Global Digital Asset Forum Vienna: Asset-Referenced Tokens
What makes asset-referenced tokens so difficult to classify under MiCA?
Testing the Boundaries of MiCA’s DeFi Exemption
Few topics currently attract as much attention in the financial sector as stablecoins. What began as a technical tool within the crypto ecosystem has evolved into a strategically relevant instrument of monetary and financial policy.
Global Digital Asset Forum Vienna: Regulating Innovation
How does supervisory practice shape the innovation landscape?
Stablecoins: From Niche Product to Strategic Power Instrument
Few topics currently attract as much attention in the financial sector as stablecoins. What began as a technical tool within the crypto ecosystem has evolved into a strategically relevant instrument of monetary and financial policy.
From Dollar Dominance to Euro Ambitions
A high-level debate on the world’s next currency competition.
Europe's Answer to the Stablecoin Challenge
A legal and strategic roadmap for Europe's digital money future.
CBDCs: Public Money in a Digital Age
A rare insight directly from the institution designing the monetary system of tomorrow.
Driving Innovation: Stablecoins in the Private Economy
In this keynote as part of our Vienna FinTech Week 2025 event, Prof. Alfred Taudes explored why privately issued digital assets have become the cornerstone of payment innovation — and how Europe must react if it doesn’t want to fall behind.
Decentralization on Trial - What Regulation Means for Layer-1 Governance in Europe
Regulators across Europe are tightening their grip on crypto. MiCA brings clarity, but where does that leave Layer-1 protocols, the very foundations of decentralized ecosystems? CERHA HEMPEL partner Oliver Völkel sat down with Nicolas Jacquemart, Chief Legal Officer of the Cardano Foundation, and Nathalie Boyke, Founder of Nucleus42 and former Head of Public Affairs at Web3 Foundation, to debate what comes next for blockchain governance in Europe.
Austria and MiCA: clarity, complexity, and compliance in 2026
Few topics currently capture the attention of the financial sector as strongly as stablecoins. Only recently, the United States introduced the GENIUS Act, creating a dedicated legal framework for their issuance. In Europe, by contrast, a binding regime for so-called e-money tokens has already been in place for more than a year through the EU Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA).