Project

Presente y futuro de la regulación de los Criptoactivos en
la UE [Legalcripto].

Proyecto Prometeo CIPROM/2022/26, grupos de investigación de excelencia, de la Generalitat Valenciana.

Mission and Vision

Legalcripto is a project recognised by the Generalitat Valenciana as a group of excellence among the research groups of Valencian universities, entitled “Presente y futuro de la regulación de los Criptoactivos en la UE [Legalcripto]”, Proyecto Prometeo 2023 (CIPROM/2022/26).

Its mission focuses on the analysis of the legal implications of Blockchain technology (TDR) and its impact on the financial system and payment systems. In the context of the new Global Digital Marketplace, blockchain will be key for Europe not to lose its identity and values and for its citizens and businesses to operate with guarantees.

Objectives

The European legal framework underpinning the new digital reality, which is complex and in constant transformation, calls for a thorough investigation of the regulation of the financial system. The profound transformation of this system requires appropriate regulation that guarantees its stability and places citizens and SMEs at the center of the digital market.

Without prejudice to the scope of this ambitious general objective, which is based on the European regulatory plan, LegalCripto also aims to address the new challenges of the digital era, which require the coordination and interaction of different regulatory frameworks, such as those relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the European Digital Identity and the European Digital Finance Strategy.

 

LegalCripto’s specific research objectives focus both on the present, with the final approval of its legal framework, and on the near future, when it will make the leap to regulatory specialisation. Indeed, second versions of the Regulations on crypto-asset markets (MiCA) and on electronic identification and trust services in electronic transactions (eIDAS) are foreseen; third versions of the Directive on payment services and electronic money (PSD); as well as technical standards and second-level implementing legislation.

 

In addition, this difficult architecture includes the fit of a future digital euro and its impact on the rescaling and implementation of the euro.

Our research objectives cover the following sectors, activities and legal areas:

Sectors

  • Enabling technologies (Blockchain and DLTs, AI, IoT, quantum computing).
  • Financial and banking.
  • Sustainability and circular economy.
  • Energy, energy communities.
  • Food sector.
  • Retail trade and consumers.
  • Wholesale trade and distribution.
  • International trade and transport.
  • Tourism.

Activities

  • Mediation and arbitration.
  • Opinions.
  • Reports.
  • Certifications, expert reports, technological audits, economic and legal sustainability.
  • Visas for whitepapers.
  • Feasibility analysis of digital projects.
  • Technological and legal compliance.
  • Start-up consultancy.

Legal Areas

  • Cryptoassets
  • Fintech and payment methods.
  • Digitalisation of companies and corporate governance.
  • Data protection
  • Data spaces
  • CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Economy and general purpose companies.
  • Blockchain companies (DAOs)
  • Consumers
  • Electronic platforms.
  • Corporate Governance
  • Family protocols and shareholders’ agreements
  • Insolvency law and corporate recovery.
  • Competition law.
  • Intellectual property law.