The EU brings crypto-assets, crypto-assets issuers and crypto-asset service providers under a regulatory framework. Setting an EU level legal framework for this sector for the first time, the Council has adopted a regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA). MiCA will protect investors by increasing transparency and putting in place a comprehensive framework for issuers and service providers including […]
Seen from a legal perspective, when is a non-fungible token just a harmless representation of an asset, and when is it about to become something else that might catch the attention of regulatory authorities and put demands and restrictions on the parties involved in the NFT? This is a question that more token issuers in […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the crypto asset trading platform beaxy.com (the Beaxy Platform) and its executives for failing to register as a national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency. The SEC also charged the founder of the platform, Artak Hamazaspyan, and a company he controlled, Beaxy Digital, Ltd., with raising $8 million in […]
