Binance drar sig ur Kanada, med hänvisning till regulatoriska bekymmer
- Den ledande kryptobörsen Binance har meddelat att den kommer att avveckla verksamheten i Kanada på grund av regulatoriska problem.
- The exchange said that it is “confident” that it will re-enter the Canadian market at a later date in the near future.
- De kanadensiska värdepappersadministratörerna (CSA) utfärdade nya kryptoregler och gav företag en 30-dagarsperiod att följa.
- Decentraliserad börs dYdX och blockchain-företaget Paxos meddelade också sina respektive uttag från Kanada.
- Kryptobörsen Gemini uppgav att den hade undertecknat ett förhandsregistreringsåtagande med OSC och planerar att bli reglerad i Kanada.
The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, continues its attempts to expand operations worldwide and boost its trading volume amid the market slump. Interestingly, major economies around the globe are still hesitant when it comes to licensing crypto companies following the multi-billion dollar collapse of crypto trading platform FTX. As per a new announcement, the exchange founded by Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ in the crypto industry, will be withdrawing operations from Canada due to the country’s new crypto rules.
Kanada implementerade nyligen nya regler angående kryptotillgångar, och som ett resultat avslutar många kryptoföretag nu verksamheten i landet på grund av olämpliga regulatoriska förhållanden. Binance meddelat on May 12 that it will be leaving Canada via its official Twitter account and called its withdrawal “proactive” as the new rules haunt crypto firms in the world’s second-largest country by total area.
On Feb. 22, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued new rules for crypto firms that seek registration in the country. The new rules require these companies and crypto exchanges to sign pre-registration undertakings (PRUs), which will be legally binding documents. Only after signing PRUs can exchanges be authorized in the country, and thereafter, they will report to their principal regulatory body, which will oversee the company’s compliance process.
CSA förklarade that crypto trading platforms or CTPs “are prohibited from permitting Canadian clients to enter into crypto contracts to buy and sell any crypto asset that is itself a security and/or a derivative. […] Staff are of the view that Fiat-Backed Crypto Assets generally meet the definition of ‘security’ and/or would meet the definition of ‘derivative’ in several jurisdictions.”
Å andra sidan gjorde Binance en förhandsregistrering företag, enligt en rapport från Bloomberg, men i Twitter-inlägget förklarade det:
“Unfortunately, new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits provided to crypto exchanges makes the Canada market no longer tenable for Binance at this time. We put off this decision as long as we could to explore other reasonable avenues to protect our Canadian users, but it has become apparent that there are none.”
I februari gav CSA en 30-dagarsperiod för de befintliga företag som är verksamma i Kanada att underteckna PRU:erna och registrera sig hos sina respektive tillsynsmyndigheter. De nya reglerna definierade också stablecoins som värdepapper.
The customers of the leading crypto exchange that are based in Canada were sent emails regarding the future steps that they need to follow. Binance further added that it is “confident” that it will “someday return to the market when Canadian users once again have the freedom to access a broader suite of digital assets.”
Det är viktigt att nämna här att nyligen populärt decentraliserat utbyte dYdX meddelade också att man kommer att avveckla sin verksamhet i Kanada på grund av regulatoriska frågor. Dessutom blockchain-infrastrukturplattform Paxos bekräftade också sitt tillbakadragande from the region and planned to “re-enter the Canadian market in cooperation with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) at a future date.”
Tvärtom meddelade den framstående kryptobörsen Gemini, som nyligen etablerade ett regionalt nav i Gurgaon, Indien, att det hade lämnat in ett åtagande om förhandsregistrering med Ontario Securities Commission och har planer på att bli licensierad i regionen.