Blockcast 65 | Fideum’s Anastasija Plotnikova on Building Regulated Crypto Infrastructure
In this episode, Takatoshi sits down with Anastasia Plotnikova, CEO of Fideum, a regulated digital asset infrastructure company operating across Lithuania and Canada. They dive into what it’s like to build in Europe under the new MiCA regulation, the practical challenges of regulation, and the global dichotomy between CeFi and DeFi. Anastasia shares her journey from law enforcement to crypto, and how growing up in the post-Soviet era shaped her deep appreciation for decentralized finance.
Topics Covered
- Anastasia’s path from EU law enforcement to crypto via Aave
- Crypto through the lens of post-Soviet economic transition
- Lithuania and the Baltics as high-tech, high-adoption crypto hubs
- What Europe’s MiCA regulation gets…
