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Hayes expressed his views on X (previously Twitter) at the moment, emphasizing the optimistic influence of competitors within the digital asset house.
“Competitors is superb. If the US has its proxy asset supervisor, BlackRock, launching an ETF, China wants its proxy asset supervisor to launch one too. The US vs. China financial conflict is nice for BTC,” he wrote.
Hayes’ feedback got here within the wake of a Monday report by Bloomberg, highlighting Hong Kong’s efforts to think about permitting exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that make investments instantly in cryptocurrencies. As per the report, Japan is wanting into offering retail traders entry to spot ETFs, supplied they meet regulatory necessities. This transfer goals to place Hong Kong as an Asia-Pacific hub for digital belongings whereas addressing the challenges stemming from the JPEX scandal.
Julia Leung, the Chief Govt Officer of the Securities and Futures Fee, commented on these developments, stating, “We welcome proposals utilizing revolutionary know-how that reinforces effectivity and buyer expertise. We’re completely happy to provide it a strive so long as new dangers are addressed. Our strategy is constant whatever the asset.”
 
 
Notably, ETFs have been seen as a strategy to convey digital belongings into mainstream monetary markets, with expectations that the approval of spot ETFs may additional drive Bitcoin’s progress. Hong Kong and the USA presently allow futures-based crypto ETFs, although their adoption has been comparatively modest.
Hong Kong has been actively working to boost its regulatory framework for digital belongings, specializing in investor safety and transparency, following a big fraud case involving the unlicensed JPEX crypto trade.
Underneath Hong Kong’s digital-asset regime, retail traders can commerce main cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether on licensed exchanges. Efforts are additionally underway to discover tokenization, permitting digital representations of real-world belongings. The town is positioning itself to embrace completely different ranges of tokenization for retail traders.
The removing of restrictions on safety token choices for skilled traders opens the door for tokenized securities in Hong Kong. The town’s central financial institution can be exploring steerage for banks to supply digital-asset custodial providers, which is essential for growing a digital-asset ecosystem.
That stated, as competitors intensifies within the international monetary panorama, with the US and China taking measures to strengthen their positions, Bitcoin is poised to proceed rising as a beneficiary of this rivalry. The cryptocurrency’s function as a hedge towards conventional monetary uncertainties and financial fluctuations makes it a secure haven in a world the place central banks could resort to printing cash to stabilize their economies.
