Filippo Zatti is Associate Professor of Economic Law at the University of Florence (DiSEI), where he co-founded and coordinates the BABEL research unit (Blockchains and Artificial Intelligence for Business, Economics and Law). He teaches Economic Law, Business Law, Innovation and Sustainability, and Blockchain and Economic Law of Digital Assets, and directed the ELDA professional course for three editions. He headed the Florence unit of the PRIN project DeTOKoDE and has advised the Bank of Italy's Milano Hub and the Italian Parliament's Bicameral Commission on Banks and the Financial System. He is an Academic Fellow of the European Banking Institute, an Individual Fellow of the European Law Institute and a member of INATBA's Academic Advisory Board. A former visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh, he has lectured at UCL CBT, Zurich, IALS London, Neuchatel, Valencia and the EUI. His research focuses on the legal nature of digital assets and on central bank digital currencies.