The first digital financial assets (DFA) in Russia could be issued by the end of this year. Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, expressed this at the Moscow Academic Economic Forum.

“Maybe even this year, we expect the first DFAs to be released and gradually build upon the blockchain and the whole picture of the relationship between companies, not just financial deals. it’s in this distributed ledger,” he said.

According to him, two more platforms are being prepared for recording.

Aksakov also said that in the near future the State Duma should receive a draft law on digital currencies prepared by the government.

He noted that officials “seem to have agreed” on the need to regulate “energy consumption, energy supply” in order to streamline things with illegal companies that are causing problems for energy consumption in certain regions, as well as legalizing mining. “

Recall that the CFA law was adopted in 2020 and entered into force on January 1, 2021.

Atomyze, Sberbank and the Lighthouse platform received the status of information system operators for the management of the digital finance market.