Coinbase launches new crypto think tank to help shape policies
Coinbase’s new “crypto native think tank” features an advisory board of finance and law academics from top United States universities and will publish original research to shape policies around crypto. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has created a “crypto native think tank” in an attempt to help shape the global conversation around policies for digital assets.The newly formed Coinbase Institute will also publish research on crypto and Web3.Coinbase tapped its Director of Policy Hermine Wong to head the institute. She previously served in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the....
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Dutch Regulator Approves Coinbase
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Matthew Pines of the Bitcoin Policy Institute shares the goals of the new think tank as well as his take on the American and European approaches to bitcoin.