Decentralised finance, including crypto-asset markets and DeFi protocol activity, has been promoted as a tool to support the democratisation of finance. This report presents quantitative evidence from ASEAN economies that participation in decentralised finance markets has been largely driven by...

"This book focuses on the crypto economy as an alternative economic space and discusses how it should be governed. Decentralised Finance and other financial innovations in the crypto economy are also discussed, and the book proposes a blueprint for regulation in this dynamic landscape in order...

"Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "meme stocks", the Gamestop short squeeze, and "You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading". These are movements led by small-scale retail investors banding together to participate forcefully in financial markets...