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As the cryptocurrency industry gets bigger and bigger and gains mainstream adoption, it is also attracting the attention of regulators who want the crypto-related businesses to implement know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) rules. As we have seen with major players FTX, Binance, and BitMEX, crypto businesses are increasing their regulatory efforts. And taking another step toward this is cryptocurrency exchanges BitMEX and Deribit, which has joined crypto compliance platform Shyft. Its Veriscope solution already has Binance, Tether, Huobi, Bitfinex, and many more virtual asset service providers (VASPs) as its clients. The crypto compliance platform’s Veriscope solution uses smart contracts to identify exchange addresses and privately share KYC data. This solution provides an answer to the problem of discovering who a counterparty VASP is to a transaction, which is not an easy task, said chief compliance officer Malcolm Wright in a statement.
“The Veriscope solution provides for an answer to this problem that causes the least customer friction, whilst at the same time respecting data privacy, data consent, and security to the greatest extent.”
https://twitter.com/josephweinberg/status/1427654714796220419 Shyft, which was launched on mainnet a couple of months back, is currently beginning its phased deployment of a decentralized approach to AML rules from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). FATF’s ‘Travel Rule’ guidance requires VASPs and other service providers to report information about customers who are sending and receiving funds over a certain threshold in an attempt to counter money laundering and terrorist financing.