Regulation

The push to support crypto is gaining traction in Hong Kong as some banks are already pledging support to the industry. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is truly doubling down on its efforts to provide full support to the digital currency ecosystem with its recent circular to banks operating on the island. In the circular, the HKMA said banks should support exchanges or crypto platforms that have received the right license to operate in the country. The support will notably be...

XRP – the native digital token of crypto firm Ripple – experienced a sharp price hike in late March after several investors and fans felt they had reason to believe Ripple could potentially win its ongoing court case with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Could Ripple Beat the SEC? The SEC has made a habit out of attacking virtually every single digital currency company over the last six or seven years. The agency is going after every firm that took part in...

Jeremy Allaire – CEO of Circle Internet Financial Ltd. – argued that US investors could soon relocate due to the lack of proper regulations and the growing banking crisis. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March caused severe issues for the stablecoin issuer. USDC de-pegged from its $1 fixed valuation to as low as $0.87 after Circle revealed a massive $3.3 billion exposure to the financial institution. However, it coped with the problem, assuring that investors...

With Matt Haney taking a very bold step that is backed by the industry, seeing DAOs function as businesses will be a matter of time. A California lawmaker Matt Haney has introduced Assembly Bill 1229 which seeks to re-engineer and expand the state’s corporate to include Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO). As reported by Decrypt, the proposed Bill, if passed, will enable DAOs, blockchain networks and smart contracts to register as businesses in the state. This registration will...

The crypto community has left no stone unturned in lambasting the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and, more importantly, its Chief Gary Gensler. The latter’s actions were dissented by members of his own agency. Gensler even received political pushback for his actions. But the SEC boss continued to defend the crackdown on digital assets markets, saying he had never seen an industry so routinely break securities laws. SEC Approach of Regulation by Enforcement As...

The US-based cryptocurrency exchange – Coinbase – received approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority to operate on the island. It also intends to establish an offshore derivatives marketplace in the region as soon as next week. CEO Brian Armstong recently said his entity could relocate to other countries if the American watchdogs do not impose an appropriate regulatory framework on the digital asset sector. Next Stop: Bermuda? Coinbase announced in a blog post that it had...

While the EU is in the final stages of making MiCA a reality and hence fosters a more defined market participation, the industry has been fussing around the laid-back approach of the US in relation to floating similar rules. The European Union (EU) has now broken the record of being the first region in the world to pass the most comprehensive regulations to guide the broader nascent digital currency ecosystem. The recent approval came from the EU Parliament who voted for the bill by a...

Coinbase received its license to operate in Bermuda on April 19th. The action was taken to keep up with the company’s campaign for “global scale to go broad and deep”. Coinbase plans to launch a coastal derivatives exchange in the next week, after it acquired a license to function in Bermuda from the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Coinbase applauded Bermuda as an excessively reputed and professional financial regulator in its announcement. Coinbase had long been looking to inaugurate an...

Senators in the U.S. say if Congress is going to get serious about establishing crypto regulations, they need to be bipartisan. This means both democrats and republicans need to agree on how the rules should play out and what they should accomplish. Congress Needs to Find Common Ground Over the last six years, one can easily say that both sides of the political spectrum have been at war with each other. It’s an ugly sight, in many ways. Both democrats and republicans are...

Coinbase is on the brink of legal warfare with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach long-awaited clarity on how federal securities laws apply to the crypto industry, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.  Should the regulator situation not improve, the executive said the exchange would consider relocating away from the United States.  Will Coinbase Move Abroad? In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Armstrong called out “certain regulators” for taking a...