Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN)

Upcoming Events Details

• General meetings
  • BGIN Block #4 meeting (Virtual Nairobi/Lome/Accra) : Novemner 2-4, 2021 [Details]
• Working group and study group
  • GWG bi-weekly call :
  • IKP WG/SGIP bi-weekly call : next call 12:00-13:00 PM UTC, September 16, 2021 [Draft agenda] [Zoom link]

• Decentralized Treasury Working Group bi-weekly call:

  • TBD

• ByLaw task force:

  • TBD

• Panel discusion

  • OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum
    • September 22: FATF Panel: Virtual assets and financial crime: Building an effective global regime to mitigate the risks
    • October 1: Panel: Decentralised Finance

• Associated academic conference

  • Coordination of Decentralized Finance 2022 (CoDecFin 22), a workshop of Financial Cryptography 2022 (February 18, 2022)

Recent activities

• Presentation at FATF’s Private Sector Consultative Forum on virtual assets (April 20, 2021) [Presentation slides]

Documents for consideration

• IAM, Key Management and Privacy WG (IPKM WG)
  • Scope of Key Management WS [Centralized custody] [Decentralized custody]
  • Decentralized Financial Technologies and Privacy, Identity and Traceability WS

A New Beginning…

On March 10, 2020, a group of people from various blockchain stakeholder groups agreed on the establishment of a new global network named Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN - pronounced ‘BEGIN’). Japan led the discussion at the G20 in 2019 as the presidency on the governance for decentralized finance in accordance with the experiences against high profile hacking incidents and of forming regulatory frameworks. Building on this background, this network aims at providing an open and neutral sphere for all stakeholders to deepen common understanding and to collaborate to address issues they face in order to attain sustainable development of the blockchain community.