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not all cryptos are about that. many others put decentralisation first and are OK with transparency. but the latter, of course, clashes with the idea of a nation state trying to become _the_ crypto nation.

I think the two killer apps for crypto are money laundering and tax evasion which are two core competencies of the Swiss economy so their moves here are not surprise.

The biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is actually very transparent and its biggest concern is being decentralized and censorship resistant, so that governments can't have direct control over its inflation or are able to censor transactions (for example to Wikileaks, which happens with USD)