Taiwan’s Crypto Industry Welcomes Regulatory Announcement
“Our next steps would be for the virtual asset service provider industry to collaborate with the FSC to define regulatory operations,” he said, saying one of the first steps is to form an industry self-regulatory body to help develop a set of rules.
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