Dr. Joachim Schwerin is the Principal Economist in the unit responsible for the Digital Transformation of Industry within the Directorate-General Internal Market, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission. He is responsible for developing the policy approach of DG GROW towards the Token Economy and Distributed-Ledger Technologies as well as their applications for industry and SMEs. Moreover, he coordinates initiatives to foster the development of digital skills for the European industrial ecosystems. He regularly contributes to policy development in digital policy fields, including the MiCA Regulation, and the preparation of the digital Euro and blockchain infrastructures for the real economy, such as anti-counterfeiting technologies and the hydrogen value chain.