Crypto Meets Red Tape: Australia’s Regulator Says “New Plumbing, Same Rules”
So, Rhys Bollen, ASIC’s fintech whisperer, took the stage in Melbourne and basically said crypto is just financial functions in a trendy hat. “It’s not the blockchain, darling, it’s what you do with it,” he quipped, probably. His hot take? Regulate crypto like it’s 1999 – by what it does, not how it looks. Stablecoins? Payment law. Tokenized securities? Securities law. Groundbreaking. Or, you know, just common sense.


