China prosecutors to crack down on NFTs used as crypto proxies
China's national agency responsible for legal prosecution published a new set of non-fungible token (NFT) guidelines on May 15, warning that NFTs are being used as a proxy for illegal securities and speculative digital assets. The guidelines from the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China recommend stronger "risk research and judgment" to differentiate between “true innovation” NFTs and quasi-crypto “pseudo-innovation,”. The prosecutors acknowledged that “as a new application of blockchain technology, NFT has certain development potential." However, they also saw a tendency toward “securitization” of NFTs where ownership of one token or collection was shared among multiple individuals, which they claim violated proper NFT criteria such as non-reproducibility, indivisibility and uniqueness. The court found that NFTs “have the object characteristics of property rights such as value, scarcity, controllability, and tradability” and “belong to network virtual property” meaning that they “should be protected by the laws of our country.” Their definition of NFTs set an important and far-reaching precedent for digital property in China.
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