The Internet of Money between Anonymity and Publicity: Legal Challenges of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Crypto Financial Landscape

This research project focuses on the impacts exerted by the tech schemes behind virtual currencies on the EU framework to prevent the misuse of the financial system and it aims to explore legal challenges posed in the IoM landscape by the double-edged nature of DLTs as both transparency and privacy-oriented. On the one hand, it plans to identify effective legislative and regulatory measures to ensure crypto account- ability from an AML/CFT standpoint, as well as to assess the relevant role of pseudonymity. On the other hand, it pursues to discover inno- vative legal approaches to secure AML/CFT active cooperation in the crypto ecosystem(s), to the end of mitigating anonymity and traceability concerns while respecting both the value of publicity and transparency in the law and the conceptual origin of the crypto economy. ispartof: pages:1-15 ispartof: Proceedings of the 2019 JURIX Doctoral Consortium (JURIX-DC-2019) vol:2598 pages:1-15 ispartof: 2019 JURIX Doctoral Consortium (JURIX-DC-2019) location:Madrid, Spain date:11 Dec - 11 Dec 2019 status: Published online