Thursday, April 18, 2024
Home > Classification

Solana, Polygon challenge US SEC’s classification of SOL and MATIC as securities

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The Solana Foundation and Polygon Labs are among the latest entities to push back against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) classification of their respective tokens as securities. Solana Foundation and Polygon Labs push back against

Read More

CFTC calls ETH a commodity in Binance suit, highlighting the complexity of classification

The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against Binance on March 27 for violations of the Commodities Exchange Act and CFTC regulations. Those violations included transactions with Ether (ETH), according to the suit. This claim, at first glance, touched on a notable point of contention between the

Read More

Crypto Classification Seeks to Make Industry More Welcoming to TradFi Participants

The Global Crypto Classification Standard, for example, categorizes assets on three levels. The first deals with networks and protocols, be they cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Monero, etc), smart contract platforms (for example, Ethereum, Solana), decentralized apps (such as Aave, Uniswap) and so on. The second groups assets by industry and sector, including

Read More

Australia introduces classification for crypto assets

Following the global regulatory race, Australia opened the public consultation on its own taxonomy of crypto assets. The national regulators propose to distinguish four major types of products related to the crypto industry. On Feb. 3, the Australian Treasury released a consultation paper on “Token Mapping,” announcing it as a foundational

Read More

CoinDesk Indices Announces New Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS)

While some early efforts exist to classify digital assets by their use cases, the complexity has rapidly grown, so a hierarchical structure is needed to help investors navigate digital assets at different granularity levels. DACS provides a non-ambiguous structure throughout its hierarchy – meaning each digital asset is only assigned

Read More