英国承诺加密货币监管框架草案将于明年初准备就绪

财政部经济部长 Tulip Siddiq 表示，这些法规将涵盖稳定币和质押服务，以及加密货币本身。

UK to Present Draft Crypto Asset Regulatory Framework Early 2024

英国将于 2024 年初提出加密资产监管框架草案

A draft regulatory framework for crypto assets will be ready in the United Kingdom early next year, a Treasury official promised at City & Financial Global’s Tokenisation Summit in London on Nov. 21.

一位财政部官员在 11 月 21 日于伦敦举行的 City & Financial Global 代币化峰会上承诺，英国将于明年初准备好加密资产监管框架草案。

Some regulations were expected last summer, but a general election overturned those plans along with the Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Now, Keir Starmer’s Labour government, which took office on July 5, 2024, will present the regulations.

去年夏天预计会出台一些规定，但大选与首相里希·苏纳克(Rishi Sunak)领导的保守党政府一起推翻了这些计划。现在，于 2024 年 7 月 5 日上任的基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 领导的工党政府将提出这些规定。

A comprehensive framework

全面的框架

Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq said the regulations would cover stablecoins and staking services, as well as cryptocurrency itself, Bloomberg reports.

据彭博社报道，财政部经济部长 Tulip Siddiq 表示，这些法规将涵盖稳定币和质押服务，以及加密货币本身。

Siddiq said:

西迪克说：

“We will introduce a comprehensive framework for crypto assets covering the full range of crypto activities, from decentralized finance to stablecoins.”

“我们将为加密资产引入一个全面的框架，涵盖从去中心化金融到稳定币的全方位加密活动。”

Stablecoin’s use cases do not make it a good fit for existing payment services regulation, Siddiq said. Stablecoin legislation has been in the works since the release of a suite of discussion papers in October 2023 but was never expected earlier than 2025.

Siddiq 表示，稳定币的用例并不适合现有的支付服务监管。自 2023 年 10 月发布一系列讨论文件以来，稳定币立法一直在酝酿之中，但从未预计会早于 2025 年。

The crypto industry hopes that staking can escape being designated as a “collective investment scheme,” as that brings with it additional restrictions. Siddiq said at the summit:

加密行业希望质押能够避免被指定为“集体投资计划”，因为这会带来额外的限制。西迪克在峰会上表示：

“We will introduce a new regime for staking services, ensuring they are not captured by the definition of ‘collective investment scheme’ where this is not appropriate.”

“我们将引入一种新的质押服务制度，确保它们不会被不合适的‘集体投资计划’定义所涵盖。”

The UK needs to get a grip on crypto

英国需要掌控加密货币

The former Conservative government expressed the ambition to make the United Kingdom a cryptocurrency hub, but so far the country has often been seen as a challenging regulatory environment. Blame for that perception is often placed on the Financial Conduct Authority, which is a regulator independent of the government.

前保守党政府表达了让英国成为加密货币中心的雄​​心，但到目前为止，该国经常被视为具有挑战性的监管环境。这种看法往往归咎于金融行为监管局，它是一个独立于政府的监管机构。

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation will come into full force by the end of the year. With the continent offering regulatory certainty and the United States’ Trump administration being viewed as pro-crypto, the UK is looking less and less attractive to the multibillion-dollar crypto industry.

与此同时，欧盟的加密资产市场（MiCA）监管将于今年年底全面生效。随着欧洲大陆提供监管确定性以及美国特朗普政府被视为支持加密货币，英国对价值数十亿美元的加密货币行业的吸引力似乎越来越小。

The former government had promised new crypto regulations in July, but that was not possible. So far, the Labour government’s only attempt at crypto regulation has been a bill proposed in September to clarify the legal status of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrency and carbon credits by declaring them property.

前政府曾在 7 月份承诺实施新的加密货币法规，但这是不可能的。到目前为止，工党政府在加密货币监管方面的唯一尝试是 9 月份提出的一项法案，通过宣布非同质代币（NFT）、加密货币和碳信用额的财产来澄清它们的法律地位。

Magazine: Crypto has 4 years to grow so big ‘no one can shut it down’: Kain Warwick, Infinex

杂志：加密货币有 4 年时间发展得如此之大“无人能将其关闭”：Kain Warwick、Infinex