Switzerland and Malta have been the two front runners so far when it came to building a complete official infrastructure for blockchain and DLT serving businesses and cryptocurrencies.

Recently Malta has been in the news a lot as they became the first country to push through with a complete DLT legislation process, including laws that regulated ICOs, exchanges and existing crypto projects.

Now Switzerland is moving a step forward again and is looking to include cryptocurrency offerings on the Swiss stock exchange to the joy of many investors and existing Swiss based projects. According to an article surfaced recently the Swiss stock exchange and the company behind it, SIX, is looking to build out new infrastructure that will be able to support Bitcoin at first, but additional cryptocurrencies later as well.

Jos Dijsselhof, SIX’s chief executive has a very opinion regarding cryptocurrencies. He believes that the new and innovative assets are here to stay mostly and that the distruptive force of them shouldn’t be underestimated.

The only thing still in question is how the the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) will react to these new developments. Switzerland has been known to support blockchain related businesses, but this would need a lot more official paperwork as a potential crypto ‘stock exchange’ would need to hit very high standards in terms of security and anti-money laundering laws.

This wouldn’t be the first stock exchange in the EU that announces cryptocurrency trading, Germany’s second largest stock exchange Börse Stuttgart will launch a trading app in September that will compete with Robin Hood, Circle Invest and Abra. The App will be named Bison and will feature buying and selling opportunity for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple, while also including market sentiment analysis features through monitoring social media.