We’ve seen considerable movement in Korea’s regulatory environment for blockchain over the last couple of weeks.
Most notably, a parliamentary subcommittee passed proposed revisions to the “Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information” — a.k.a. The Financial Transactions Reporting Act (FTRA) — that call for the registration of cryptocurrency exchanges. While perhaps not to everyone’s liking, the revisions are widely seen as a first step to bringing the cryptocurrency industry into Korea’s mainstream.
At the very least, they would better establish the rules of the game. Lawmakers still have some work ahead of them before the revisions become law, though, and recent developments may not have helped.
Meanwhile, the ICON network continues to stabilize. ICON is now working on two internal releases and one external release. With Revision 8, the network should be fully stabilized. Mobile staking functionality has been added to the iOS version of the ICONex wallet, and the ICON Tracker has been given a facelift, too.
ICON Announcements
- MyID Alliance Partners Day by ICONLOOP (Nov 25)
- Post-Mortem of the Network Pause by ICON Foundation (Nov 26)
- ICON Development Roadmap Update — November 2019 by ICON Foundation (Nov 30)
Interviews / Profiles
ICON Insider / Newsbytes
P-Rep / Community Highlights
- How to vote on ICON (ICX) using ICONex mobile wallet (iOS)? by Stakin (Nov 21)
- Incentive Alignment for the Sustainable Decentralization of ICON. by Pocket Network (Nov 22)
- block42 contributes to ICON — Update #6 by block42 (Nov 22)
- Early Inning Hiccups by Rhizome (Nov 23)
- ICON Go’s Top of the Week by ICONNECT (Nov 25)
- The case for more Exchanges by blockmove (Nov 25)
- South Korean Blockchain ICON (ICX) Hits Mainstream News. Signs of Things to Come. by Mineable (Nov 25)
- BankID – universal authentication service for the Czech Republic. ICONLOOP interested? by blockmove (Nov 25)
- Automatization of Data Base Validity Check by Paradigm Fund (Nov 26)
- ICON (ICX) i_rep Economics by Stakin (Nov 26)
- “The ICX Show: The Democratic Chronicles: An ICONVIET Production” by ICONVIET (Nov 26)
- INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD HEART ABOUT HEX, CRYPTO, ECONOMICS, AND MORE by AC3 (Nov 26)
- [ICON DApp] BlockInsight App Pre-register by BlockInsight (Nov 26)
- ICON: ICON CORE launch to improve the process of onboarding developers on the ICON blockchain by Paradigm Fund (Nov 27)
- What do you reckon is the future of ICON? by Eugene Chygyryn (Nov 27)
- “The ICX Show: The ICONist Paradigm: The Democratic Chronicles” by ICONVIET (Nov 28)
- Comparing Distributed Ledgers by Game of Thrones use case — final comparison by block42 (Nov 29)
- ICON Testnet Faucet Developed and Launched by iBriz-ICONOsphere by iBriz (Nov 29)
- ICON Governance, Vote Distribution, and Reducing I-Rep by Rhizome (Nov 30)
- Scenes from a Bear Market by Rhizome (Nov 30)
- ICON — Decentralized. What can we do? by Goran Trpchevski (Nov 30)
- DICE is Live on ICONbet.io! by ICONbet (Nov 30)
- A call to the ICON community: this is how we win. by Parrot 9 (Dec 2)
- An Introduction into How ICON (ICX) Can Run the Smart Cities of Tomorrow by Mineable (Dec 2)
- ICON Go’s Top of the Week by ICONNECT (Dec 2)
- Transparency Report — November by block42 (Dec 2)
- ICON & iBriz-ICONOsphere Collaboration by iBriz (Dec 3)
- iBriz.Ai conducts ICON Workshop in San Francisco by iBriz (Dec 3)
- Insight ICON’s Weekly Infrastructure Call by Insight (Dec 3)
- ICON DAO to Host ICON Blockchain Developer Workshop by ICON DAO (Dec 3)
- November Update from Blockmove by blockmove (Dec 4)
- Formal classification of BUIDL and Onchain Radical Proposal Council by ICONVIET (Dec 4)
- ICON P-Rep Update by Pocket Network (Dec 5)
News Coverage / ICON Mentions
- Why these 3 struggling altcoins are set to surge again in 2020 by Martin Young (Dec 5)
