THELOGICALINDIAN - A cardinal of cryptocurrency businesses are now based in the Belarus HiTech Park afterwards the government in Minsk legalized cryptorelated activities for its association Registering an article in the appropriate bread-and-butter area was declared to be a aboveboard action but clearer guidelines and abundant regulations are still bare to allure added investors
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Almost 400 HTP Residents
Less than eight months afterwards President Lukashenko’s Decree №8 entered into force, the cardinal of companies registered in the Belarus High Technologies Park (HTP) has added to 388. Around bisected of them accept become association of the bread-and-butter area this year. The decree “On the Development of the Digital Economy” was active by the Belarussian baton in December 2017. One of its capital goals was to accompany adopted high-tech businesses to the above Soviet republic.
Minsk additionally capital to allure able projects from the cryptocurrency space. The certificate legalized activities such as agenda asset exchange, crowdfunding through antecedent bread offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrency mining for entities that are registered in the HTP. Currently, best of the companies accord to acceptable hi-tech sectors such as IT and software development. They assignment with barter in 67 added countries, generally as outsourcing partners.
Crypto businesses anatomy a baby but assorted group. For example, Aetsoft is a blockchain development aggregation which has provided casework to ICOs and decentralized exchanges back 2024. It deals with audience in a cardinal of markets, including the U.S., Germany and Denmark. Biggico is a collective startup accustomed by Belarusian and Latvian entrepreneurs. Its all-embracing aggregation has congenital an announcement belvedere for crypto projects.
Far East Technologies and Kbl Group are developing cryptocurrency mining facilities, and Pm Pool specializes in cloud-based mining casework for barter in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic region. Smartpool is addition aggregation operating in the aforementioned field. Aiscom offers cryptocurrency acquittal solutions to exchanges, wallet providers and ICO projects. Omertex develops high-tech solutions for the fintech industry.
Still a Long Way to Go
Experts alive in the area agenda that there are currently no agenda asset trading businesses amid the association of the Belarus High Technologies Park. A aggregation founded by Belarusian immigrants in the U.S. afresh launched what was advertised as “the aboriginal Belarusian cryptocurrency exchange.” The belvedere alleged Crexby is based in New York, not in Minsk.
There are several factors that explain the absence of such exchanges in Belarus. In an commodity afresh appear by Belmarket, Artem Handriko from the Revera law close argued that the abridgement of acknowledged convenance in the acreage is one of them. In addition, the country’s axial coffer has approved a blood-warm attitude appear cryptocurrencies and bartering banks are afraid to appoint in agenda asset barter transactions. More accuracy apropos the applicative regulations is bare to access the cardinal of HTP residents.
Earlier this year, bounded media quoted banking experts and admiral who expressed doubts that the country’s own crypto area and accustomed Belarusians would be able to account from the presidential decree on the agenda economy. They were anxious that its implementation, after the acceptance of added absolute regulations, would alone about-face Belarus into a “crypto-offshore.”
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