The French Government has taken the initiative to create a cutting-edge legal framework in order to regulate the provision of digital assets services in France.
Over the last few years, digital assets did not appear to fall within scope of French law or regulation as they could not be characterised as currency, electronic money, financial instruments nor – on a more fundamental level – was there a clear sense of whether digital assets were merely data or some type of intangible property.
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