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United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce has formally proposed safe harbor for token projects.After initially floating the idea in August 2019, Peirce has now formally presented a regulatory vision that would create a safe harbor for projects that raise funds to build decentralized networks.Peirce proposes
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to give legitimate crypto projects a shot at success without running afoul of U.S. securities laws.The two-year official at the Securities and Exchange Commission – nicknamed “CryptoMom” by the blockchain community – has formally proposed a safe harbor for token projects. It would give them
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The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) — the country’s financial regulator — proposed lowering the leverage rate limit of cryptocurrency margin trading from 4x to 2x.The FSA announced the proposed measure on Jan. 14 in a cabinet office ordinance — an official order that is issued along with a
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to give the Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) more powers in regulating certain licensed entities, including cryptocurrency startups.Cuomo presented his 2020 "state of the state" plan on Wednesday, publishing a 321-page list of proposals including a new look at exemptions that currently exist for
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The European Central Bank (ECB) remains open to the idea of a digital euro equivalent but would want to stop citizens holding too much of it. That was the conclusion of a fresh working paper on so-called central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by Ulrich Bindseil, the bank’s Director General of
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Singapore’s central bank plans to bring bitcoin and other similar cryptocurrency futures traded on approved exchanges under its regulation in response to interest from international institutional investors, it said today.Market watchdogs worldwide have been debating whether and how they should regulate the cryptocurrency industry. Many have focused their attention initially
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state's de facto central bank, may soon allow cryptocurrency-based derivatives to be traded on regulated platforms. Source
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The NAC argued that blockchain could improve the speed of payouts communities rely on in the wake of natural disasters. Source
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Iran has introduced a new policy, proposing that anyone who shares information about illegal and unauthorized mining of cryptocurrency in the country will receive a bounty. This was surfaced following the country’s new introduced regulations regarding the calculation of price of electricity that is utilized by crypto miners.Iran’s Energy Ministry’s
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ING announced that researchers at the financial services firm have solved a security and privacy issue on blockchain software firm R3’s Corda blockchain.On Oct. 23, ING’s distributed ledger technology team presented its white paper, called “Solutions for the Corda security and privacy trade-off: having your cake and eating it,”
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