Belarus recently passed the Decree on Digital Economy Development. This law gives significantly more freedom to companies in the special economic zone High Tech Park. It legalizes ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) and smart contacts–automatically executed agreements hosted on the blockchain. It also gets the government out of the IT business and eliminates taxes on buying, selling, and mining cryptocurrencies until 2023.

Viktor Prokopenya started Viaden Media in 2006. After selling the company in 2011, Prokopenya founded an investment company called VP Capital. He is now an investor in the two of the best-performing companies in High Tech Park. Prokopenya played a key role in developing the new law on Digital Economy.