The central financial institution of Russia proposed to set limits on annual cryptocurrency investments by non-professional buyers.

The Financial institution of Russia prompt that unqualified buyers in Russia shouldn’t be allowed to take a position greater than 600,000 Russian rubles ($7,800) in digital property per 12 months.

The authority laid out the brand new proposal in an explanatory note referring to Russia’s newly handed crypto regulation, “On Digital Monetary Property,” or DFA. 

The official assertion stipulates that the brand new regulatory restriction will contain not solely digital monetary property but additionally “different digital rights”:

“People representing unqualified buyers can have a restrict on the quantity of digital monetary property for annual buy at a complete of 600 thousand rubles. The restrict for the acquisition of digital rights for unqualified buyers who maintain each digital monetary property and different digital rights is ready at 600 thousand rubles for digital monetary property and 600 thousand rubles for different digital rights.”

The brand new restriction shall be enforced together with Russia’s DFA regulation on Jan. 1, 2020. The central financial institution is accepting public proposals and suggestions about printed restrictions from Oct. 13 until Oct. 27, 2020, the assertion notes.

Within the explanatory notice, the Financial institution of Russia outlined the financial institution’s regulatory competences relating to the DFA regulation. In accordance with the DFA regulation, the financial institution “has the proper to find out options of digital monetary property whose acquisition will be solely made by a person who’s a professional investor.”
Formally handed into regulation in July 2020, the DFA doesn’t embody data on limits on the quantity of crypto purchases by certified or unqualified buyers in Russia.

Because the Russian ruble has been weakening lately, the quantity of the potential crypto funding restrict might apparently be devaluating sooner or later. When the Financial institution of Russia first prompt the 600,000 ruble crypto purchases restrict again in 2019, the quantity was price about $9,100.

At the side of the brand new regulatory proposals, the Financial institution of Russia additionally printed a session paper on the issuance of the digital ruble on Oct. 13.