Dear EUCI supporters,
We are pleased to share with you EUCI’s yearly accomplishments. 2022 was a challenging year, but thanks to your support and the hard work of our team, we have been able to achieve some significant milestones. In this overview, you will find a summary of our key achievements over the past year.
Regulatory activity → We worked on MiCA & the TFR; the AML package - the AMLR in particular; the kick-off of the DLT Pilot Regime; the crypto transactions reporting for taxation purposes in DAC8; the new, software-focused version of the Product Liability Directive, and the proposed Cyber Resilience Act;
Meetings with Regulators → We had multiple meetings with regulators from 7 countries (Greece, Croatia, Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Germany, and France);
EUCI Workshops → We organised 6 workshops, with topics ranging from regulating (and defining) DeFi & NFTs, designing compliant smart contracts and finding the balance between blockchain, AML and privacy;
Annual Events Recap → We participated in 11 panel discussions (including The DAOist GGG 2022, with 149 viewers on Youtube); BlockSplit, with 500 reported on-site attendees; Crypto Valley Conference, with 1200 reported on-site attendees; EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum; Adan's Crypto & Finance Forum 2022, with 150 viewers on Youtube; Ethereum Community Conference; BlackSeaChain, with 115 viewers on Youtube; World Future Verse Conference, with more than 1,000 attendees on-site and online; Solana Breakpoint, with 347 viewers on Youtube; Blockchain Association Policy Summit, with hundreds of attendees on-site; DEGF High-Level Workshop); 2 public talks (at EF Devconnect Week, and Devcon Bogota, with 256 viewers on Youtube); and 1 episode of the “Law of Code” podcast. We moderated sessions at 3 events (ETHBarcelona, with 4,000 attendees; Berlin Blockchain Week; and Blockchain for Europe Summit 2022, with 74 viewers on Youtube); co-organised The Reg3Conference (with 82 participants to our workshops and 415 participants to our 10 panel discussions), and organised our first-anniversary conference, The Future of Crypto-Assets in Europe and beyond (with 157 on-site participants from 114 organisations).
Social Media Highlights → We reached 2,228 followers on Twitter, and 1,076 followers on LinkedIn, while our newsletters reached 94 subscribers. We saw a weekly 17,35% increase in our organic followers on LinkedIn and a weekly 1,75% increase on Twitter, while our estimated growth was just 1,25% weekly (based on the growth of similar projects). Our email newsletters have an average open rate of 51.58%, which indicates the number of people who opened and read our updates. The click-to-open rate for our first email newsletter was 22,86% (considering that the average across all industries and regions is about 17.5%);
EUCI in the media (non-exhaustive list of mentions) → we were mentioned in over 20 publications, including Bloomberg, Reuters, Politico, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, Coin Desk, Yahoo Finance, Tax Notes, Zero Hedge, Cryptonews, and The Block.
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