Amidst the war, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law "On virtual assets", as the minister of digital transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov
reports.
According to Fedorov, crypto assets became a powerful tool of financing the Armed forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and the crypto market is one of the most dynamic markets of the digital economy, which is also actively developing in Ukraine. Fedorov says the law legalizes foreign and Ukrainian crypto exchanges, allows banks to open accounts for crypto companies, allows Ukrainians to protect their investments into virtual assets and means that the state guarantees court protection of the rights related to virtual assets.
This explain how the European parlament refused the by voting the law of banning mining activities. But this also makes me wonder how that law was set again over the table despite the Ukranian condition of war.
In case you don't know, Ukraine isn't a part of the EU, and Ukrainian legislation thus doesn't really affect what's going on in the European Parliament. As for the law being signed during the war, Zelensky is working all the time, and from time to time it means signing laws, issuing decrees and stuff like that. Our Parliament is also working, by the way, considering and voting for new laws during the war.
Ukraine can turn into a crypto hub and build the economy on cryptocurrencies after the war. One week ago officials said that Ukraine suffered nearly $120 billion in infrastructure damage. The damage will at least double because Russia isn't going to stop and Ukraine is also not to give up. Both side lost a lot of money in the war, Ukraine is backed by the modern western world.
Once the war ends and I hope Ukraine will win, the main mission of this country and the government will be to attract money, investors and rebuild the country. The current war is a bright picture of how easily can any law change in force majeure even in 21th century.
My prediction is that Ukraine will become the crypto hub of Europe!
It's a nice prediction, and yes, it's likely that this will happen. State's tolerance and interest towards cryptos grew significantly during the war, so it's not likely that Ukraine won't proceed with further crypto adoption after the war. The damage is huge, but I also heard $300 billion of Russian money is already frozen somewhere by the West and will be given to Ukraine after the war to repair the damage caused by Russia. But yes, of course Ukraine will need to boost its economy with something, and the crypto industry is a good option.