Evgeny Skigin is an entrepreneur, investor based in Switzerland. As an industry commentator, his work sits at the intersection of two emerging sectors with a shared logic: the decentralization of things the world depends on. Over the past decade, he has applied that thesis to cryptocurrency infrastructure and industrial hemp — two industries that, in his view, are both fundamentally about redistributing control over essential resources from concentrated intermediaries to more open, resilient networks. Skigin founded Bitclear, a blockchain infrastructure venture originally established in Malta before being incorporated in Liechtenstein — one of the first jurisdictions in the world to pass comprehensive blockchain-specific legislation through its Token and Trusted Technology Service Prov...