Concluding Remarks: What’s Next?
Marco Dell’Erba · 2024
Abstract After answering the key questions from a static and dynamic perspective, this chapter considers the way complexity affects regulatory responses to disruption. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of approaching the regulation of disruptive technologies as a foundational case study for regulating disruption more generally, including disruption brought by sustainability, and considers the intersection between technology and sustainability, which leads to the emergence of sustainable digital finance. Finally, this chapter identifies the next step in the technological and societal disruption, namely the creation of a new synthetic universe, the ‘metaverse’. Here, blockchain will likely be the foundational layer, and DeFi the finance of the metaverse. The chapter considers these further developments and anticipates the forthcoming legal challenges in this field.