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Lodewijk van Setten

Lodewijk van Setten is Chief Risk Officer at DLT Solutions, a corporate advisory firm, and General Counsel and Director at Trilitech, a Tezos ecosystem entity focused on core protocol development and blockchain projects relating to gaming, art and DeFi. He teaches and publishes regularly on financial services and markets topics.

lodewijk.vansetten@trili.tech

Articles by author

Digitised trading and settlement: Exchange 4.0

In this article, the authors consider the benefits of, and legal issues with, Exchange 4.0, a model that addresses current questions about how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can change market infrastructure, clearing, settlement and custody systems.

1 MAR 2022

Cryptographic tokens: three categories of personal property?

In this article Lodewijk Van Setten questions the recommendation by the Law Commission in its recent Digital Assets Consultation Paper for a third category of personal property under English law called “data objects”. He suggests that the reconceptualization of the concept of property is not necessary and recommends a more constrained approach.

1 FEB 2023

DeFi platforms: delineating the regulatory perimeter

In this article the author considers how to delineate the regulatory perimeter in relation to DeFi platforms. He considers where the line is to be drawn between a platform that is essentially a CeFi platform that uses smart contract components to provide virtual asset services, and DeFi proper, where the originators of the set of smart contracts are merely developing and deploying software as a public utility.

1 NOV 2023