Analysis

February 15, 2022

Europe’s crypto capital might not be where you expect

The world’s most sophisticated investors are piling in.


Josipa Majic

5 min read

Montenegro could be a dark horse for cryptocurrency regulation. Credit: Faruk Kaymak on Unsplash.

The tiny Swiss town of Zug is the perhaps unlikely home to Europe’s “crypto valley”: almost 1,000 crypto startups are based in Switzerland, and half of them are in Zug.

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Montenegro could be a dark horse for cryptocurrency regulation. Credit: Faruk Kaymak/Unsplash
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