French central bank looks at certification, incorporation as part of DeFi regulation By Cointelegraph

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The Banque de France has contributed to the discussion of European crypto asset regulation with a close examination of decentralized finance (DeFi) and potential approaches to its regulation. This discussion is timely because of the growing use of tokenization in finance and the introduction of blockchain technology in many economic sectors, the authors said.

The paper, written by members of the Fintech-Innovation Hub at the French central bank’s Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, noted that the term DeFi hides a range of crypto asset services, technologies and associated risks, they said. Those risks cannot be adequately addressed with current regulation: