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The FCA’s paper also asks for industry input on its incoming markets admission and disclosures as well as market abuse regime.
The U.K. intends to prohibit public offers of crypto, the Financial Conduct Authority said in its paper on the incoming crypto regime on Monday.
Legislation will be put in place to prohibit public offers of crypto, building on the U.K.’s promotion rules that prevent unregistered crypto firms from reaching out to U.K. clients. Only crypto asset trading platforms and offers qualifying for exemptions may not be subject to this.
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CoinDesk reached out to the Treasury for input on whether or not this only applies to regulated companies as the FCA could not comment on this.
The paper asks for industry input on its market admission and disclosures as well as market abuse regime and is one of many more papers to come from the regulator as it prepares for its crypto regime.
The FCA is the U.K.’s regulator in charge of overseeing financial activities in the country including crypto. It has been watching over the sector and seeing how it will comply with its money laundering rules since 2020 but it plans to put in place a new regime in 2026 following the implementation of draft regulation that is coming out next year.
It will need industry feedback on how it can ensure consumers have the necessary information to make informed decisions as well as on their plans to reduce fraud via the market abuse regime.
A simple executive order issued on Jan. 20 would pave the way for the crypto sector’s resurgence in the U.S.
Dear President Elect Trump,
As the co-head of a major law firm’s digital assets practice, I am hopeful that your nominee to chair the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) will make much-needed (and long-overdue) reforms to the way the SEC approaches crypto market regulation in the United States.
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However, as you know, it will take some time for your nominee to be confirmed as SEC chair, and for him to formulate new SEC guidance and rules for the crypto industry. Bearing that in mind, I write respectfully to propose an Executive Order that you can issue—on Day One of your Presidency—to help restore American leadership in the burgeoning crypto financial system.
While other countries have raced to create regulatory clarity for crypto entrepreneurship to thrive, U.S. lawmakers and regulators have thus far refused to mold and modernize decades-old rules that were never meant to apply to this groundbreaking technology, leaving U.S. market participants adrift in a sea of regulatory ambiguity. All the while, the SEC under its current chair, Gary Gensler, has teed up case-after-case against crypto companies, projects and founders based on allegations that they violated these outmoded and anachronistic requirements, even where there are no allegations of fraud or actual harm to investors.
It should be no surprise that this regulation-by-enforcement approach has chased many of the leading innovators and businesses in the digital assets sector offshore, jeopardizing America’s leadership position in the global economy.
How to find our way again
The good news is that it’s not too late to turn things around. The current moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make America the crypto capital of the world, and harness the transformative promise that digital assets and blockchain technology hold for our country. While there are many legislative, regulatory and tax reforms that will be needed to seize this opportunity, there is one immediate action you can take—on Day One of your Presidency—to pave the way for the crypto sector’s resurgence in America.
You can issue an Executive Order on January 20 directing all federal agencies to:
1. Immediately stay all investigations, enforcement actions and prosecutions of crypto companies, projects and founders unless they involve credible allegations of (a) acts of fraud or other intentional misconduct that harms investors or other victims, or (b) conduct that threatens our national security.
2. Provide a written report to the Office of the President within 180 days detailing why the relevant agency should not immediately terminate such proceedings.
3. Promptly terminate all investigations, enforcement actions, or prosecutions of crypto companies, projects or founders that do not warrant continued prosecution.
What the proposed executive order would accomplish
This proposed Executive Order would be vitally important to undo the chilling effect on the digital assets industry that has been caused by the explosion in recent years of government enforcement litigation, including actions brought against good actors who at most did not follow outdated and inapplicable rules without causing harm to a single investor. The SEC, most notably, has extracted billions of dollars in disgorgement—a financial penalty which, several courts have held, should be used only in cases where an alleged violation of law caused pecuniary harm to victims—in victimless crypto enforcement lawsuits.
Many of these lawsuits have sought to impose draconian sanctions against legitimate crypto market participants that are providing the digital infrastructure needed for these markets to flourish in the United States. The time has come to rethink this blunderbuss approach to enforcement. The proposed Executive Order can achieve this on Day One of your Presidency.
To be clear, you have ample authority to do this. Article II of the Constitution gives the President the power to unilaterally issue such Executive Orders without legislation or regulatory rulemaking. The Justice Department’s own Office of Legal Counsel has opined that Article II empowers the President to compel all federal agencies—including independent regulatory agencies such as the SEC—to comply with executive orders, such as the one proposed here, that would apply generally to all Executive Branch agencies.
You can make America the center of the global crypto economy. The proposed Executive Order can be your first step, on Day One of your Presidency, towards achieving that goal.
Note: The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of CoinDesk, Inc. or its owners and affiliates.
Exodus will list under its current ticker on NYSE American at the open of trading on Dec. 18
Crypto wallet company Exodus Movement (EXOD) has been approved to list on the NYSE American, the New York Stock Exchange’s sibling market.
Exodus, which will be listed under its current ticker at the open of trading on Dec. 18, was originally meant to be listed on NYSE American in May, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it was still reviewing the company’s registration.
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The approval of Exodus’ uplist may be a sign of a change in the regulatory sentiment toward cryptocurrency following President-elect Trump’s victory in November’s election with the promise of running a pro-crypto administration.
“We expect this uplisting will raise Exodus’ corporate profile, while also enhancing liquidity for our current and future shareholders,” CEO of Exodus JP Richardson said.
Exodus stock, currently listed on the OTC Markets (OTCQX), rose as much as 10.5% before pairing all of thegains.
The Province home to Vancouver – which is exploring becoming a bitcoin-friendly city – maintains a ban on mining to preserve power for clean energy initiatives/
While Vancouver’s City Council has passed a motion to explore becoming a ‘bitcoin-friendly city’, British Columbia still has a province-wide ban on mining BTC until December 2025.
B.C.’s bitcoin mining ban began in December 2022 to address energy concerns, and it faced a legal challenge from Conifex Timber, which the B.C. Supreme Court upheld in early 2024, citing the policy’s reasonableness and alignment with public utility regulations.
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BC Hydro, the largest electricity utility in the province, relies heavily on hydroelectric power, which generates over 90% of its electricity.
Vancouver’s motion – introduced to the council by Mayor Ken Sim – focuses on bitcoin’s financial benefits and mentions the benefits of bitcoin mining, but it can’t influence mining because of electricity regulation and BC Hydro’s operations fall under provincial jurisdiction.
“The Province still has a ban on cryptocurrency mining and is continuing its work towards a permanent cryptocurrency mining policy,” a spokesperson for BC Hydro said.
Earlier this year, B.C.’s legislature passed an updated version of the Energy Statutes Amendment Act, which was first drafted following B.C. Hydro’s temporary suspension of bitcoin mining connections to the provincial grid.
The updated Act specifically enables the provincial government to bypass the BC Utilities Commission, the Provincial electricity regulator, giving it direct authority to regulate electricity service specifically for crypto.
Conifex Timber, which had bitcoin mining farms in the province scheduled for connection to the grid, argued in court that these conditions were “unduly discriminatory and unreasonable,” but ultimately, a Provincial judge disagreed.
“One question arising out of the move towards regulating electricity with respect to crypto-mining projects is whether the Province could begin to regulate the availability of electricity for other industries in a similar manner,” lawyers at McCarthy Tetrault, a Canadian law firm, wrote in a May 2024 post.
During the debate over the updated Act, lawyers from McCarthy Tetrault noted that the leader of the provincial Green Party argued in the legislature that Liquified Natural Gas and emerging technologies like AI should face similar energy regulations as bitcoin mining due to, what the party views as their high energy use and limited economic benefits.
Local bitcoin mining bans are not unique. New York State has a moratorium, with an exception for renewable energy. However, some states, like Arkansas and Montana, have bills that protect bitcoin miners from what they call “discrimination.”
Pennsylvania recently scrapped its mining ban to advance other energy conservation bills.
The regulator is releasing final guidance to help member states get ready for MiCA which is set to take effect imminently, as some nations are trailing behind.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its final guidance on Tuesday to help member states implement the impending rules.
ESMA published its final report on reverse solicitation, systems, what crypto may constitute as a financial instrument and draft technical standards on market abuse prevention.
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The European Union’s Markets in Crypto Asset (MiCA) rules – bespoke rules for the crypto sector – are meant to come into force by December 30 across the bloc of 27 nations. But some countries are yet to put in place legislation to implement MiCA.
Portugal’s central bank even told CoinDesk on Monday that it is yet to figure out which national competent authority will be responsible for the rules since legislation has not passed.
A part of what caused delays for national competent authorities was the short period between ESMA releasing its final technical standards in October and the implementation date, industry trade associations told CoinDesk.
“Looking ahead, as the transitional period progresses, we will continue to provide guidance and work with all [National Competent Authorities] NCAs to ensure the smooth implementation of MiCA and to support a level playing field through supervisory convergence actions,” Verena Ross, ESMA Chair, said.
Nigeria has been clamping down on illegal activity regarding crypto in the country.
Nigeria arrested 792 people following a raid at a building where people allegedly committed crypto-related scams, Reuters reported on Monday.
The suspects would lure victims, typically from America and Europe, with romantic offers before asking them to hand over money for fake crypto investments, the report said.
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The people, who included Chinese and Filipino nationals, were detained last week at a seven-floor building in Lagos, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren told Reuters.
“Once the Nigerians are able to win the confidence of would-be victims, the foreigners would take over the actual task of defrauding the victims,” he said.
Nigeria has been clamping down on illegal activity related to crypto. At one point it was reported that the country had blocked several exchanges from operating within its borders. More recently the country has been in an almost year-long legal dispute with Binance and its executives over alleged money laundering and tax evasion charges.
CoinDesk reached out to Nigeria’s Economic Financial Crimes Commission for a comment.
OFAC says a front company in the UAE had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had shut down a North Korean money laundering network that used crypto to clean millions of dollars for the hermit kingdom, a global leader in crypto crime.
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A front company in the UAE called Green Alpine Trading, LLC, had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea, according to a press release by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The U.S. government’s sanctions wing stuck that company on its blacklist as well as two Chinese nationals who had been participating in the network since 2022.
The United Arab Emirates partnered in the takedown, according to the press release. It is not clear what’s become of the two now-sanctioned Chinese nationals, Lu Huaying and Zhang Jian. They worked in cahoots with DPRK “agent” Sim Hyon Sop, the press release said.
North Korea is among the most aggressive state actors to target the crypto industry. Its agents have allegedly stolen billions of dollars worth of crypto to fund the country’s nuclear weapons program. But making digital cash useful, requires its conversion into fiat.
Green Alpine may have played a small part in that web. The Treasury press release didn’t say what money it laundered, beyond that it was from “illicit revenue generation schemes.”
Read more: How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
Senator Tim Scott said the Senate will tackle crypto bills, and the incoming chair of the House Financial Services Committee said he hopes to pass them in 2025.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The crypto industry got a promise for action Tuesday from the Republican U.S. lawmakers who will have the authority to move digital assets legislation, with key members of the Senate and House of Representatives saying the sector will finally get what it’s awaited for years.
The incoming Republican chair of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Senator Tim Scott, and his counterpart on the House Financial Services Committee, Representative French Hill, were welcomed with enthusiasm by a Blockchain Association crowd in Washington, in sharp contrast to the uncertain tone of the same event last year. The two lawmakers said at the policy event that both chambers of Congress and the administration of President-elect Donald Trump will all be pulling in the same direction to make legislation happen.
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The two starting points, they said, will be the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) — the bill to establish comprehensive crypto market guardrails that cleared the House this year by a wide bipartisan margin — and a stablecoin bill that was close to a bipartisan deal but ground to a halt over a few sticking points around the role of the federal and state governments.
“Congress needs to do its job, find a compromise and put things right,” Hill said, suggesting his aim is to get passage of crypto market-structure legislation — something “like FIT21” — in the first few months of the session.
That’s a familiar message from the House side of Congress, but it’s the Senate that had long been the source of resistance. Senator Scott will soon arrive in his committee chairmanship with a stark reversal of Democrat predecessor Senator Sherrod Brown’s crypto suspicion.
“In my opinion, it is the next wonder of the world,” he said, also promising that his panel would have a crypto offshoot. “I’m going to be the chairman that creates a digital assets subcommittee for the first time.”
Senator Brown, the current chairman, lost his Ohio Senate race in November, overcome by Republican Bernie Moreno, a blockchain businessman. Brown had been a key constraint to crypto progress in the Senate, though the new top Democrat of the committee will be Senator Elizabeth Warren, the progressive firebrand from Massachusetts, who is expected to loudly criticize crypto from the sidelines in the next couple of years.
Scott acknowledged, “She’s very good at what she does.”
But he said, “I think the future’s incredibly bright,” and he said he’s already started conversations on crypto policy.
Representative French Hill (right), the next chair of the House Financial Services Committee, predicted crypto legislation in 2025. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Hill argued that crypto legislation can’t properly happen without wide bipartisan support.
“To win, ultimately, you need 60 votes in the Senate,” he noted. “You need to build consensus.”
Most Republicans have drifted into the crypto camp over the years, a trend that accelerated since last year. But some Democrats — often younger lawmakers — have joined them, culminating in 71 Democrat votes for FIT21 in the House. But the Senate will be closely divided, with 53 Republicans to 47 Democrats, so both parties must be involved in any major initiative.
SEC’s role
Also at the Blockchain Association Policy Summit on Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s two Republican commissioners — Mark Uyeda and Hester Peirce — spoke about the changes they expect at the agency next year.
Uyeda criticized the agency’s crypto accounting standard, the controversial Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (SAB 121), which he said had “very, very wide-ranging ramifications” for a policy that didn’t go through the proper channels.
Peirce said that while the regulator awaits new digital assets laws from Congress, “we can say some of this stuff is just outside our jurisdiction.”
“We can certainly work closely with the CFTC,” she said. “We stand ready to work on things once that’s a possibility. … I think there are a lot of places for us to help.”
Countries like the Netherlands are preparing for MiCA implementation.
ZBD, a payment platform powered by the Bitcoin Lightning network, said the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) approved its application for a European Union MiCA license.
When MiCA takes effect and the license is granted on Dec. 30, ZBD will be able to offer a wide range of crypto custody and crypto exchange services throughout the trading bloc, the company, formerly known as Zebedee, told CoinDesk on Wednesday.
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The company first submitted the application in April. The list of applicants receiving a license will be visible on the AFM’s website once MiCA kicks in, the regulator said.
Countries like the Netherlands are among the nations in the EU that have been getting companies ready for MiCA to take full force. Many others have yet to pass the required legislation for MiCA to take effect in their jurisdictions.
COPA claims Wright’s attempt to sue for intellectual property rights related to bitcoin violate a July court order.
Craig Wright, who falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, is in court again.
This time, the Crypto Open Patent Alliances is arguing Wright’s attempt to sue for 900 million pounds ($1.1 billion) over intellectual property rights related to the Bitcoin system in October amounts to contempt of court after a judge ruled in March that he was barred from pursuing proceedings related to his claim to be Nakamoto.
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The two-day trial is due to end later Thursday and COPA, whose backers include Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), is seeking a prison sentence.
“COPA proposes an order committing Dr Wright for an initial term of 18 months and a further term of six months in the event that he does not mitigate his contempt by promptly discontinuing the claims which breach the order,” COPA set out in its skeleton argument, court documents show.
In March, Justice James Mellor ruled that Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto. Mellor then issued a court order preventing Wright from pursuing proceedings in the U.K. and other jurisdictions related to the claim.
“Dr. Wright is perfectly capable, once the dust has settled, of ramping up his public pronouncements again,” Mellor wrote at the time.
Prior to COPA’s victory, Wright had brought several court cases against the bitcoin community around the bitcoin whitepaper, libel suits as well as claims against developers.
