PwC and Auditchain Labs AG have joined forces to revolutionize regulatory disclosure automation for crypto-assets and capital market participants. The partnership combines PwC’s expertise in regulatory, legal, and capital markets with Auditchain’s Pacioli.ai, an agentic AI-driven disclosure and validation protocol. This collaboration aims to provide supervisory-grade compliance, starting with MiCAR white paper disclosure in Europe.
The first product of this cooperation is START (Submission, Traceability, Automation, Reporting & Transparency), a platform designed to help organizations prepare, validate, and file regulatory disclosures efficiently. START leverages Pacioli.ai to automate the preparation of financial and non-financial disclosure models, exporting them in structured formats like XBRL and iXBRL. The platform also includes internal and external validation features, ensuring compliance with MiCAR Implementing Technical Standards.
PwC will serve as an external validator, providing independent regulatory review alongside automated checks. Every validation output, version change, and stakeholder approval is logged and time-stamped, creating an evidence pack that cryptographically enforces the audit trail. Dr. Michael Huertas, Partner and Global & European Financial Services Legal Leader at PwC, emphasized that START is designed for defensibility by design, compressing timelines while maintaining high standards of accuracy and traceability.
Pacioli.ai applies agentic AI to regulatory disclosure, recording results on a distributed ledger to produce tamper-evident records. Validators stake collateral against their conclusions, ensuring accuracy through economic consequences rather than manual oversight. Jason Meyers, Lead Architect at Auditchain Labs AG, highlighted the importance of onchain disclosure frameworks for capital markets.