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By Bruce Buterin
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Why Regulatory Fog Stalls the Market. Regulatory ambiguity does a specific kind of damage.
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What Bespoke Rules Could Actually Change. If the FCA does move forward with tailored rules, the potential upside is significant.
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Industry Pressure and What Comes Next. Industry participants have made their position clear: they want rules, and they want them soon.
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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is weighing new rules — and possible fund exemptions — specifically for tokenized gold. No final call yet.
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Tokenized gold is pretty much what it sounds like: digital representations of gold ownership recorded on a blockchain.
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Regulatory ambiguity does a specific kind of damage. It's not that it kills projects outright — it's that it makes everyone hesitant.
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The FCA seems to get that. Its consideration of bespoke regulations is basically an acknowledgment that the current framework doesn't quite fit.
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But it's worth being clear: nothing is decided. The FCA is still in deliberation mode. Specific details of any proposed framework haven't been released.
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If the FCA does move forward with tailored rules, the potential upside is significant. Clearer guidelines would likely bring more institutional money into the space — funds and…
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See also: FCA Permanently Bans Blue Horizon’s Paul Taylor and Esmeralda Toni for £200M Fraud
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There's also a broader signal here. The UK has been positioning itself as a serious hub for digital asset activity, and how the FCA handles tokenized gold will matter beyond just…
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The global picture matters here too. Tokenized real-world assets have been growing as a category across multiple markets.
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Industry participants have made their position clear: they want rules, and they want them soon. The longer the FCA takes, the longer projects sit in limbo.
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The FCA's exploration of fund exemptions is seen as a genuinely positive signal. Exemptions could give tokenized gold products a cleaner path to market without requiring a full…
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See also: Letitia James Leads 17 AGs to Block Crypto Clarity Act Vote in Senate
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