# Cryptocurrency Regulations
> The Global Digital Asset Law Monitor. Regulatory status, statutes, deadlines, and penalties for cryptocurrency and digital assets across 34 countries and 11 US states, cited to primary sources. Last full review: August 12, 2026. Maintained by Stephen Bowles (https://agencyechelon.com).

## Machine-readable data
- [Full plain-text register](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/llms-full.txt): every jurisdiction, instrument, and definition in one file
- [Structured JSON](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/data/register.json): the register as data
- [RSS digest](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/feed.xml): sourced regulatory developments

## Reference pages
- [All jurisdictions](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/jurisdictions.html)
- [US state tracker](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-states.html)
- [Deadline calendar 2024–2027](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/calendar.html)
- [Penalty comparison](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/penalties.html)
- [Laws A–Z](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/laws.html)
- [Topics](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/topics.html)
- [Glossary](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/glossary.html)
- [US crypto law, answered](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-crypto-law-questions.html)
- [MiCA vs the US](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/mica-vs-us.html)
- [About and method](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/about.html)

## Jurisdictions
- [Argentina](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/argentina.html): Comprehensive. From registry to rulebook in eighteen months.
- [Australia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/australia.html): In transition. From AML registration toward platform licensing.
- [Brazil](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/brazil.html): Comprehensive. The framework law found its teeth in February 2026.
- [Canada](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/canada.html): Partial. Securities law stretched over crypto, with stablecoin legislation promised.
- [Chile](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/chile.html): Comprehensive. The Fintech Law folded crypto into financial regulation.
- [China](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/china.html): Prohibited. A comprehensive ban beside the world's largest CBDC pilot.
- [Colombia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/colombia.html): No dedicated regime. High adoption, repeated bills, no law.
- [Egypt](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/egypt.html): Prohibited. A statutory ban with a license clause no one has used.
- [El Salvador](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/el-salvador.html): Comprehensive. Legal tender walked back, the issuance framework kept.
- [European Union](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/european-union.html): Comprehensive. MiCA is fully in force, and the grace period is over.
- [Hong Kong](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/hong-kong.html): Comprehensive. Licensed exchanges, licensed stablecoins, and a tokenization push.
- [India](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/india.html): Partial. Taxed and surveilled, but still no framework.
- [Indonesia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/indonesia.html): Comprehensive. Supervision moved from the commodities agency to the OJK.
- [Israel](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/israel.html): Partial. Licensed service providers, taxed gains, framework still assembling.
- [Japan](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/japan.html): Comprehensive. The oldest licensing regime, now migrating to securities law.
- [Kenya](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/kenya.html): In transition. A new VASP statute splits the field between central bank and markets authority.
- [Malaysia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/malaysia.html): Comprehensive. Digital assets as securities, exchanges as recognized markets.
- [Mexico](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/mexico.html): Partial. A fintech law that fenced crypto out of the regulated system.
- [New Zealand](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/new-zealand.html): Partial. Fair-dealing law, AML coverage, and a crypto-ATM ban.
- [Nigeria](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/nigeria.html): Partial. From banking ban to securities statute, with enforcement whiplash.
- [Philippines](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/philippines.html): Comprehensive. Two regulators, one perimeter: BSP for VASPs, SEC for offerings.
- [Russia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/russia.html): Restrictive. Banned for domestic payments, licensed for mining, deployed for sanctions workarounds.
- [Saudi Arabia](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/saudi-arabia.html): Restrictive. Official discouragement, sandbox experimentation, quiet retail adoption.
- [Singapore](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/singapore.html): Comprehensive. Full licensing at home, and since 2025 a hard line on offshore-only firms.
- [South Africa](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/south-africa.html): Comprehensive. Crypto declared a financial product; hundreds of firms licensed.
- [South Korea](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/south-korea.html): Partial. Phase one protects users; phase two is stuck on stablecoins.
- [Switzerland](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/switzerland.html): Comprehensive. The DLT Act model: integrate, don't quarantine.
- [Taiwan](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/taiwan.html): In transition. AML registration now, a full VASP statute in the legislature.
- [Thailand](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/thailand.html): Comprehensive. A 2018 code, tightened for fraud and sweetened for tax.
- [Türkiye](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/turkiye.html): Comprehensive. A licensing regime built fast, atop a payments ban.
- [United Arab Emirates](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/united-arab-emirates.html): Comprehensive. Four regulators, one strategy: license everything, attract everyone.
- [United Kingdom](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/united-kingdom.html): In transition. The rulebook is written; the regime switches on October 25, 2027.
- [United States](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/united-states.html): Partial. One federal crypto statute in force, a second one floor vote away.
- [Vietnam](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/vietnam.html): In transition. First legal recognition, and a five-year market pilot.
- [Arizona](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-arizona.html): Partial. A budget-neutral reserve from unclaimed property, after vetoes of the bolder bills.
- [California](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-california.html): Comprehensive. DFAL is live: license, pending application, or exit.
- [Connecticut](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-connecticut.html): Partial. The counter-model: no state crypto holdings, tighter transmission rules.
- [Florida](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-florida.html): Partial. Money transmission with a virtual currency definition, and not much more, by choice.
- [Illinois](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-illinois.html): In transition. A Midwest BitLicense, enacted and phasing in.
- [Louisiana](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-louisiana.html): Comprehensive. A dedicated virtual currency license, quietly in force since 2023.
- [New Hampshire](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-new-hampshire.html): Partial. Exempt from transmission law, and first to fund a state crypto reserve.
- [New Jersey](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-new-jersey.html): No dedicated regime. Big market, borrowed rules: still no bespoke statute.
- [New York](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-new-york.html): Comprehensive. The BitLicense: strictest in the nation since 2015.
- [Texas](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-texas.html): Partial. Miner-friendly grid, exchange reserve rules, and a funded state bitcoin reserve.
- [Wyoming](https://cryptocurrencyregulations.com/us-wyoming.html): Comprehensive. The laboratory: SPDI banks, DAO law, and a state-issued stablecoin.