The governor of California has signed off on a invoice that goals to create a brand new regulatory framework for digital belongings.
Governor Gavin Newsom not too long ago signed Meeting Invoice 39, which establishes the Digital Monetary Belongings Regulation.
The laws requires the state’s Division of Monetary Safety and Innovation (DFPI) to “create a sturdy regulatory framework, together with licensure and enforcement authority, for sure crypto actions.”
The invoice additionally provides the DFPI rulemaking authority over crypto regulation together with an 18-month implementation timeline for a framework.
Says Newsom,
“Ambiguity of sure phrases and the scope of this invoice would require additional refinement in each the regulatory course of and in statute to supply readability to each customers, regulators and companies topic to this new licensure framework.
It’s important that we strike the suitable stability between defending customers from hurt and fostering a accountable innovation and I stay up for working with the writer to attain this.”
Newsom signed an govt order in Might of final yr asking legislators to create a regulatory framework that encourages blockchain innovation whereas defending customers.
The governor stated the order, which he famous builds on President Biden’s crypto-focused govt order, will assist California leverage blockchain know-how for the general public good.
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