Blockchain Policy Insights

🚨 If you work in AI, blockchain, compliance, sustainability or digital governance, this report is NOT optional reading. It’s essential. 🔍 “Blockchain as an Enabler of Trusted AI”, produced by INATBA’s AI & Blockchain Convergence Task Force, is the most comprehensive and timely exploration of how blockchain can help restore trust in AI systems—from algorithmic transparency to ESG compliance and decentralized governance. Here’s why you should read it now: ✅ It goes beyond hype and offers concrete mechanisms for integrating ethics into AI using blockchain: auditability, smart contracts for ethical compliance, decentralized oversight via DAOs, and privacy-preserving ZKPs. ✅ It directly addresses the regulatory convergence between the EU AI Act, GDPR, ESG mandates, and Web3 infrastructures—essential knowledge if you're preparing for the future of tech governance. ✅ It provides realistic solutions to complex challenges like algorithmic bias, data colonialism, and ethical automation—especially in healthcare, justice, and finance. ✅ It outlines how blockchain-based digital trust layers will anchor AI in human values, transparency, and resilience, with mechanisms to measure, verify and reward ethical behavior through tokenization and automated ESG compliance. 🧠 Bonus: It’s written by a task force of global experts, with insights you won’t find in mainstream AI discourse. 📥 Download it. Highlight it. Share it with your policy, tech, and sustainability teams. 👉 If you believe AI must be ethical, inclusive, and verifiable—this is your blueprint. #AI #Blockchain #EthicalAI #TrustTech #DigitalGovernance #ESG #DAOs #ZKP #INATBA #ResponsibleTech #HumanCentricAI Let’s build Alfredo Yousuke Hidenori Carlos Carlos Yuki Jun

A Policymaker’s Guide to Blockchain Blockchain is a powerful \technology that creates a distributed digital ledger that allows multiple parties to engage in secure, trusted transactions with one another without an intermediary. Blockchain is best suited for certain types of applications, shared data services, smart contracts applications, decentralized marketplaces, authenticity tracking, and digital identity. Governments can and should do more to support blockchain innovation and adoption, including by supporting public sector adoption, creating a flexible regulatory environment to allow experimentation, and using targeted regulatory enforcement. However, governments can and should do more to support legitimate blockchain innovation and adoption, including ensuring regulations do not unnecessarily limit certain blockchain-based applications. Toward that end, this report offers 10 principles to guide policymakers as they approach this task: 1. Ensure technology neutrality. 2. Actively support blockchain adoption and deployment in the public sector. 3. Support blockchain research and development. 4. Promote legal certainty for blockchain applications. 5. Set rules for blockchains at the national, not subnational, level. 6. Create a flexible regulatory environment that enables experimentation. 7. Use targeted regulatory enforcement to incentivize companies to protect consumers. 8. Avoid laws and regulations that prevent the use of blockchain technology. 9. Promote data interoperability for blockchain applications. 10. Work to establish international harmonization of blockchain regulations across sectors. Bottomline - Policymakers can and should do more to support blockchain innovation and adoption, such as ensuring regulations are targeted and flexible, so as to encourage blockchain experimentation. Interestingly , These days we are focusing on Blockchain Policy Making for some of Key State Governments in India. Way Forward - Policymakers can help this future come to fruition by actively supporting the development and deployment of the technology, when it makes sense—both through adopting it into their own processes and supporting research into decentralized applications. Policymakers should ensure rules for blockchain applications are technology neutral and strive to reduce compliance costs by establishing harmonized regulations, either nationally or, as in the case of regions like Europe, at the European Commission level. Regulators should support innovation by adding flexibility into their regulatory frameworks to enable experimentation while pursuing regulatory actions against companies based on established tangible harms, such as fraud. They should avoid burdensome rules that effectively prohibit the use of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies. Most importantly, policymakers should strive to protect and support innovation in blockchain systems. 

Joint Statement on the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. In a rare and important show of unity, the crypto industry is speaking to Congress with one voice. Today, Blockchain Association, DeFi Education Fund, Coin Center, Solana Policy Institute, The Digital Chamber, Crypto Council for Innovation, and Bitcoin Policy Institute are aligned in urging Congress to include the bipartisan Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) in upcoming market structure legislation. As digital asset policy takes shape in the U.S., it’s critical to distinguish between non-custodial software developers and traditional financial institutions. The BRCA recognizes this distinction — making clear that those building peer-to-peer, decentralized systems should not be inappropriately subjected to outdated money transmission laws. The message is simple: Don’t regulate open-source code like a bank.

We're watching a meaningful shift unfold in the regulation of digital assets. What was once seen as a fragmented “regulation by enforcement” approach is now giving way to more deliberate action from Congress and financial agencies to build coherent policy frameworks, especially around stablecoins and emerging technologies. The move from “debanking” to “mainstreaming” reflects growing recognition of digital assets as a permanent fixture in the financial ecosystem, but still major questions remain around jurisdiction, oversight of novel offerings, and how regulators will address innovation without stifling progress. Our latest Regulatory Insights breaks down the actions underway and what to watch for next: https://lnkd.in/ecQ-wZG3 #KPMGFinancialServices #KPMGBanking #FinancialServices #DigitalAssets