See Tom Brady Speak at the Last Day of Consensus

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What you need to know today at Consensus 2021 and beyond  May 27, 2021 Sponsored By:     Welcome to the last day of Consensus 2021! Today is Day 4 at Consensus, CoinDesk's biggest event of the year, featuring panels, workshops, keynote speakers, fireside chats, networking and more, all exploring the evolution of digital finance and blockchain technology. The Node will bring the best of Consensus to your inbox in special morning and evening editions from May 24-27. There's still time to register for Consensus here.   If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to receive it, sign up here.  Questions? Feedback? We'd love to hear from you! Simply reply to this email. –Cameron Hood, newsletter editor Today's must-attends Your Guide It could be said that we saved the best for last on the final day of Consensus 2021. The big themes of today's broadcast will include the current regulatory landscape and how it can be improved, particularly how it relates to the emerging fields of crypto-native banking and decentralized finance. Rounding out the day will be a series of fireside chats with some of the biggest names in the industry, including one late arrival: Tom Brady.    Here are a few sessions I'm checking out. Be sure to look through the guide to see everything that's on offer today.  8:00 – 8:20 a.m. A Conversation with FinCEN Acting Director Michael Mosier Slow Ventures' Jill Carlson speaks with Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Acting Director Michael Mosier about the coming spate of regulation needed (or not) to prevent financial crime on blockchain networks.   8:25 – 8:50 a.m. Whack-a-Mole: Crypto Tax Treatment Around the Globe Lukka, OECD and One Hundred Ventures tax experts discuss the unfocused, jurisdictional patchwork of crypto tax laws.    9:25 – 9:50 a.m. New Wineskins: Can DeFi Fit in the Old World Legal System? Aave's Rebecca Rettig, Compound's Jake Chervinsky, dYdX's Marc Boiron, Uniswap's Marvin Ammori and Nifty's Olta Andoni – perhaps the top legal minds in DeFi – ask whether this emergent industry needs new financial guidance.    12:25 – 1:00 p.m. If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em? Why Crypto Companies Are Becoming Banks Representatives from Paxos, Anchorage, Perkins Coie join Caitlin Long and CoinDesk's Marc Hochstein to discuss the growing trend of crypto natives becoming "banks," and whether this trend will last under a new administration. This thread is picked up again at 2:10 p.m. with "Who Needs Banks Anyways? The State of Decentralized Financial Services," featuring Bankless's David Hoffman, among others.    4:15 – 4:55 p.m. A Car in Every Driveway and a Personal Token in Every Wallet Many are betting that personal tokens (or social tokens, as they're sometimes called) will be the next big trend to sweep through the crypto world. Roll's Bradley Miles and Rally's Kevin Chou join Alex Masmej and Joon Ian Wang, who have tokenized themselves, for a roundtable. Later, learn about Spencer Dinwiddie's social token experiment at 6:10 p.m.    Rounding out the last day at Consensus are a series of one-on-one interviews with distinguished guests including Whale Shark, Cathie Wood, CZ, and a just-announced fireside chat featuring Sam Bankman-Fried and Tom Brady.    –Daniel Kuhn A message from Nexo Your digital assets deserve a savings account in their BEST INTEREST. 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Today, more than ever, these technologies are offering individuals a self-sovereign financial future.    This week at Consensus by CoinDesk, our virtual big-tent conference, we examine the trails being blazed and the people leading the charge.    Join our Explorations track "Dimension C: Life in the Parallel Financial System," sponsored by eToro, with Brooklyn Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie, eToro CEO Yoni Assia, Venrock's David Pakman and more at Consensus by CoinDesk, running to May 27. Register today. Putting the news in perspective Top Shelf OFFICIALS REVIEW: The SEC is now officially reviewing two more BTC ETF applications. Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge Capital and Fidelity Investments' Wise Origin Bitcoin Trust join four others under official review with more still pending. 9 MONTHS IN: Meanwhile, Fidelity Investments' first bitcoin fund has raised $102 million from wealthy investors since launching last August, according to Wednesday regulatory filings.  CODERS < BANKERS: DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank by assets with a $55.4 billion market capitalization, is helping Singapore's central bank research blockchain. CEO Piyush Gupta said the institution has twice as many engineers as bankers.  BTS ESG: Bitcoin's environmental concerns, pushed to the forefront by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, could slow big investors' push into the cryptocurrency, according to analysts and industry executives. "Crypto needs to address renewable energy, and then it will be able to resume its bullish trend," Edward Moya, senior market analyst at the brokerage firm Oanda, told CoinDesk. –D.K. Sponsored Content   TimeCoin: We Need A Decentralized Sharing Economy Protocol The way the world works has undergone a sea change with the rapid growth of both the sharing and gig economies.  $DESK Watch There's more to Consensus networking than just circling around the latest $DESK drop like a shoal of piranhas ... there are also memes. Here's a video put together by one creative Consensus attendee featuring the "Black Hoodie Guy" from a Tuesday session. Someone mint the NFT! ATTENTION: Scammers have been sending fraudulent emails with links to sites disguised to look like coindesk.com. If you are in doubt about a link, type https://www.coindesk.com directly into your browser; do not copy and paste. Remember, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. 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