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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing",
   "standing_position": "Egypt operates a de facto prohibition on crypto-asset activity. Article 206 of the Central Bank of Egypt and Banking Sector Law No. 194 of 2020 prohibits issuing, dealing in, or promoting cryptocurrencies (and creating or operating platforms for trading them) without a license from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE). The CBE has never issued the licensing framework or implementing regulations contemplated by the law, so no lawful path to licensed crypto activity currently exists notwithstanding a 2019 proposal to allow CBE-issued licenses.",
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   "code": "token_classification",
   "name": "Token Classification",
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   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#token-classification-token-classification",
   "standing_position": "Egyptian banking law provides only a broad, non-granular definition of 'cryptocurrency' as distinguished from 'electronic money,' with no MiCA-style taxonomy (no distinct security/utility/stablecoin/NFT categories in binding law). Classification therefore defaults to 'unclassified' pending any CBE or FRA taxonomy.",
   "findings": [
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  {
   "code": "on_chain_activity_regime",
   "name": "On-Chain Activity Regime",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime",
   "standing_position": "No CBE or FRA guidance specifically addresses staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node operation, validating, or tokenization. However, the 2020 banking law's prohibition extends to 'the creation of operation of platforms for trading or carrying out activities related to' cryptocurrencies without a CBE license, which by its plain terms would sweep in most on-chain activity (including mining and platform operation) absent licensing.",
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   "code": "stablecoin_regime",
   "name": "Stablecoin Regime",
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   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime",
   "standing_position": "There is no operative private stablecoin issuance/authorisation framework in Egypt. The 2020 banking law reserves to the CBE the exclusive power to regulate, and potentially establish, an Egyptian central-bank-issued digital currency/stablecoin, but no reserve, redemption, disclosure, or systemic-designation rules for privately issued stablecoins have been published.",
   "findings": [
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   "code": "consumer_protection",
   "name": "Consumer Protection",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection",
   "standing_position": "No dedicated consumer-protection or risk-disclosure regime specific to crypto-asset users has been issued by the CBE or the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA); consumer exposure to unlicensed crypto trading occurs outside any formal custody-segregation or complaint-handling framework, as illustrated by repeated fraud enforcement actions (e.g., the 2023 'HoggPool' mining-scam prosecution).",
   "findings": [
    {
     "finding": null,
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  {
   "code": "tax_treatment",
   "name": "Tax Treatment",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment",
   "standing_position": "No Egyptian Tax Authority guidance specifically addressing capital gains, income tax, VAT/GST, or withholding treatment of crypto-asset transactions was identified in this research pass. Given the underlying activity is itself unlicensed/prohibited under the 2020 banking law, no operative tax regime for crypto has been published.",
   "findings": []
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  {
   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
   "name": "Cross-Border Transfer",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer",
   "standing_position": "Egypt maintains strict foreign-exchange oversight under CBE authority; cross-border crypto-asset transfers conducted without CBE licensing fall within the general statutory prohibition on unlicensed dealing in cryptocurrencies. No crypto-specific reporting-threshold or travel-rule cross-border framework has been published.",
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   "code": "aml_cft_regime",
   "name": "AML/CFT Regime",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/egypt/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime",
   "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations are governed at the fleet level by the shared Financial Integrity Module (FIM) 'aml_ctf' baseline and are out of scope for this crypto consumer baseline per module subscription rules. For disambiguation only: Egypt's AML/CFT supervisory landscape splits between the CBE (banks, money-transfer entities, exchange companies) and the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA, non-bank financial activities), coordinated by the Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit (EMLCU), per MENAFATF's mutual evaluation of Egypt.",
   "findings": [
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     "finding": null,
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