Cryptocurrency Regulation News

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted a virtual currency license to Bitstamp USA Inc., a subsidiary of Bitstamp Ltd., authorizing the company to offer crypto trading services in the state of New York. The…

Image: Fred Wilson, by JD Lasica, via Flickr In his annual post about the new year ahead, prominent venture capitalist and Union Square Ventures (USV) co-founder Fred Wilson predicts cryptocurrencies will enter a “new bullish phase”…

Image: Belarus flag, Max Pixel Building on its first Decree No. 8 On the Development of the Digital Economy (December 2017), special economic zone the Belarus High Technologies Park (HTP) has announced the establishment of additional…

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group (GSX Group), has announced that it has been granted a full license as a provider of distributed ledger technology…

Image: Bitcoin, Pixabay The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted its first authorization to a cryptocurrency company. Crypto Fund AG, a subsidiary of Crypto Finance AG, has become the country’s first crypto…

Five years after the closure of the Silk Road, bitcoin has changed dramatically. No longer does society see it as an underground currency used by addicts, dealers and pornographers. Today it is the third pillar of futurism alongside…

Crypto exchange Poloniex announced on September 18, 2018, that it had started the process of delisting eight assets from its trading platform. The affected tokens are BTCD (Bitcoin Dark), BTM (Bitmark), EMC2 (Einsteinium), GRC (GridCoin),…

MPs on the U.K.’s Treasury Select Committee have said that the crypto industry is the “wild west” and that investors are left facing “numerous risks” due to the unregulated environment. According to Conservative MP Nicky Morgan, chair of…

Ethereum, Pixabay The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has authorized Gemini Trust Company LLC, the cryptocurrency exchange platform founded by the Winklevoss brothers, and Paxos Trust Company LLC, formerly itBit, to…