
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) reportedly says that nearly a dozen crypto exchanges are on the cusp of getting their trading licenses approved. The SFC’s website showed on June 1st that the 11 applicants, including the Singapore-based Crypto.com and the Hong Kong-based Bullish, are “deemed to be licensed,” according to a Bloomberg report. […]
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All unlicensed crypto exchanges have been kicked out of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong crypto exchange licenses are costing applicants several million dollars, a far cry from the $25 million witnessed a year ago.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Livio Wang, chief operating officer of HashKey Group, said that the crypto exchange licenses are “not necessarily tens of millions of dollars, but certainly tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars [several million in USD].”
He explained that “the costs corresponding to the stage of preparing license review materials are different from those of the operation stage.” He further stated:
The co-founder of Tether (USDT), the world’s largest stablecoin by market cap, reportedly says it’s “inevitable” that China will reverse course and open up to crypto assets. According to a new report by the South China Morning Post, Tether co-founder Brock Pierce says that China – which banned all crypto-related commercial activity years ago – […]
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Regulators across the world are banning Worldcoin, which collects biometric data for a small payment of its native cryptocurrency.
The increasing adoption of Worldcoin, an AI-centric identification project with its own cryptocurrency, is alarming privacy advocates and regulators.
According to the project, over 5 million people have already lined up to stare into a silver sphere the size of a bowling ball and scan their irises.
In addition to receiving online ID verification, users are rewarded 25 WLD, worth about $115.