Daily Archives: 07/02/2022

Japan’s oldest trading house Mitsui plans to launch its own cryptocurrency

The largest Japanese corporation Mitsui & Co has announced the release of its own digital currency ZipangCoin (ZPG), linked to the value of gold on the London Metal Exchange. According to Mitsui & Co, ZipangCoin will be offered to retail investors through a variety of cryptocurrency exchanges. But initially, the new cryptocurrency will be available for purchase by investors on the site of Mitsui’s own exchange. The value of one ZPG token will be equal…

US Treasury called for regulation of high-value art in the NFT market

The US Department of the Treasury believes that privacy in the digital art market and simplification of logistics through tokenization will lead to an increase in money laundering through NFTs. The U.S. Treasury Department posted a report based on the Money Laundering Act of 2020, which says that the regulator has found evidence of the involvement of owners of high-value works of art in money laundering. The US Department of the Treasury, based on its…