Hong Kong Regulator Weighs Crypto Capital Rules
📋 Key Facts ✓ Hong Kong Insurance Authority is proposing new capital rules. ✓ Rules include risk charges on crypto assets. ...
Dec 22The Blockeconomics
📋 Key Facts ✓ Hong Kong Insurance Authority is proposing new capital rules. ✓ Rules include risk charges on crypto assets. ...
Hong Kong’s FSTB and SFC will introduce licensing requirements for virtual asset dealing and custody firms, expanding the city’s policy push that already includes a stablecoin licensing blueprint and ...
The SEC is set to continue last year’s pro-crypto rulemaking, as the commission and other federal agencies are controlled solely by Republicans....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Caroline Pham served as acting chair of the CFTC. ✓ Monday marked Caroline Pham's last day at the regulator. ...
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Wu Blockchain reported the policy change listing Real-World Asset tokenization alongside stablecoins, ”air coins,” and crypto mining as illegal activities in China....
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The Global Sanctions Inflation Index estimated there were just under 80,000 total sanctioned entities and persons globally as of May 2025....
Discounts and bundle deals were offered to mining operators, as 2025 ends on a bad note for the crypto market and the mining industry....
Democratic leaders on key committees considering crypto market structure legislation are reportedly drawing a line in the sand over elected officials profiting off the industry....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Northern Data, backed by Tether, sold its bitcoin mining arm to companies run by Tether executives. ✓ The sale happened j...
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