Russia scraps plans for a national cryptocurrency exchange
Russia will continue to create new crypto platforms in response to sanctions, State Duma official Anatoly Aksakov said. The Russian government is no longer planning to launch a regulated national cryptocurrency exchange but rather wants to regulate multiple crypto trading platforms. After introducing a plan to create a national crypto exchange in November 2022, Russian lawmakers have abandoned the idea, according to State Duma member Anatoly Aksakov. As previously reported, the local government was considering launching a unified crypto exchange as part of the Moscow Exchange. Instead of setting up a unified crypto exchange, Russia now wants to set rules for creating and managing such platforms, Aksakov said, the local news agency Izvestia reported on May 29. Russia’s Ministry of Finance was reportedly among the authorities that didn’t support the plan for a national crypto exchange. Aksakov, who leads the Duma’s financial markets committee, noted that crypto exchanges would allow Rus...