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Whitepaper Reading [31] - Crypto Regulation
Papers: Crypto Regulation
As major players in the crypto ecosystem embrace regulation and governmental involvement, builders, sales people and engineers must know how these rules actually work—and how they will shape products development, security/privacy, and the market.
This session unpacks major frameworks across the U.S., EU, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UK.
Key Bills
US – GENIUS Act of 2025: Federal stablecoin law requiring 1:1 reserves and AML compliance. (Fact Sheet, Bill Detail)
US - SEC approval of spot Bitcoin ETPs (Jan 2024): Allowed spot Bitcoin ETFs under securities laws. (SEC Statement)Hong Kong – SFC Licensing Regime: Mandatory licensing for virtual-asset trading platforms. (link)
Singapore – Digital-Token Service Provider (2025): Licenses required for Singapore-based firms offering overseas crypto services. (Link)
EU – MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation): EU-wide rules on crypto transparency, disclosure, and licensing (link)
UK – Draft Cryptoassets Regime (2025): FCA-authorised regime for trading platforms and stablecoin issuers. (link)
Format
Round table discussions with the Authors (No Panels)
Summaries: We create summaries to help everyone understand.
LightFood + Drinks
Thank You
Appreciate SuperTeam Singapore / SGBuilders for generously offering us their space to host such a discussion again 🙏
About Whitepaper Reading Club
The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 600 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok and New York who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers https://wprc.club/en/about.
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Summaries
We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 50+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.
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