Blockchain in the EU: Transforming imaginaries and the social making of fnancial regulation
Inês Faria · Anthropology Today · 2023
Based on local and online ethnographic research, this article explores how blockchain projects and financial supervisors navigate transforming technological dispositions and interact in constructing regulatory frameworks. While there is a straightforward replacement of revolutionary blockchain narratives with regulatory compliance ones, there is also degree of codependency between regulators and market actors in regulatory negotiation.