Offchain Luxembourg Weekly Spotlight: Meet Sonia!

⭐ OffChain Luxembourg Weekly Spotlight: meet Sonia! 🧡

1. Could you share a bit about your background and current focus?

I am a qualified lawyer and have practiced corporate and tax law for 15 years in various jurisdictions. In fact, since I left my home country (France), my path led me to Luxembourg after a couple of stops (and many adventures) in Malta and the Channel Islands where I got the chance to provide tax advice to a wide range of clients and industries from the maritime company to the crypto-assets exchange platform.
Having had settled in Luxembourg I was looking forward to meeting like-minded forward-thinking people and bring my experience of crypto-assets primarily gained in Malta, from a regulatory and tax perspective. Malta having implemented a legal framework prior to the publication of MICAR, I had the opportunity to assist with tax analyses of many whitepapers VASP licence application.
Now that I am getting acquainted with Luxembourg’s financial services industry, I am excited not only witness but also actively participate in the implementation of MICAR, taking into account the specificities of Luxembourg financial services environment and stakeholders.

1. What inspired you to join OffChain, and what do you value most about it?

I value the friendly and mentally stimulating community that Offchain is building.
The variety of Offchain members’ backgrounds, skills and expertise is a perfect blockchain technology incubator. Indeed, growing ideas through collaboration is at the core of Offchain’s strategy and I do believe that many more forward-thinking blockchain projects will come to life in the near future, starting with the widespread use of the already launched OffChain Luxembourg Token (OCLT).

1. Beyond blockchain, what personal passion or pursuit fuels your creativity?

Although I am a tax lawyer, I am also an artist at heart. I do believe that having an aesthetic sense is a necessary basis to build great and timeless objects, of any kind. I believe that bringing beauty into this world is how great civilisations have developed and left a lasting footprint on Earth. Far be it from me to step on Marie-Claude Pietragalla’s toes, bit I have danced my whole life. Dancing is freeing and musicality perception is a fun game to play. This helps me thinking outside the box at home and at work.

1. Where do you see OffChain heading in the future, and what excites you most?

I believe OffChain will thrive as the main channel that direct information and knowledge to the general public and businesses.
Having already started assisting local business implementing crypto-payments, this is only the beginning of the path towards democratisation of the actual use of crypto-assets. In the future I see OffChain being at the forefront of a widened use of the blockchain technology in Luxembourg. I am looking forward to all opportunities that lie ahead and making them happen.