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   "standing_position": "Qatar runs a genuine dual-track regime. Outside the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) maintains a blanket prohibition on virtual-asset trading, exchange and mining; the QCB first declared bitcoin trading illegal in 2018 and the QFCRA separately confirmed a ban on Virtual Asset Services for Authorised Firms in/from the QFC (2019/2021) under QFC Law No. 7 of 2005 and the Financial Services Regulations. This mainland/free-zone split narrowed materially on 1 September 2024 when the QFC Authority and QFCRA launched the QFC Digital Assets Framework 2024 (Digital Assets Regulations 2024), under which firms may now apply for a Token Service Provider (TSP) licence within the QFC perimeter. The interaction between the pre-existing QFCRA VAS ban and the new licensed TSP pathway has not been fully clarified in public materials and is flagged for escalation.",
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   "standing_position": "The QFC Digital Assets Framework introduces a 'Permitted Tokens' taxonomy covering tokens representing electronic money, fiat currencies, and tokens allowing access to goods or services, alongside a distinct 'Investment Token' category subject to QFCRA authorisation. Mainland Qatar has no token classification taxonomy because virtual assets are prohibited outright outside the QFC perimeter.",
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   "standing_position": "The QCB prohibition explicitly extends to virtual-asset mining outside the QFC. Within the QFC, the Digital Assets Framework legally recognises tokenization and property rights in tokens, but no Qatar-specific rules for staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, node operation or validator activity were identified in public sources as of this research pass.",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/qatar/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime",
   "standing_position": "The QFC's Permitted Tokens taxonomy appears to encompass fiat-referenced/e-money-type tokens, implying stablecoin-like instruments fall within the Digital Assets Framework's licensing perimeter, but no explicit reserve, redemption or systemic-designation rules specific to stablecoins were located. On the mainland, stablecoin issuance is barred under the general virtual-asset prohibition.",
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   "standing_position": "Mainland consumer protection is achieved via prohibition: the QCB has publicly cited volatility and financial-crime risk as rationale for barring virtual-asset trading. Within the QFC, the Digital Assets Framework's custody-arrangement provisions and its stated aim of 'trust and confidence among consumers, service providers, and industry stakeholders' provide the consumer-protection backbone.",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/qatar/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment",
   "standing_position": "Qatar-specific crypto tax guidance was not located. The only sourced material is the general QFC tax regime (10% standard corporate tax rate, exemption for capital gains on disposal of shareholdings of 10% or more, no other QFC taxes), which is not crypto-specific and would apply to QFC-licensed digital-asset businesses only by general operation of the QFC tax rules rather than by a bespoke crypto tax instrument. Mainland personal/VAT treatment of virtual assets was not researched.",
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   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
   "name": "Cross-Border Transfer",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/qatar/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer",
   "standing_position": "The mainland prohibition effectively forecloses regulated outbound crypto transfer activity by QCB-supervised entities outside the QFC. No Qatar-specific Travel Rule instrument or cross-border digital-asset reporting threshold was located for either the mainland or the QFC free-zone; FATF's global 2026 update notes broad progress on Travel Rule adoption across jurisdictions generally but does not confirm Qatar-specific implementation.",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/qatar/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime",
   "standing_position": "Crypto subscribes to the FIM aml_ctf module for AML/CFT content. Per station instructions, AML/CFT-specific claims are not produced in this crypto baseline to avoid duplication; disambiguation context only is noted: Qatar's AML/CFT Law No. 20 of 2019 applies to all QFC entities, and FATF's 2023 mutual evaluation and 2026 targeted update discuss Qatar's VASP-prohibition enforcement record. Full AML/CFT claims live in the FIM aml_ctf module, not here.",
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