{"id":78031,"date":"2023-04-28T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=78031"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:35:41","slug":"uzbekistan-registers-its-first-nft-issuer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/uzbekistan-registers-its-first-nft-issuer\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan registers its first NFT issuer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 April, <span data-descr=\"National Agency for Prospective Projects\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NAPP<\/span> of Uzbekistan registered the first participant in the special regime regulating the circulation of crypto assets \u2014 the company &#8220;Unified Integrator \u2013 UZINFOCOM&#8221;. ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/napp.uz\/uz\/news\/maxsus-rejimning-birinchi-ishtirokchisi-ro-yxatga-olindi\">reported<\/a> this, according to agency representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot project implemented within the regulatory sandbox envisages the introduction of NFT certificates on the blockchain to confirm ownership of names in the .uz domain zone.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials from NAPP, it will be the Unified Integrator \u2013 UZINFOCOM that will issue non-fungible tokens on the blockchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe introduction of this technology is aimed at strengthening the protection and guarantees of owners\u2019 rights to domain names, and ensuring greater transparency and reliability of information about them,\u201d the agency added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under current law, individuals may issue NFTs through a crypto depository or other electronic platforms provided for by the order of NAPP.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Uzbekistan authorities enacted <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rules-for-miners-and-a-step-toward-taxation-how-post-soviet-states-regulated-the-bitcoin-market-in-2022\">a number of laws<\/a> regulating the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the rules for <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nearly-all-bitcoin-exchanges-blocked-in-uzbekistan\">licensing and trading on crypto exchanges<\/a> have been established, and the procedure for the issuance and turnover of digital assets has been defined. In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/uzbekistan-sets-out-requirements-for-miners\">miners<\/a> and providers of services related to cryptocurrencies began paying monthly fees.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that in 2022 five licensed cryptocurrency companies in Uzbekistan paid <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/uzbekistan-collected-more-than-310000-in-fees-from-the-bitcoin-industry-in-2022\">more than $310,000 into the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAPP of Uzbekistan registered the first participant in the special regulatory regime governing crypto assets\u2014the Unified Integrator \u2013 UZINFOCOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,36,1206],"class_list":["post-78031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-regulation","tag-uzbekistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78033,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78031\/revisions\/78033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}