Paris Blockchain Week highlighted the strategy adopted by global leaders in the crypto-asset sector, who are using regulation as a tool to shape and control the European digital market. This approach favors players with significant resources, thereby creating a de facto regulatory oligopoly.

The powerful political and geopolitical consequences of the conflict in the Middle East will extend far beyond the more immediate ones that this scenario aims to identify. This conflict is not an isolated incident, but rather it is part of a series of supply shocks (the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, Houthi attacks) that highlight critical dependencies on a few key chokepoints (eg, commodities...