

Luminous Group, LLC
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@LuminousGrp
Luminous is committed to accelerating the transformation of the digital economy focusing on regulatory compliant applications of blockchain-based technology






🚨 BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Indian PM Narendra Modi Drops HUGE Announcement on Global #Crypto Regulation at G20 🔥 Here's everything you need to know 😳 A thread 🧵

PROPOSED TAX REGS THREATEN US BLOCKCHAIN ACCESS Yesterday the IRS proposed crypto broker reporting regs. If finalized in their current form, the regs would require websites like those for @Uniswap, @opensea, and @etherscan, & many block builders, to geoblock US people. A🧵...


Libra/Diem failed partially because it was a stablecoin tied to a basket of assets comprised of various countries’ currency (not just the US dollar) and the US hated that. This couldn’t be interesting.






@federalreserve announces consent order against Silvergate Capital Corporation and Silvergate Bank to facilitate the voluntary self-liquidation that Silvergate announced on March 8, 2023: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…

Intermediaries for investment contracts are required to comply with securities laws & register with @SECGov. Instead, many crypto platforms are contending that their investment contracts are something else. The law cares about what something actually is, not what you call it.

Last Friday, we @SECGov voted to issue a supplemental release to our January '22 proposal requiring significant trading platforms to come under important rules for the markets. I believe this would help address comments from crypto & other market participants. Read my statement:

So far, there has not been a criminal action against Binance and CZ by DOJ, FinCEN, or OFAC, despite significant evidence in the CFTC complaint of money laundering and sanctions evasion. Based on the BitMEX precedent, I'd expect another shoe to drop.

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:

Last night in Illinois, a bill advanced that would make unlicensed “digital asset business activity” (i.e., most blockchain activities) a felony. If the House passes the bill, it could become law in a matter of weeks. Alliance opposes the Digital Assets Regulation Act (DARA).