尼日利亚 SEC 最快本月向加密货币交易所颁发许可证

尼日利亚 SEC 正计划向加密资产服务提供商颁发许可证，以应对公民对这项技术的无畏采用

Nigerian regulators appear to be pivoting towards regulating the crypto sector after months of a heavy-handed crackdown.

经过数月的严厉打击后，尼日利亚监管机构似乎正在转向监管加密货币行业。

What Happened: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria is planning to license crypto asset service providers as early as this month, according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday.

发生了什么：据彭博社周二报道，尼日利亚证券交易委员会（SEC）计划最早在本月向加密资产服务提供商颁发许可证。

The report said the agency planned to start issuing these licenses as soon as this month, citing statements by Director-General Emomotimi Agama to correspondents.

报道援引总干事埃莫莫蒂米·阿加玛 (Emotimi Agama) 向记者发表的声明称，该机构计划最快本月开始发放这些许可证。

Agama, who described himself as “a crypto enthusiast,” said the agency wanted to ensure that the country’s large and crypto-savvy youth did not miss out on the benefits of the sector.

阿加玛自称是“加密货币爱好者”，他表示该机构希望确保该国大量精通加密货币的年轻人不会错过该行业的好处。

The statements mark a departure from a crackdown in February 2024, during which the country pressured leading exchanges to delist the naira while blocking user access to their platforms.

这些声明标志着与 2024 年 2 月的镇压行动不同，当时该国向主要交易所施压，要求其下架奈拉，同时阻止用户访问其平台。

Meanwhile, in March 2024, the country’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the country’s tax authority, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), charged Binance with money laundering and tax evasion, respectively, in a legal battle that has seen an exchange executive incarcerated for nearly six months.

与此同时，2024 年 3 月，该国反腐败机构经济和金融犯罪委员会 (EFCC) 和该国税务机关联邦税务局 (FIRS) 分别指控币安洗钱和逃税。一场法律诉讼导致一名交易所高管被监禁近六个月。

The SEC has not been the only Nigerian agency to pivot towards regulations in recent days.

美国证券交易委员会并不是最近几天唯一转向监管的尼日利亚机构。

On Saturday, FIRS Chairman Zaach Adedeji reportedly disclosed that the agency is preparing a massive tax reform bill for lawmakers to consider. The regulator said the bill will also introduce guidelines for cryptocurrency taxation.

据报道，周六，FIRS 主席扎克·阿德德吉 (Zaach Adedeji) 透露，该机构正在准备一项大规模的税收改革法案，供立法者考虑。监管机构表示，该法案还将引入加密货币税收指南。

The FIRS chairman said the agency planned to formulate crypto regulations in a manner that would not harm Nigeria’s economic progress.

FIRS 主席表示，该机构计划以不会损害尼日利亚经济进步的方式制定加密法规。

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Why It Matters: The Nigerian government has been cracking down on the crypto sector in recent months over claims of currency manipulation, money laundering, and terrorism financing.

重要性：近几个月来，尼日利亚政府一直在打击加密货币行业，指控其涉嫌货币操纵、洗钱和恐怖主义融资。

Several leading crypto exchanges, including Binance, OKX, and KuCoin, were forced to remove the naira from their peer-to-peer (p2p) platforms as part of the crackdown, cutting off most users from their preferred crypto on and off ramps.

作为打击行动的一部分，包括币安、OKX 和 KuCoin 在内的几家领先的加密货币交易所被迫从其点对点 (p2p) 平台上移除奈拉，从而切断了大多数用户与其首选加密货币的进出通道。

The move impacted crypto adoption in the country, which had been using p2p trading to circumvent capital controls and a banking sector largely hostile to crypto.

此举影响了该国加密货币的采用，该国一直在使用点对点交易来规避资本管制，而银行业对加密货币基本上持敌意。

Despite the crackdown, crypto adoption in Nigeria has remained high, with the country ranking among the top 10 in the Chainalysis 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index.

尽管受到打击，尼日利亚的加密货币采用率仍然很高，该国在 Chainaanalysis 2023 年全球加密货币采用指数中名列前十。

The pivot towards licensing and regulation by Nigerian regulators could signal an attempt to balance concerns over financial crime and capital flight with the need to support a thriving crypto sector.

尼日利亚监管机构转向许可和监管可能标志着试图平衡对金融犯罪和资本外逃的担忧与支持蓬勃发展的加密行业的需要。