Forty-five jurisdictions, 112 statutes and rulebooks, every status call cited to the primary source. This is the board.
Every tracked country and state, graded on a six-point scale from ▲ comprehensive to ✕ prohibited. Click through for the statutes, the regulators, and the penalty exposure.
| Sym | Jurisdiction | Region | Status | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR | 🇦🇷Argentina | Americas | ▲Comprehensive | From registry to rulebook in eighteen months |
| AU | 🇦🇺Australia | Asia-Pacific | ◆In transition | Platform licensing enacted, switching on in April 2027 |
| BR | 🇧🇷Brazil | Americas | ▲Comprehensive | The framework law found its teeth in February 2026 |
| CA | 🇨🇦Canada | Americas | ▶Partial | Securities law stretched over crypto, and a federal stablecoin statute waiting to start |
| CL | 🇨🇱Chile | Americas | ▲Comprehensive | The Fintech Law folded crypto into financial regulation |
| CN | 🇨🇳China | Asia-Pacific | ✕Prohibited | A comprehensive ban beside the world's largest CBDC pilot |
| CO | 🇨🇴Colombia | Americas | –No dedicated regime | High adoption, repeated bills, no law |
| EG | 🇪🇬Egypt | Africa | ✕Prohibited | A statutory ban with a license clause no one has used |
| SV | 🇸🇻El Salvador | Americas | ▲Comprehensive | Legal tender walked back, the issuance framework kept |
| EU | 🇪🇺European Union | Europe | ▲Comprehensive | MiCA is fully in force, and the grace period is over |
| HK | 🇭🇰Hong Kong | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | Licensed exchanges, licensed stablecoins, and a tokenization push |
| IN | 🇮🇳India | Asia-Pacific | ▶Partial | Taxed and surveilled, but still no framework |
| ID | 🇮🇩Indonesia | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | Supervision moved from the commodities agency to the OJK |
| IL | 🇮🇱Israel | Middle East | ▶Partial | Licensed service providers, taxed gains, framework still assembling |
| JP | 🇯🇵Japan | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | The oldest licensing regime, now migrating to securities law |
| KE | 🇰🇪Kenya | Africa | ◆In transition | A new VASP statute splits the field between central bank and markets authority |
| MY | 🇲🇾Malaysia | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | Digital assets as securities, exchanges as recognized markets |
| MX | 🇲🇽Mexico | Americas | ▶Partial | A fintech law that fenced crypto out of the regulated system |
| NZ | 🇳🇿New Zealand | Asia-Pacific | ▶Partial | Fair-dealing law, AML coverage, and guardrails for crypto ATMs |
| NG | 🇳🇬Nigeria | Africa | ▶Partial | From banking ban to securities statute, with enforcement whiplash |
| PH | 🇵🇭Philippines | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | Two regulators, one perimeter: BSP for VASPs, SEC for offerings |
| RU | 🇷🇺Russia | Europe | ◆In transition | Trading legalized through licensed intermediaries, payments still banned |
| SA | 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia | Middle East | ▼Restrictive | Official discouragement, sandbox experimentation, quiet retail adoption |
| SG | 🇸🇬Singapore | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | Full licensing at home, and since 2025 a hard line on offshore-only firms |
| ZA | 🇿🇦South Africa | Africa | ▲Comprehensive | Crypto declared a financial product; hundreds of firms licensed |
| KR | 🇰🇷South Korea | Asia-Pacific | ▶Partial | Phase one protects users; phase two is stuck on stablecoins |
| CH | 🇨🇭Switzerland | Europe | ▲Comprehensive | The DLT Act model: integrate, don't quarantine |
| TW | 🇹🇼Taiwan | Asia-Pacific | ◆In transition | AML registration now, a licensing statute passed and awaiting its start date |
| TH | 🇹🇭Thailand | Asia-Pacific | ▲Comprehensive | A 2018 code, tightened for fraud and sweetened for tax |
| TR | 🇹🇷Türkiye | Europe | ▲Comprehensive | A licensing regime built fast, atop a payments ban |
| AE | 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates | Middle East | ▲Comprehensive | Four regulators, one strategy: license everything, attract everyone |
| UK | 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Europe | ◆In transition | The rulebook is written; the regime switches on October 25, 2027 |
| US | 🇺🇸United States | Americas | ▶Partial | One federal statute in force, a second stalled in the Senate, and the agencies writing the rulebook themselves |
| VN | 🇻🇳Vietnam | Asia-Pacific | ◆In transition | First legal recognition, and a five-year market pilot |
| AZ | Arizona | US State | ▶Partial | A budget-neutral reserve from unclaimed property, after vetoes of the bolder bills |
| CA | California | US State | ▲Comprehensive | DFAL is live: license, pending application, or exit |
| CT | Connecticut | US State | ▶Partial | The counter-model: no state crypto holdings, tighter transmission rules |
| FL | Florida | US State | ▶Partial | Money transmission for exchanges, and a 2026 state license for stablecoin issuers |
| IL | Illinois | US State | ◆In transition | A Midwest BitLicense, enacted and phasing in |
| LA | Louisiana | US State | ▲Comprehensive | A dedicated virtual currency license, quietly in force since 2023 |
| NH | New Hampshire | US State | ▶Partial | Exempt from transmission law, and first to authorize a state crypto reserve |
| NJ | New Jersey | US State | –No dedicated regime | Big market, borrowed rules: still no bespoke statute |
| NY | New York | US State | ▲Comprehensive | The BitLicense: strictest in the nation since 2015 |
| TX | Texas | US State | ▶Partial | Miner-friendly grid, exchange reserve rules, and a funded state bitcoin reserve |
| WY | Wyoming | US State | ▲Comprehensive | The laboratory: SPDI banks, DAO law, and a state-issued stablecoin |
The EU runs the only continental single rulebook, and its last grandfathering window closed on July 1, 2026. The United States has its first federal statute in the GENIUS Act, its first SEC crypto offering rule proposed on August 18, an SEC innovation exemption for tokenized stocks since September 17, and a market-structure bill that stalled in the Senate on September 15. The UK finalized its rules in June 2026 and turns them on in October 2027. Asia's licensing capitals, Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong, keep tightening while competing for the same institutions, Japan has voted to move crypto into securities law, Brazil put its central bank in charge in February 2026, and China's ban still shapes everything around it.
The Securities and Futures Commission and the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council signed a memorandum of understanding replacing their 2021 agreement, adding the financial reporting and audits of SFC-licensed virtual asset…
AB 2409 bars California officials and employees with procurement authority from issuing meme coins and, from January 1, 2027, bars service providers from offering residents meme coins tied to federal, state, or local officials…
Commissioner Peirce posted a resignation letter saying her last day is October 2, 2026, after which she joins Regent University School of Law. Her departure leaves Chair Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda as the only sitting…
The Division of Corporation Finance updated its crypto asset FAQs, building on the March 17 interpretive release. Marketing a system's current or planned features without promoting profit is generally not a representation…
The Board issued two proposals: a framework for payment stablecoin issuers that are subsidiaries of Board-supervised institutions, requiring full backing in short-term Treasury bills and other high-quality liquid assets…
Compliance dates and effective dates ahead. The full timeline back to 2024 is on the deadline calendar.
| Date | Status | Jurisdiction | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | Ahead | European Union | Comments close: Commission MiCA review consultation The targeted consultation on the review of MiCA, open since May 20, 2026, closes; the Commission's application report is due in 2027. |
| 2026-09-30 | Ahead | South Africa | Comments close: draft Crypto Assets Manual Treasury and the Reserve Bank's draft manual would require separate Reserve Bank authorisation for cross-border crypto asset services under exchange control. |
| 2026-09-30 | Ahead | United Kingdom | UK authorisation gateway opens FCA begins accepting applications under the new cryptoasset regime. |
| 2026-09-30 | Ahead | United States | Senate window for CLARITY floor action Cloture filed August 8; leadership targets floor consideration when the Senate returns, before the midterm calendar closes. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ahead | Brazil | Coaf reporting on self-custody transfers begins Resolution BCB 588: transfers to or from self-custody wallets of US$10,000 or more must be reported to Coaf by the next business day. |
| 2026-10-05 | Ahead | Russia | Bank of Russia registers open Directive 7429-U and Regulation 890-P take effect; exchangers and digital depositaries may apply for inclusion in the Bank of Russia registers. |
The register cut by subject rather than geography.
The most-regulated corner of crypto. Dedicated issuer regimes are now law in the United States (GENIUS Act), the EU (MiCA Titles III–IV), Hong Kong…
Follow the lane →Who licenses the venue, and which assets are securities. The EU answered with MiCA's CASP regime; the US answer rested on the CLARITY Act until it…
Follow the lane →The oldest and most universal layer. FATF's Recommendation 15 and travel rule set the baseline nearly everywhere; the EU enforces from the first euro…
Follow the lane →Reporting is going global. The OECD's CARF standard reaches first exchanges in 2027; the EU's DAC8 is live as of January 2026; US brokers began…
Follow the lane →The post-FTX agenda: segregation of client assets, bankruptcy priority, reserve attestations, and cold-storage minimums, written into VAUPA, MiCA…
Follow the lane →The unsolved perimeter. The Senate's 2026 CLARITY text carries the first US statutory DeFi framework; the EU deferred DeFi to MiCA's review; Wyoming…
Follow the lane →Two opposite state postures: banning a retail CBDC (US House, July 2025) while stockpiling bitcoin (the March 2025 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve order…
Follow the lane →Mining migrated to law-friendly grids after China's 2021 ban: US states passed right-to-mine statutes, Russia legalized and licensed industrial mining…
Follow the lane →Federal law is only half the American answer. Eleven state regimes, from the BitLicense to Texas's funded bitcoin reserve: Arizona · California · Connecticut · Florida · Illinois · Louisiana · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · Texas · Wyoming. Overview on the state tracker.
20 of the 45 jurisdictions in this register run a dedicated licensing framework that is in force, including the European Union under MiCA, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UAE, Switzerland, Brazil, and Türkiye. The United Kingdom is in transition: its rules are final but the regime takes full effect in October 2027.
Yes. Buying, holding, and trading crypto is legal in all 50 states. The GENIUS Act regulates payment stablecoin issuers at the federal level, the CLARITY Act, which would divide market-structure jurisdiction between the SEC and CFTC, stalled when the Senate rejected cloture on September 15, 2026; the SEC proposed its first crypto offering rule on August 18 and issued an innovation exemption for tokenized stocks on September 17; and state licensing applies through regimes like New York’s BitLicense and California’s DFAL. See US crypto law, answered.
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 is the EU’s single rulebook: it licenses crypto-asset service providers and stablecoin issuers across all 27 member states, fully applicable since December 30, 2024, with the last national grandfathering periods ended on July 1, 2026. It applies to any firm serving EU customers, wherever incorporated. Full analysis on the EU page and in MiCA vs the US.
Outright prohibitions among tracked jurisdictions: China (all trading, issuance, and mining) and Egypt (statutory ban with an unused licensing clause). Saudi Arabia is restrictive rather than prohibitionist: holding is lawful but core activity is barred or channelled through narrow state-controlled routes. Russia left that category in September 2026, when a new law legalized trading through licensed intermediaries while keeping domestic crypto payments banned.
The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act, signed July 18, 2025, is the first US federal crypto statute: payment stablecoin issuers must be licensed federally or under certified state regimes, hold 1:1 reserves in cash and Treasuries, publish monthly reserve disclosures, and may not pay yield on the coin itself. Licensing obligations take effect January 18, 2027, and from July 18, 2028 service providers may not offer unlicensed payment stablecoins to US persons. Treasury’s implementing proposal is open for comment until October 19, 2026. Details on the US page.
Every jurisdiction page cites primary sources: statutes, regulator rulebooks, and official gazettes. Status calls follow a six-grade scale explained on each page, and the full dataset is published machine-readable at register.json and llms-full.txt. Last full review: September 28, 2026. Corrections: contact.