Crypto and Laws

• Australia: Bills Banning Conversion Therapy Enacted in Two Jurisdictions

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 83

  (Sept. 25, 2020) Two Australian jurisdictions recently enacted legislation banning practices that seek to change a person’s sexual or...

• New study says the number of unique crypto asset users has increased 189% in the past year

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 144

  A new report published by the University of Cambridge says the number of crypto assets accounts held by service providers has increased fourfold...

• Italy: New Law Addresses Violence against Health and Socio-Health Professionals

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 144

  (Sept. 25, 2020) Italy recently enacted a law to address violence against health and “ socio-health ” professionals in the performance...

• Gemini lists seven new DeFi tokens, including UNI and YFI

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 112

  Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has added support for seven new decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens. These are Balancer (BAL), Curve...

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• Undeclared Crypto Wallets To Attract Jail Time in Russia

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 106

  Russia’s finance ministry has proposed a new law that will see crypto holders and traders who own undeclared crypto wallets levied with...

• Russian federal authority blacklists Binance’s website

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 114

  Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal authority responsible for the supervision of communications, information technology, and mass media in the...

• Alameda Research mints largest ever quantity of WBTC token for yield farming

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 119

  Crypto trading firm Alameda Research has today minted the largest ever quantity of WBTC, an ERC-20 token backed 1:1 by bitcoin, for yield farming....

• Ethereum scaling startup Optimism releases limited testnet of its Layer-2 solution

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 138

  Optimism, the Ethereum scaling startup that is building a Layer-2 solution using a tool called optimistic rollup, has released the limited...

• Indian exchange BuyUCoin develops a framework to aid crypto regulation

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 112

  Following the unstable regulatory stance of the Indian government concerning cryptocurrencies, BuyUCoin, a digital currency exchange operating in...

• The Interchange: Stop sleeping on stablecoins

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 258

  Quick Take Keeping up with this weeks’ latest developments around cryptodollars This research piece is available...

• Congressional bid for new U.S. crypto exchange oversight draws early plaudits

  3 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 160

  Quick Take Crypto businesses and organizations seem to be supportive of a new effort to regulate crypto exchanges in the U.S. But it’s...

• Mapping out the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 160

  Quick Take Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are tokenized, blockchain-based provably scarce, non-divisible collectible items Advocates of NFTs...

• Tax bitcoin as a currency, Israeli political party proposes

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 179

  New bill proposes to change taxation approach towards bitcoin Bitcoin and crypto assets are subject to 25 percent taxation Another...

• South Korea: Government Orders Striking Doctors-in-Training to Return to Work

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 119

  (Sept. 24, 2020) On August 26, 2020, five days after thousands of doctors in South Korea launched a nationwide strike, the Ministry of Health and...

• Tron links up with BitGo to bring Wrapped BTC, ETH to blockchain network

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 123

  Tron is teaming up with crypto services provider BitGo to create two new tokens, which will be newly-minted Wrapped Ether and Wrapped Bitcoin...

• Russia’s Ministry of Finance proposes higher reporting standards for cryptocurrency

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 109

  The Russian Ministry of Finance is targeting cryptocurrency to crack down on tax evasion and other financial misconduct in a newly proposed...

• The European Commission has proposed a regulatory framework for crypto-assets

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 128

  The news about the European Commission (EC) leaked draft to propose an all-encompassing regulation for crypto-assets has begun playing out....

• European Commission officially proposes regulatory framework for crypto-assets and stablecoins

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 120

  The European Commission has today officially proposed a regulatory framework for crypto-assets and stablecoins after a leaked draft proposal went...

• Crypto transactions must be reported in Russia, failure could be a criminal offense

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 116

  Crypto transactions in Russia that are not reported could constitute a criminal offense per proposal drafted by the Ministry of finance Drafts...

• Private equity firm Valentus plans to raise $50 million via token sale

  4 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 79

  Valentus Capital, a private equity investment firm based in the U.S., is planning to raise $50 million for its first fund via a token sale. The...