Program

Paper presentation format: 15 minute talk + 5 minutes Q&A

[1] Workshop opening & orientation (14:00 - 14:10 UTC)

Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University, NTT Research and BSafe.network (Chair)

[2] Keynote (14:10 - 14:50 UTC)

14:10 - 15:00 Keynote: 40 minutes (Session Chair: Roman Danziger Pavlov)

Speaker: Peter Van Valkenburgh

Title:"Your Right to DeFi"

Abstract: A look at how and whether future regulation of DeFi could threaten human rights, in particular privacy and speech rights, through the lens of past conflicts between cryptography researchers and the state, e.g. the first "crypto wars." Included will be a comparative legal analysis of US Constitutionalism and fundamental rights law from other regions (e.g. UN Declaration, German Basic Law).

Slides

[3] DeFi Risks (14:50 - 15:30 UTC)

Session Chair: Julien Bringer, Kallistech

Jacob Swambo and Antoine Poinsot (King's College London, WizardSardine), Risk Framework for Bitcoin Custody Operation with the Revault Protocol

Ryosuke Ushida and James Angel (Georgetown University), Regulatory Considerations on Centralized Aspects of DeFi managed by DAOs

[4] Coffee Break and Social (15:30 - 16:00 UTC)

[5] AML/KYC and Privacy (16:00- 18:20 UTC)

Session Chair: Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University School of Law

Patrik Keller, Martin Florian and Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck, Humboldt University / Weizenbaum Institute), Short Paper: Collaborative Deanonymization

Jacek Czarnecki (Maker DAO), Regulatory Challenges of the Decentralized Securities Trading

Takeshi Chino (Kraken), Re: FINCEN-2020-0020; RIN 1506-AB47

Marta Belcher (protocol.ai), Comments to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets

Ryan Taylor, Glenn Austin and Omar Hamwi (Dash), Re: FinCEN Docket Number FINCEN-2020-0020; RIN 1506-AB47; Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets

Aaron Wright and Sachin Meier (Yeshiva University, Georgetown University), Analyzing the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Proposed Regulation Relating to Anti Money Laundering and Know Your Customer Compliance

[6] Round Table (Joint with all workshops 18:30 - 19:30 UTC)

** Moderator: Aaron J. Wright (Yeshiva University) **

A multi-stakeholder roundtable discussion of recent regulatory actions and technology advancements on AML/KYC and privacy.

This round table will be conducted under Chatham House Rule

CoDecFin21 panelists (alphabetical order)