Despite the recent setback of having their Bitcoin ETF rejected by the SEC for the second time, the Winklevoss brothers remain undeterred in their efforts to bring cryptocurrency into the investment mainstream.
Their latest project is the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA), a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the virtual currency industry…
On June 14, 2018, the New York State Department of Financial Services (the “DFS”) announced that the agency granted a virtual currency license (or “BitLicense”) to bitcoin wallet and vault provider Xapo, Inc., and authorized the blockchain financial services company Paxos Trust Company LLC to expand their business to offer exchange and custodial services to cryptoassets beyond bitcoin. Days later, the DFS announced that it had approved the BitLicense application of financial services and mobile payment provider Square, Inc. (which already possessed a state money transmitter license and whose Cash App offers a method to trade bitcoin). These developments followed last month’s approval of Gemini Trust Company to provide additional virtual currency products and services (including custodial services and trading of Zcash, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash). With the latest approval of Square, the DFS has granted a total of nine virtual currency charters or licenses.
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