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Ethereum Shapella Upgrade Crypto-asset Market April Impact 

09/04

Ethereum Shapella Upgrade Crypto-asset Market April Impact 

All You Need to Know Second only to $547.44B Bitcoin market cap, Ethereum network market cap stands at $226.23B, and live trading price $1,889.13 with more than 50% gains year-to-date (at the time of this writing). Ethereum is a strategic, high-value, Turing-complete smart contract application implementation network with 36% decentralised application (d’app) largest  market share. […]

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Fair Use Generally

21/03

Fair Use Generally

Does this phrase seem familiar – “All rights reserved”? If you have (and you would probably have) it’s a copyright notice, telling you that you cannot reproduce the art / text / item, because it’s copyrighted. And that’s what copyright law does – it stops people from *copying* things. But as copyright laws go, there’s […]

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Is My NFT a Security?

19/03

Is My NFT a Security?

Most people would not expect NFTs to be deemed a security. Leading securities enforcement agencies have yet to inspect NFTs as securities. But the evolving game plan for NFT projects show that the popular NFTs of tomorrow may be deemed as securities. Most NFTs are Not Securities In a previous article, I wrote about the […]

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Some Use Cases of Non-Fungible Tokens

13/02

Some Use Cases of Non-Fungible Tokens

NFTs are more than a JPEG file; in this post we will explore their use cases.

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United Kingdom to Remove Distributed Ledger Technology(DLT) From Crypto-asset Definition and Regulate Decentralised Finance(DeFi)

18/01

United Kingdom to Remove Distributed Ledger Technology(DLT) From Crypto-asset Definition and Regulate Decentralised Finance(DeFi)

As part of the crypto-asset market regulatory measures, Her Majesty’s Treasury has put out a proposal to remove references to blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in crypto-asset statutory definition in an attempt to be underlying technology-agnostic, and thus effectively rein in Decentralised Finance (DeFi) within the United Kingdom legal and regulatory landscape. Source: Blockchain […]

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Hong Kong to Introduce Stablecoin and Crypto-asset Regulatory Framework

15/01

Hong Kong to Introduce Stablecoin and Crypto-asset Regulatory Framework

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, through its Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA); the central banking institution, is joining the list of states with their eyes set on taking firm decision on, or putting in place, public-oriented crypto-asset and stablecoin regulatory framework. HKMA introduced a questionnaire where it seeks […]

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Project Giant E-Naira CBDC Rides Legacy Legal Tender Law Wave

28/09

Project Giant E-Naira CBDC Rides Legacy Legal Tender Law Wave

The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) has no plans to amend its extant legal tender laws, in view of its Central Bank Digital Currency(CBDC) project pilot launch October 1st, 2021, and beyond if successful. This came to fore after the Nigeria apex bank sent a strategic pilot implementation roadmap presentation to the Deposit Money Banks(DMBs) et […]

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Will Legacy Laws Ever Catch Up With Crypto-assets?

02/09

Will Legacy Laws Ever Catch Up With Crypto-assets?

Introduction Pursuant to historical terms and digital years both, it has always been the case that technological innovation goes before the law, and or regulation. This, however, is no different when it comes to crypto-asset emergence and resulting fast and quick-paced revolution, adoption, and implementation by mainstream real economic sector big players across the planet. […]

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Bank of Ghana Regulatory Sandbox Favours Crypto-asset Products

14/03

Bank of Ghana Regulatory Sandbox Favours Crypto-asset Products

Newsletter #4 14th March, 2021.  Weeks have passed since the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) pronounced its crypto-asset transaction ban policy through a circular dated 5th February, 2021. As if taking a cue from its Nigeria central bank counterpart in the emergent cryptocurrency adoption and mainstreaming competition, the central bank of another Sub-Saharan West African country […]

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Re: Did the Central Bank of Nigeria Crypto-asset Ban Mislead the Public?

28/02

Re: Did the Central Bank of Nigeria Crypto-asset Ban Mislead the Public?

Newsletter #3 28th February, 2021. Central bank misleads citizens by claim it did not place “new restrictions on cryptocurrencies”.   Pursuant to the Nigeria central banking system authority crypto-ban policy pronouncement 5th February, 2021, all regulated Deposit Money Banks(DMBs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions(NBFIs), and Other Financial Institutions(OFIs) were “directed to identify persons and/or entities transacting in or […]

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