THELOGICALINDIAN - On Thursday May 9 2024 the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN appear new guidelines assuming how antimoney bed-making AML laws administer to Bitcoin and the blow of the cryptocurrency in accepted
Mandatory KYC for P2P Bitcoin Trading Platforms
In a cheep appear on Friday (May 10, 2024) notable cryptocurrency acknowledged able Jake Chervinsky provided a arbitrary assay of the key highlights from the FinCEN guidelines.
The capital purpose of the 30-page document is to accommodate authoritative accuracy for cryptocurrency businesses in free whether they are money transmitters beneath the Banking Secrecy Act (BSA).
According to FinCEN, Bitcoin peer-to-peer trading platforms like Localbitcoins are money transmitters. The authoritative babysitter characterized P2P exchanges as entities affianced in trading bitcoin and added cryptocurrencies.
Thus, BTC traders on Localbitcoins who accept affairs in the U.S. charge accomplish binding know-your-customer (KYC) processes and accept by AML laws. This guideline additionally agency actionable BTC P2P traders risk adverse bastille time if caught.
Back in 2018, Eldon Ross, a Pennsylvania built-in bagged a one-year bastille sentence for active an actionable money manual business (MSB) application BTC.
Pivot Towards STOs?
Another abeyant aspect of the new FinCEN advice is as it relates to antecedent bread offerings (ICOs). For the longest time, abounding projects accept approved to pass-up their offerings as account tokens to abstain balance regulations but that could change.
According to Chervinksy, the new FinCEN advice characterizes ICOs as money transmitters back the tokens offered aren’t securities. An extract from the certificate reads:
DEXes and DApps on Opposite Side of FinCEN’s Guideline
While the FinCEN certificate appears alive and durably aloof as far cryptocurrency regulations go, there is, however, a bit of centralized inconsistency.
This alterity applies to the alloyed assuming of decentralized exchanges (DEX) and decentralized applications (DApps.)
It appears FinCEN doesn’t absolutely accurately butt the actuality that a DEX is a blazon of DApp. In the document, the banking crimes babysitter says DApps can authorize as money transmitters, if:
However, the aforementioned guideline absolutely states that DEX (likely non-custodial exchanges) are exempted from money manual laws.
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