Why Digital Asset Compliance Matters Now: The New Financial Infrastructure Taking Shape

Digital Assets 101: BTC, ETH & Tokenization

What's the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum? What even is tokenization? In episode one, host Angel Puente walks you through the digital asset landscape — the essentials every crypto compliance professional needs to understand before diving deeper.  If you work in crypto compliance, advise those who do, or are building something in this space, this is where we start. Subscribe and follow for new episodes. Music: Royalty-free music provided by ThaLoops. Host: Angel Puente Reyes https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-puente-reyes-%F0%90%A4%8A-2566074a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-puente-reyes-%F0%90%A4%8A-2566074a/] Website: https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/ [https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/] Twitter/X: https://x.com/CryptoCompPod [https://x.com/CryptoCompPod] https://x.com/kaspaintern [https://x.com/kaspaintern]

Why Digital Asset Compliance Matters Now: The New Financial Infrastructure Taking Shape

€540 million in MiCAR penalties in three months. Over 883,000 Bitcoin acquired by institutions in a single year. A 700% surge in Iranian crypto outflows during military strikes while the country was under internet blackout. The compliance landscape is not changing. It is solidifying into permanent market structure. In this episode, I examine why 2026 is the inflection point where regulatory convergence, institutional demand, and enforcement escalation are reshaping digital assets from the ground up. I introduce two concepts from my doctoral research, regulatory multiplicity and contextual compliance, and lay out the four-pillar framework this podcast will build on. We look at what the Iran conflict is revealing in real time about sanctions evasion through crypto infrastructure, why the UAE and Singapore represent two fundamentally different regulatory philosophies, and what institutional allocators actually ask before committing capital to digital assets. If you're working in compliance, building in this space, or advising those who do, this is where we go deeper. Subscribe and follow for new episodes. Music: Royalty-free music provided by ThaLoops. Host: Angel Puente Reyes https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-puente-reyes-%F0%90%A4%8A-2566074a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-puente-reyes-%F0%90%A4%8A-2566074a/] Website: https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/ [https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/] Twitter/X: https://x.com/CryptoCompPod [https://x.com/CryptoCompPod] / https://x.com/kaspaintern [https://x.com/kaspaintern]

Welcome | Intro

Introducing The Crypto Compliance Podcast, the compliance conversation crypto actually needs. What happens when an entire industry builds its compliance architecture on borrowed frameworks? In this first episode, I introduce The Crypto Compliance Podcast and make the case for why digital asset regulation needs its own playbook. I share my background as a cross-border compliance lawyer and PhD researcher, and break down the core problem: the tools and thinking we inherited from traditional finance weren't designed for this technology, and the gap between the two is costing the industry. This episode sets the foundation for everything that follows. If you work in crypto compliance, advise those who do, or are building something in this space, this is where we start. Subscribe and follow for new episodes. Music: Royalty-free music provided by ThaLoops. Host: Angel Puente Website: https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/ [https://cryptocompliancepodcast.com/] Twitter/X: https://x.com/CryptoCompPod [https://x.com/CryptoCompPod]