Effective
Oct 1, 2024
Dubai VARA rules for marketing virtual assets and VA activities in or targeting the UAE, effective Oct. 1,...
Policy Reference
Licensing & Registration
Crypto law profiles, official sources, milestones, and related coverage for Licensing & Registration.
Effective
Jun 19, 2025
Dubai VARA rulebook governing business issuance of virtual assets, including Category 1 licensed issuances, Category 2 distributor-led issuances,...
Effective
Jun 19, 2025
Dubai’s VARA framework for VASP licensing, VA issuance, AML/CFT, market conduct, marketing, supervision and enforcement. Current rulebook version...
Effective
Jan 1, 2026
UK CARF rules requiring reporting cryptoasset service providers to collect user and transaction data, report to HMRC, register,...
Partially effective
Oct 25, 2027
UK regime bringing fiat-referenced stablecoin issuance and cryptoasset custody into FCA regulation under FSMA. SI 2026/102 is made;...
Effective
Mar 18, 2013
AML/CFT Custody Licensing & Registration +2 more
FinCEN’s BSA regime treating certain CVC administrators and exchangers as money transmitters/MSBs, with registration, AML program, SAR, CTR,...
In committee
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Commodities Consumer protection Custody +2 more
Pending U.S. proposal to amend the Commodity Exchange Act with a CFTC spot-market framework for digital commodity exchanges,...
Expired
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H.R. 4763 would have created a U.S. digital asset market-structure framework allocating CFTC and SEC authority. It passed...
Effective
Mar 18, 2013
FinCEN’s 2013 guidance applies BSA money-transmitter rules to many convertible virtual currency administrators and exchangers while excluding ordinary...
Effective
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FinCEN’s 2019 CVC guidance explains how U.S. BSA money services business rules apply to common virtual currency business...
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