Coordinating Compliance for a Sustainable Blockchain Future.

The MiCA Crypto Alliance is a collaborative initiative established by the DLT Science Foundation, designed to streamline and enhance compliance with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Governed by its members, including L1 and L2 protocols, and exchanges, the Alliance fosters uniformity and comparability in white paper content and sustainability indicators. By coordinating these efforts, the Alliance reduces compliance costs and ensures high standards across the industry, providing members with exclusive access to advanced tools and resources for sustainability assessment and white paper development.

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Founding Members

Meet the diverse group of institutions that drive our collaborative approach to compliance and sustainability.

Technical Partner

To address legal complexities and promote frameworks that bolster sustainable growth and protect market participants in the evolving crypto environment.

Mission

We are launching the MiCA Crypto Alliance bringing together industry in the interest of coordination, setting best practices, and reducing costs. All the while ensuring access to the best, scrutinised crypto climate data.

What we solve for

Lack of industry coordination

Protocols, exchanges, consultants and lawyers are misaligned on where responsibility lies.

Practitioners lack knowledge

Existing players in the space have insufficient expertise in crypto policy, technology or sustainability.

ESMA has not set best practice

Methodologies and expected outputs remain unclear, and previous whitepaper work is already outdated.

High overhead costs

Lawyers, data, quantitive studies, and continuous upkeep amounting to well over six figures.

Steering Committee

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Dimitrios Psarrakis
Board Director
Global Blockchain Business Council
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Dimitris Psarrakis is an accomplished financial economist and financial markets innovator, currently holding the position of Board Director at GBBC and serving as a Senior Fellow at Wharton Business School. He is a co-founder of ValueVerse and possesses extensive experience in corporate finance, banking, and financial regulation. Psarrakis dedicated seven years to the role of Economic and Monetary Policy Specialist at the European Parliament, where he was instrumental in co-drafting significant portions of the EU's Digital Finance Regulations, including the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation and the DLT Pilot Regime. Additionally, he contributed to the design of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and the InvestEU and has authored policy reports for the G-20. He is a frequent speaker in prominent financial and regulatory fora and he has lectured classes in leading Universities including Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.

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Clara Guerra
Director
SFID Liechtenstein
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Dr. Clara Guerra is a distinguished leader in digital finance and emerging technologies, currently serving as the Director of the Office for Financial Market Innovation and Digitalisation (SFID) within the Liechtenstein Government. In this role, she spearheads strategic initiatives that drive digital transformation, while pragmatically addressing associated risks and ensuring alignment between government regulations and industry innovations in the financial market and emerging technologies. Additionally, Dr. Guerra is the Co-Chair of the European Blockchain Association and Chair of the INATBA Governmental Advisory Board, where she plays a crucial role in shaping global digital policy. With her legal expertise and extensive international experience, Dr. Guerra is recognised as a thought leader who advocates for balanced and forward-thinking regulatory approaches across diverse sectors, including MedTech and education.

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Roman Beck
Head
European Blockchain Center
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Roman Beck is a Full Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and is the Head of the European Blockchain Center. He also heads the Working Group on Blockchain Ethics for the EU Commission and represents Denmark in the European Blockchain Partnership Technical Working Group at the EU Commission in Brussels. Additionally, he serves as the convenor of the Blockchain Interoperability Governance group at UNECE and was the appointed Danish expert on the OECD Blockchain Policy advisory board as well as the convenor of the ISO TC307 standard TS23635 on Blockchain Governance. For more information go to: www.ebcc.eu

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Technical Committee

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Juan Ignacio Ibañez
General Secretary
Exponential Science
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Juan Ignacio Ibañez is the Chief of Staff at the DLT Science Foundation. His work focuses on blockchain and sustainability, covering carbon accounting, carbon markets, renewable energy, and supply chains. He has authored multiple scientific articles on blockchain carbon footprint and the two first MiCA white papers ever written. He is also a researcher at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Argentina.

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Ian Jebbitt
Legal Counsel
Exponential Science
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Ian Jebbitt is a Durham University graduate in Law and an Oxford University Graduate in Intellectual Property Law. Ian qualified with DLA Piper in the United Kingdom and relocated to Hong Kong as part of the team that established a new Intellectual Property practice in Hong Kong in 2012. Ian is a seasoned multi-jurisdictional expert in intellectual property law, with over 15 years spent as a leading lawyer at DLA Piper advising blue chip clients in all four corners of the globe. Ian occupied the position of Chief Operating Officer of TOKO, a 100% tech subsidiary of DLA Piper, the first entity to receive a full market license from VARA in Dubai. Ian also served a term as a Co-Chair for Hedera and occupies the office of General Counsel at DLT Science Foundation.

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Membership Benefits

Advanced Sustainability Indicators

Measure and report your environmental impact, ensuring compliance with MiCA’s sustainability requirements -- 
ahead of 1 January 2025.

Influence Over Standards

Participate in regular Alliance engagement with legal and policy teams around the world, all working towards a very specific application: achieving perfect compliance with MiCA.

Human-in-the-loop AI White Paper Elaboration Tools

Reduce compliance costs and go beyond the “bare minimum”, achieving the state of the art.

Ongoing Support

When MiCA requirements are updated, on when data goes out of date, Exponential Science enables you to catch back up.

Strategic Guidance from DSF

Receive personalised strategic and technical guidance from the Exponential Science team of blockchain experts to navigate the complexities of MiCA compliance, and access to  ES’s internal white paper scoring tools.

Legal liability protection

Through the Alliance’s technical partners.

Access to the Steering Committee

World-leading specialist, including experts involved in the 
writing of MiCA itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers about the MiCA Crypto Alliance, MiCA regulations, membership benefits, and how we support our members.