Connecticut legislated the opposite of the reserve trend. HB 7082, signed in mid-2025 and effective October 1, 2025, prohibits state and local government from accepting, holding, or investing in virtual currency and from establishing a crypto reserve, the first categorical state ban of its kind, while simultaneously tightening the existing money-transmission coverage of crypto: enhanced disclosures for virtual currency customers, parental-consent requirements for minors, and new duties and transaction limits for crypto kiosks aimed at elder-fraud patterns. Crypto businesses have needed Connecticut money transmitter licenses under Banking Department interpretation for years; the 2025 act writes the consumer-protection layer into statute.
The instruments
HB 7082: state crypto prohibition and money transmission amendments
Bars state and municipal acceptance, holding, or investment of virtual currency; adds disclosure, receipt, and refund duties for virtual currency money transmitters; and imposes kiosk transaction limits and warnings targeting fraud against older customers.