Affiliate Yesha Yadav Leads Digital Assets Policy Summit, Analysis Group’s Lisa Pinheiro and Mark Berberian Moderate Panels

April 14, 2026

Analysis Group Managing Principal Lisa Pinheiro and Vice President Mark Berberian moderated panels at the inaugural Digital Assets and Emerging Technology Policy Summit, an invite-only gathering of regulators, members of congress, academics, and industry leaders to share perspectives on US digital asset and emerging technology regulation. The summit was developed and led by Vanderbilt University Law School Associate Dean and Analysis Group affiliate Yesha Yadav and cohosted by Vanderbilt University and the Blockchain Association.

During a fireside chat, Professor Yadav spoke with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig about his efforts to align regulatory policy and promote cooperation between the CFTC and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). They also discussed the CFTC’s policy priorities and regulatory agenda, including potential frameworks for CFTC-regulated perpetuals in the US, efforts to assert and clarify the agency’s jurisdiction over prediction markets, and other initiatives aimed at maintaining a regulatory framework that allows for creativity and innovation.

Following Professor Yadav’s panel, Ms. Pinheiro moderated a conversation about the regulation of emerging frontier markets with panelists Coy Garrison (Robinhood), Chris Giancarlo (Willkie), Lee Schneider (Avalanche Labs), Justin Slaughter (Paradigm), and Matthew Solomon (Cleary Gottlieb). The panelists discussed the policy challenges of regulating new digital asset markets in the US, including the impact of operating across overlapping domestic and international regulatory regimes and uncertainty around incorporating compliance into permissionless blockchain infrastructures. The conversation also explored legal uncertainty surrounding prediction markets, including conflicting federal and state authority as well as the application of existing insider trading frameworks to a wide range of event-based contracts. Regarding how the CFTC may approach such challenges, panelists noted the CFTC’s stated commitment to rulemaking, including regulatory frameworks for perpetuals and other frontier markets, and its efforts to aggressively protect its jurisdiction over marketplace regulation.

In the afternoon, Mr. Berberian moderated a panel on tokenization and the future of capital markets infrastructure with panelists Salman Banaei (Plume), Chris Brummer (Georgetown Law and Fintech Foundation), Linda Jeng (Aave Labs), Vy Le (Veda Labs), Amy Oldenburg (Morgan Stanley), and Sara Weed (Gibson Dunn). The conversation centered on compliance, regulation, and ownership, and how blockchain technology may reconfigure these elements of the trading landscape. Panelists discussed tokenization as a way to enable the automation and embedding of rule-based systems and compliance measures within a protocol, such as screening for sanctioned wallets at the outset of a transaction, which may encourage more blockchain usage – including from regulated institutions – and thus greater liquidity. Panelists also shared insights on maximal extractable value (MEV).