{ "jurisdiction_id": "DO", "jurisdiction": "Dominican Republic", "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/", "generator": "render_jid v13.3.0", "date_modified": "2026-08-17", "schema_version": "crypto-v2.0.0", "counts": { "modules": 8, "sourced_findings": 14, "source_register": 11 }, "modules": [ { "code": "crypto_licensing", "name": "Crypto Licensing", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing", "standing_position": "The Dominican Republic has no dedicated crypto-asset licensing statute. The Junta Monetaria's Resolución JM 210129-02 (29 January 2021) and reiterated BCRD communiqués establish that virtual assets are unregulated, unsupervised, and enjoy no legal protection. Regulated banks and credit unions are separately restricted by the Superintendencia de Bancos (SB) from facilitating crypto transactions, but this binds only supervised institutions, not private individuals. SIMV treats crypto trading and offerings as falling outside the Ley de Mercado de Valores No. 249-17 perimeter, i.e., not requiring securities registration.", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "token_classification", "name": "Token Classification", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#token-classification-token-classification", "standing_position": "Dominican regulation does not adopt a differentiated token taxonomy. Resolución JM 210129-02, Art. 4(a) defines a single undifferentiated 'Activo Virtual' category encompassing all cryptoassets, with no distinction between security tokens, e-money tokens, asset-referenced tokens, utility tokens, stablecoins, or NFTs.", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "on_chain_activity_regime", "name": "On-Chain Activity Regime", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime", "standing_position": "No Dominican regulator has issued rules specific to on-chain activities such as staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node operation, validation, or tokenization. These activities remain within the general unregulated/unsupervised 'activo virtual' posture established by BCRD/Junta Monetaria, with no activity-specific instrument identified in this pass.", "findings": [] }, { "code": "stablecoin_regime", "name": "Stablecoin Regime", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime", "standing_position": "No stablecoin-specific issuance authorisation, reserve requirement, redemption right, disclosure, or systemic designation regime exists in the Dominican Republic. Stablecoins are not distinguished from other cryptoassets and fall within the same unregulated 'Activo Virtual' category confirmed by BCRD communiqués.", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "consumer_protection", "name": "Consumer Protection", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection", "standing_position": "There is no crypto-specific consumer protection statute. SIMV issues public risk-disclosure warnings about unregulated investment schemes (including crypto/FOREX/Ponzi-type structures) under its Circular 02/23 warning framework, and SB issues 'Circulares de Advertencia' identifying entities that misrepresent themselves as authorized financial or exchange intermediaries, a mechanism capable of capturing unauthorized crypto-related schemes.", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "tax_treatment", "name": "Tax Treatment", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment", "standing_position": "DGII Consulta 20-Criptomonedas (10 October 2023) is a genuine primary tax ruling confirming that gains from converting cryptoassets into pesos or other recognized liquid assets are taxable income under Código Tributario Arts. 267, 268, 296 and 297. The same ruling confirms no dedicated transaction-reporting registry exists for crypto activity. VAT/ITBIS treatment of simple peer-to-peer crypto exchange remains an open, unresolved question in DGII's own consulta record.", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "cross_border_transfer", "name": "Cross-Border Transfer", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer", "standing_position": "BCRD confirms virtual assets are not treated as foreign currency under the exchange-rate regime, meaning crypto conversion sits outside standard FX controls. No crypto-specific cross-border reporting threshold exists. The FATF/GAFILAT Mutual Evaluation confirms general AML/CFT cross-border cooperation among BCRD, SB, SIMV and DGII, but does not extend this explicitly to virtual-asset transfers (context only; substantive AML claims are subscribed from FIM).", "findings": [ { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null }, { "finding": null, "instrument_type": null, "source": null, "source_url": null, "source_tier": null, "retrieved_at": null } ] }, { "code": "aml_cft_regime", "name": "AML/CFT Regime", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/dominican-republic/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime", "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations are subscribed from the FIM (financial-integrity) module per fleet doctrine; no substantive aml_cft_regime claims are produced in this baseline. For disambiguation context only: SB Circular Núm. 005/22 (Instructivo sobre Debida Diligencia, 3rd version) defines 'Proveedor de Servicio de Activo Virtual' at §2.50 and governs how supervised EIF/cambiario/fiduciary entities apply customer due diligence to virtual-asset counterparties; it is a due-diligence circular, not a licensing or ban instrument.", "findings": [] } ] }