Foreword: METI Advisory wrote this report for SEBA Bank AG. Abstract: The European Commission’s (EC) Digital Finance Package (DFP), issued on 24 September 2020, includes a proposal for a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on the distributed ledger technology (DLT). The EC acknowledges that no sustainable and expanding primary crypto-asset market is possible without a secondary market that provides liquidity. The proposal for a pilot regime is, therefore, a logical complement to the recommended EU regulatory framework on crypto-assets reviewed in the October issue of the Digital Regulator. Despite recognising the mutual dependency of the two proposals, the EC takes a very cautious approach by proposing rules for a pilot regime with sandbox characteristics, as opposed to offering a regulation for a fully-fledged regime. The European Council and the European Parliament will decide the fate of the pilot regime, five years after it comes into force. Meanwhile, Switzerland has adopted a full-fledged and final crypto-asset regulation, also covering DLT-based market infrastructure, which comes into force next year after the ongoing consultation on implementing ordinances is over.
The EU pilot regime for DLT-based market infrastructure (November 2020)
Mattia Rattaggi