India’s Central Bank Governor Warns About Crypto After Collapse of Terra LUNA, UST

India"s Central Bank Governor Warns About Crypto After Collapse of Terra LUNA, UST

India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has warned about investing in the crypto market following the collapse of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST). “We have been cautioning against crypto and look at what has happened to the crypto market now,” said Governor Shaktikanta Das. RBI’s Governor on Crypto Market and Regulation

The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, discussed the crypto market downturn and the regulation of crypto assets in an interview with CNBC TV18 Monday.

“We have been cautioning against crypto and look at what has happened to the crypto market now,” the governor said, stressing: Had we been regulating it already, then people would have raised questions about what happened to regulations.

The crypto market has shed over $1.5 trillion since November last year and almost $500 billion since the beginning of the month. The market slump was exacerbated by the fall of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and algorithmic stablecoin terrausd (UST).

Describing cryptocurrency, Das said: “This is something whose underlying (value) is nothing.” He added: There are big questions on how do you regulate it. Our position remains very clear, it will seriously undermine the monetary, financial and macroeconomic stability of India.

The RBI also recently warned that crypto could lead to the dollarization of the Indian economy.

The governor believes that the Indian government shares the central bank’s stance on crypto. “We have conveyed our position to the government and they will take a considered call,” the central bank chief noted. “I think the utterances and statements coming out from the government are more or less in sync. They are also equally concerned.”

Das was also asked about the statement made by Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, who claimed that Coinbase India disabled payments by the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) days after launch due to “informal pressure” from the RBI.

“I would not like to react on speculative observations made by individuals outside,” the governor replied.

The Indian government has been working on cryptocurrency legislation for quite some time. Finance ministry officials have been consulting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on crypto regulation. Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in April that the decision on crypto regulation will not be rushed.

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency income is currently taxed at 30% in India, and a 1% tax deducted at source (TDS) will start levying on crypto transactions in July. Tags in this story crypto market crash, crypto market downturn, Crypto regulation, Cryptocurrency regulation, LUNA, RBI, rbi bitcoin, rbi crypto, rbi cryptocurrency, Shaktikanta Das, Terra, upi, UST

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