Ukraine continues engaged on cryptocurrency laws a yr after Russia’s invasion. In response to Yurii Boiko, commissioner of Ukraine’s Nationwide Fee on Securities and Inventory Market (NCSSM), the warfare has not modified its regulatory stance.

Ukraine has continued to observe within the footsteps of the European Union regarding digital asset legal guidelines, Boiko advised Cointelegraph in an interview.

The commissioner stated Ukrainian lawmakers have been working to implement main European crypto rules, referred to as the Markets in Crypto Property regulation, or MiCA.

“The strategy to the regulation of the digital asset market has not modified throughout the warfare,” Boiko said, including:

“We clearly know the place we should always go as a result of our path is European integration and the introduction of higher EU norms and guidelines to our markets. Due to this fact, we confidently go our personal manner and implement MiCA rules into the legislative plan.”

Boiko famous that the adoption of crypto laws in Ukraine had been slowed primarily as a result of must develop essential amendments to the nation’s tax and civil codes. One other issue is Ukraine’s path to European integration, the official stated, including that the NCSSM has been actively cooperating with worldwide colleagues to implement rules like MiCA.

In response to Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi, head of the parliamentary group Blockchain4Ukraine, the nation’s legislature began engaged on regulating the cryptocurrency market in October 2017.

“Sadly, at the moment, the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation was unable to undertake a crypto legislation, and solely because the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Verkhovna Rada of the ninth convocation returned to consideration of it,” Zhmerenetskyi stated. The lawmakers subsequently created the Blockchain4Ukraine group along with greater than 50 deputies in September 2019, he famous.

Zhmerenetskyi added {that a} working group beneath the NSSMC is presently finalizing a bundle of amendments to the draft legislation “On Digital Property” to adapt it to MiCA, which the European Parliament will vote onin April. As quickly because the president adopts and indicators the bundle, the NSSMC and the Nationwide Financial institution of Ukraine (NBU) will put together by-laws, after which Ukraine will formally launch the digital belongings market, he stated.

“We plan to do that by the top of this yr,” Zhmerenetskyi said.

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As beforehand reported, Ukraine’s central financial institution banned Bitcoin (BTC) purchases with the native foreign money, the Ukrainian hryvnia, in April 2022. The NBU solely allowed Ukrainians to purchase crypto with international foreign money, with whole month-to-month purchases not exceeding 100,000 hryvnia ($3,300).