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Hawaii Business Magazine
May 12, 2021
If you bought a single bitcoin for $1,000 in February 2017 and sold it four years later, you’d pocket around $50,000.
But, if you lived in Hawai‘i, you probably didn’t buy Bitcoin after February 2017. That month, the digital currency exchange Coinbase ceased operations in Hawai‘i, blaming over-regulation. Local residents were given 30 days to transfer or sell their digital currency and close their accounts.
Since then, digital currency exchanges have struggled to operate in Hawai‘i, but a pilot program started in 2020 opened the door for their return. The Digital Currency Innovation Lab, a joint project of the Hawai‘i Division of Financial Institutions and the Hawaii Technology Development Corp., is a novel approach to regulation. It’s a “regulatory sandbox,” with state regulators working closely with a select group of companies and gathering data to inform decisions about how to regulate the industry moving forward.
This invitation comes after DCIL admitted the first cohort of companies in August 2020.
The second cohort will operate without money transmitter licenses until June 30, 2022.
Hawaii’s government has invited established crypto firms to join the Digital Currency Innovation Lab (DCIL) program, which seeks to boost financial innovation in the country. The government unveiled this news through a news release on January 25, noting that all interested firms should apply through the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) website. The application deadline will be on February 27, 3:00 AM UTC, and the program is set to run until June 30, 2022.
According to the press release, this will be the second onboarding round. The first cohort came in August 2020, and it comprised 11 well-known companies. These are Apex Crypto, bitFlyer USA, BlockFi Trading, CEX.IO, Cloud Nalu, Coinme, ErisX, Flexa Network, Gemini Trust Company, Novi Financial, and River Financial.