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.