About Tokenization Policy

The Chatham House / Brookings of Tokenization

Tokenization Policy is the leading independent intelligence source on how governments design, debate, pass, and implement tokenization laws. We are the terminal for legislative counsel, policy advisors, government affairs directors, sovereign wealth fund strategists, and institutional investors who need to understand the political upstream of digital asset regulation.

We cover what happens before compliance becomes an obligation — the bill, the debate, the lobby, the vote, the politics, the power.

What We Cover

Legislation — Every significant digital asset bill across 25+ jurisdictions. From FIT21 to MiCA, from the Swiss DLT Act to Hong Kong’s VATP regime. We track bills from introduction to enactment, mapping the political forces that shape each provision.

Countries — Comprehensive policy profiles of 24 jurisdictions. Not just what the rules are, but why they exist, who wrote them, who lobbied for and against them, and where they are heading.

International Coordination — The G20 crypto roadmap, FSB recommendations, OECD CARF, FATF guidance, IMF frameworks. The multilateral architecture that increasingly constrains what individual jurisdictions can do.

Think Tanks — Who is producing the ideas that policymakers read. Brookings, Atlantic Council, Chatham House, Peterson Institute, and 15 more institutions shaping the intellectual agenda.

Lobbying & Political Economy — The $202M Fairshake PAC, the revolving door between regulators and industry, regulatory capture, and the political economy of who wins and loses when rules are written.

Policymakers — Profiles of the individuals who matter: SEC and CFTC chairs, Treasury secretaries, Congressional committee leaders, ESMA and ECB leadership, FSB and FATF heads.

Our Differentiation

We sit upstream of two sister publications:

• Tokenization Compliance covers following the rules — licensing, AML, KYC obligations.
• Tokenization Governance covers making the rules within industry — DAOs, standards bodies, self-regulation.
• Tokenization Policy covers shaping the rules — legislation, lobbying, political economy, the WHY.

A bill becomes a law becomes a regulation becomes a compliance obligation. We cover step one.

Methodology

Our intelligence is based on primary source legislative documents, official regulatory publications, Congressional records, Hansard, EU legislative history, and proprietary research. We do not speculate. Every factual claim is sourced. Read our full methodology.

The Author

Donovan Vanderbilt is the editor and principal analyst of The Vanderbilt Portfolio AG, a Zurich-based research and intelligence group covering digital asset markets, policy, and regulation.

Contact

• Editorial: [email protected]
• Privacy: [email protected]
• Entity: The Vanderbilt Portfolio AG, Zurich, Switzerland