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ATO targets crypto investors, sharing economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024
... must declare staking rewards, which is income paid to crypto owners who hold tokens to validate transactions on the blockchain, and airdrops, which is the distribution of crypto-assets to digital wallets. They must also declare these values under the ...

Blockchain mining companies sued by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
ASIC has taken legal action against three blockchain mining companies - NGS Crypto, NGS Digital, and NGS Group - along with their sole directors Brett Mendham, Ryan Brown and Mark Ten Caten. The corporate regulator has accused the NGS companies of targeting ...

Bitcoin investing is on the rise, but more regulation is needed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... encouraging banks to adopt on-chain monitoring of transactions are part of Zeng's regulatory wish list. As a director of Blockchain Australia, Australia's peak Blockchain industry body, Zeng identified three policy areas for attention: Narrow ...

ASIC warns it can't take action on every case of misconduct

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... admitted the regulator can't fight every battle of misconduct, but that doesn't mean it's not watching. Speaking at the Blockchain APAC Policy Week event, Kirkland said ASIC can only regulate crypto assets and businesses to the extent they involve financial ...

Former Blockchain Global director confined to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
ASIC has obtained an interim order from the Federal Court to restrict former Blockchain Global director Liang Guo, also known as Allan Guo, from leaving Australia. The corporate regulator is currently investigating Guo and two other Blockchain Global ...

Tokenisation is the future: Northern Trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
... Asia Pacific Dan Sleep said tokenisation is an effective solution for those fund managers looking to gain benefits of blockchain technology without the complexity. For example, Sleep said master-feeder funds can benefit from streamlined and automated ...

Former Schroders executive enters VC space

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... growth trends that will contribute to the largest and most impactful companies over the next decade such as quantum, blockchain, AI, machine learning, robotics and cloud. "Post-market peak in 2021 the trend has been to allocate to the earlier stages ...

ASX awards settlement, clearing mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023
... phase is to be determined in late 2024 with stakeholder consultation. The ASX dumped its plans to replace CHESS with blockchain technology in November 2022, writing off some $255 million expended on the failed project that kickstarted as far back as ...

Base rate lifts to 4.35%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023
... giving households time to take matters into their own hands," Tindall said. Research fellow at RMIT University's Blockchain Innovation Hub Nataliya Ilyushina said financial distress among Australians is escalating. "The Australian Institute of Health ...

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF: A landmark institutional event?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... event, occurring around every four years, in which the reward for mining new blocks - verifying the transactions on the blockchain - is cut by 50%. This mechanism, built into Bitcoin's code, effectively constricts the supply of new Bitcoins, which ...
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