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   "standing_position": "Senegal has no comprehensive national crypto-licensing regime; the applicable regulator is the regional BCEAO, which covers Senegal and seven other WAEMU/UEMOA states. BCEAO confirmed in July 2026 that a MiCA-inspired regional crypto-asset regulation remains in preparation with no publication date set. Separately, Senegal's national AML law (Loi n°2024-08 du 14 février 2024) extends reporting-entity obligations to virtual-asset service providers (PSAV), requiring them to obtain authorisation or register with a competent authority before operating — but that competent authority has not yet been designated. BCEAO's existing restriction targets WAEMU-licensed banks and financial institutions offering crypto services directly to clients; it does not prohibit private individuals or companies from holding or trading crypto peer-to-peer.",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/senegal/#token-classification-token-classification",
   "standing_position": "Neither BCEAO nor Senegalese national law has published a binding taxonomy distinguishing token categories (security token, e-money token, asset-referenced token, utility token, stablecoin, NFT). Crypto-assets are treated generically as non-legal-tender and unregulated pending the WAEMU crypto-asset framework under preparation.",
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   "standing_position": "No BCEAO or Senegalese national regulation addresses staking, DeFi lending, DEX activity, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenization. This remains an unregulated gap pending the WAEMU crypto-asset framework, whose drafting committee (C-CRYPTO) was announced in May 2026.",
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   "standing_position": "No WAEMU or Senegal-specific stablecoin issuance, reserve, redemption, disclosure or systemic-designation regime exists. BCEAO acknowledged stablecoins conceptually in July 2026 remarks but has not issued binding stablecoin-specific rules.",
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   "code": "consumer_protection",
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   "standing_position": "BCEAO has repeatedly issued public risk warnings characterising crypto-assets as volatile, cross-border, anonymous and cybersecurity-exposed, but no binding crypto-specific consumer-protection rules (marketing restriction, custody segregation, complaint handling, suitability) exist at the WAEMU or Senegal level.",
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   "name": "Tax Treatment",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/senegal/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment",
   "standing_position": "Senegal has no dedicated crypto-asset tax provision. Secondary industry analysis indicates the DGID applies the securities capital-gains regime to crypto disposals by analogy, but this has not been confirmed against a primary DGID circular and confidence is capped accordingly. Standard corporate income tax (30% of taxable profit) and VAT (18% standard rate) apply to businesses conducting crypto-related commercial activity as they would to any other commercial activity.",
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   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
   "name": "Cross-Border Transfer",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/senegal/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer",
   "standing_position": "UEMOA Règlement N°06/2024/CM/UEMOA (adopted 20 December 2024, superseding Règlement n°09/2010/CM/UEMOA) governs external financial relations for WAEMU member states including Senegal — covering international transfers, repatriation of export proceeds, domiciliation of service transactions of 20 million FCFA or more, and non-resident account rules — but contains no crypto-specific provisions. General foreign-exchange domiciliation and reporting-threshold rules apply to fiat-currency flows; no restriction specifically targets private cross-border peer-to-peer crypto-asset transfers.",
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   "code": "aml_cft_regime",
   "name": "AML/CFT Regime",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/senegal/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime",
   "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations are produced under the FIM consumer's aml_ctf baseline and are not duplicated here. For disambiguation only: Senegal's Loi n°2024-08 du 14 février 2024 (transposing UEMOA Directive 01/2023/CM/UEMOA) extended AML/CFT reporting-entity obligations to virtual-asset service providers (PSAV) under FATF Recommendation 15, a genuine national-level anchor distinct from the BCEAO regional licensing gap; the competent supervisory authority for PSAV has not yet been designated.",
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