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South Korea tightens crypto rules ahead of institutional market entry
21.5.2025
South Korea is tightening rules around digital asset transactions as it prepares to allow institutional players into its crypto market, introducing new guidelines for nonprofit crypto sales and stricter listing standards for exchanges.On May 20, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South...
South Korea tightens crypto rules ahead of institutional market entry
21.5.2025
South Korea is tightening rules around digital asset transactions as it prepares to allow institutional players into its crypto market, introducing new guidelines for nonprofit crypto sales and stricter listing standards for exchanges.On May 20, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South...
Telegram Wallet enforces new KYC rules, switches provider
30.5.2024
Before the KYC change, Telegram Wallet users did not have to provide any personal information to use the default version of the wallet
KuCoin Exchange Named the Best Cryptocurrency App of 2022: Everything You Need to Know
26.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Leading personal financial services’ evaluator, the Ascent, named KuCoin crypto exchange the best cryptocurrency app of 2022. The Ascent is a flagship product of world-renowned private financial and investing advice company, The Motley Fool. Ascent rated KuCoin Exchange based...
India to Impose Ban on Crypto Payments, Deadline for Declaring Crypto Assets, KYC Rules: Report
8.12.2021
The Indian government has reportedly proposed banning the use of cryptocurrency for payments and setting a deadline for investors to declare their crypto holdings. Violators may be arrested without a warrant and held without bail. In addition, the crypto bill may call for a uniform...
Bybit crypto exchange to impose KYC rules
6.7.2021
The world’s fifth-largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchange is implementing KYC rules to improve security compliance
Dutch Bitcoin Exchange Files Preliminary Injunction to Suspend Wallet Verification Rule Enacted by the Netherlands
29.1.2021
A Dutch bitcoin (BTC) exchange has filed a preliminary injunction at a court in Rotterdam to suspend the central bank’s additional wallet-verification requirements. Bitonic seeks to challenge the new rules enacted by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) on Sept. 21, 2020. Dutch Exchange Argues...
ShapeShift Is Going Full DeFi to Lose KYC Rules
6.1.2021
Erik Voorhees’ ShapeShift is morphing into a decentralized exchange (DEX). It's losing the KYC restrictions at the same time
Study: Exchanges Accepted $1.3 Billion in Bitcoin Stemming from ‘High-Risk Addresses’
16.7.2020
A recently published report from the research and analysis firm Peckshield indicates that during the last two quarters of 2020, cryptocurrency exchanges accepted 147,000 BTC ($1.3 billion) from high-risk addresses. During the last few years, blockchain research and surveillance firms have been...