ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the current regulatory landscape in the crypto market, focusing mainly on ICOs. It starts by discussing the critical importance of the regulatory approaches for this new area and the challenges regulators face in their effort to create a framework for the crypto market. It then discusses the current regulatory status quo of the main global regulators: the United States, Singapore, Canada, China and South Korea, UK, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, and the EU. The chapter ends by performing a comparative analysis of the approaches of all the aforementioned regulators.
