Inside California's Digital Asset Playbook: Lessons for State Regulators
Hear directly from the practitioner building California DFPI's program - and what it means for oversight in your state.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Key Metrics
5th
Largest economy in the world — California's DFPI oversees more licensed crypto businesses than any other state regulator
9mo
Since California's Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL) went live — one of the most comprehensive state crypto licensing frameworks in the U.S
1mo
Since California's DFAL licensing portal opened - one of the first such licensing arrangements in the United States alongside New York's BitLicense framework.
SESSION AGENDA
What You'll Take Back to Your Desk
- The decisions DFPI got right early — and what they'd do differently with hindsight
- How to sequence your program: what to stand up first when resources are limited
- What firms actually needed from the regulator — and what slowed the process down
- The assumptions that create the most friction on both sides of the licensing process
- What Brynly wished she knew as a crypto company lawyer dealing with state regulators
- The one thing she'd tell state agencies to stop doing — and start doing — right now
- Explore verified profiles for crypto service providers — enriched with licensing, jurisdiction, and KYC-related data — to make data-driven supervision decisions faster
- Monitor entities on a custom watchlist: catch changes in risk score, volume deviations, and exposure to high-risk or illicit activity before your next exam cycle
- Rely on TRM's continuously updated intelligence — an average of 1,000 new off-chain data points added to entity profiles every week
- Real-time, aggregate view of all digital asset activity in your jurisdiction — not reports, live data
- Benchmark any licensee against peers; surface the outliers before they become problems
- Ben Braik-Scivyer demos the RTS state-level dashboard live — using real data from California's digital asset market
FEATURED SPEAKER
Brynly Llyr
Deputy Commissioner for Digital Financial Assets · California DFPI
Brynly Llyr has one of the mostunusual vantage pointsin digital asset regulation today. She's not a career regulator who studied crypto from a distance — she spent years building inside the industry before moving to the other side of the table.
Before joining DFPI, Brynly served as General Counsel at Ripple and Celo, worked on blockchain policy at the World Economic Forum, and held roles at PayPal and eBay. She knows what it looks like from inside a crypto company — the business pressures, the regulatory uncertainty, the genuine effort to comply — and she brings that perspective to how California approaches oversight.
Now she leads DFPI's digital asset program as the state implements the Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL)— one of the most comprehensive state crypto licensing frameworks in the country.
Hear from the practitioner building California's playbook.
May 14, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET | FREE