview of catastrophic failure risk in decentralized systems. There are certain degrees of risk in this system where losses can be moderate but not entirely destructive, but also potential failure modes where losses can be serious and ruinous equivalent to the global fin...

# Introduction Hi, good morning everyone. I am a Japanese financial regulator at JFSA. My goal is to promote financial innovations and still ensure the financial stability and various regulatory goals. I have nearly 10 years experience as a regulator. I don't have a strong background in technology,...

Introduction More quantitatively, I think coming up with stress tests is akin to Bryan's question.... stress testing is something that people in this space kind of do, and I'm going to talk about what that looks like and what an actuarial analysis should look like. I'm going to go through three ex...

Controversial thesis: the primary source of economic instability is unreasonable demands (from regulators, but really from the general public) for violating certain cryptocurrency tech design principles, like on sound money- privacy and confidentiality (like confidential transactions and confidentia...