Crypto Doesn’t Need Safe Havens, It Needs Safe Markets
Crypto has never needed “safe havens.” It needs safe markets.
The difference is more than semantics. A safe haven is a place to hide; a safe market is a place to build. Jurisdictions that understand this distinction will be the ones that capture the next significant wave of serious capital.
The crypto industry has been in a regulatory tug-of-war for over a decade. On one side, innovators argued that too much oversight would suffocate the technology, while skeptics warned that too little would expose investors to catastrophic risk. The collapse of crypto exchange FTX in November 2022 only widened this divide even more.
Caught in the middle, many crypto businesses took on a simple playbook: they found the jurisdiction with the lightest…
