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Crypto must get ahead of regulation or risk its reputation

Australia will soon be the first country in the world to review crypto reforms and create a regulatory and licensing framework for the cryptocurrency industry.

Crypto must get ahead of regulation or risk its reputation
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Crypto must get ahead of regulation or risk its reputation
To date, it has been broadly unregulated despite ATO estimates that over 1 million Australians have interacted with the crypto ecosystem in some way since 2018, and findings by the ACCC’s Scamwatch that more than half of financial losses to scams are crypto-related.

The federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers recently announced the process would start with “token mapping” analysis, which will group types of crypto assets based on their technological features and underlying code.

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