The official recalled that in March, the Bank of Russia proposed creating an experimental legal regime for trading cryptocurrencies (EPR) for a period of three years, within the framework of which a limited circle of Russian investors could buy and sell digital assets.
Only “especially qualified” investors could make transactions within the framework of EPR. This status is proposed to be assigned to those whose investments in securities and deposits exceed 100 million rubles or income for the previous year amounted to more than 50 million rubles.
“We are discussing these figures exactly. We believe that the criteria can be adjusted in the smaller way. That’s just the discussion now. We need to run into all the processes so that we do not look at the superman layer how everything works, ”the director of the Department of the Ministry of Finance explained.
According to Yakovlev, the new criteria should limit the potential circle of participants, but at the same time not to create conditions under which the “most sensitive part of the population” will be devoid of admission to the “legal digital infrastructure”.
Earlier, Alexei Yakovlev said that the idea of tokenization of gold mined by Russian private companies can be implemented in practice in the very near future.
Source: Bits
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