In 2014, Evgeny Skigin started building crypto payment infrastructure because he believed in the technology. He chose Liechtenstein as Bitclear's base because he believed the regulatory framework would matter. The compliance infrastructure a firm builds before the rules require it, he has argued, determines which businesses survive when the rules eventually arrive. More than a decade later, the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation has been fully applicable across all memb

When Evgeny Skigin started working with industrial hemp in 2008, the crop was widely dismissed in European finance as an agricultural curiosity with limited commercial potential. Sixteen years later, France alone harvests roughly 23,000 hectares of hemp annually, and the European market for industrial hemp products is projected to expand from $3.6 billion to $25 billion within a decade. Evgeny Skigin, co-founder of Dun Agro Hemp Group and a practitioner in the hemp industry s

Evgeny Skigin is a European entrepreneur specialising in cryptocurrency and industrial hemp. Based in Switzerland, he co-founded Dun Agro Hemp Group, a Netherlands-based company developing a vertically integrated industrial hemp company, and founded Bitclear, a crypto payment infrastructure firm licensed by Liechtenstein's Financial Market Authority. He entered the hemp industry in 2008 and the crypto space in 2014, in both cases building before institutional markets were rea