{ "jurisdiction_id": "US-GA", "jurisdiction": "United States – Georgia", "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/", "generator": "render_jid v13.3.0", "date_modified": "2026-08-17", "schema_version": "crypto-v2.0.0", "counts": { "modules": 7, "sourced_findings": 20, "source_register": 13 }, "modules": [ { "code": "crypto_licensing", "name": "Crypto Licensing", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing", "standing_position": "Georgia has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Virtual-currency exchange, custody, and money-transmission businesses operating in or from Georgia are regulated under the state's general money-transmitter licensing law, administered by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance via the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). The precise O.C.G.A. citation and any crypto-specific carve-outs within that statute could not be independently confirmed against a live statutory text source in this research pass; this remains a verification gap flagged for primary-source escalation.", "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": "token_classification", "name": "Token Classification", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/#token-classification-token-classification", "standing_position": "Georgia does not operate an independent state-level token-classification regime. Token characterization for securities purposes is governed by federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction applying the Howey investment-contract test, with the Georgia Secretary of State's Securities Division enforcing state Blue Sky anti-fraud/registration law consistent with, rather than independent of, federal characterization. In 2026 the SEC issued interpretive guidance narrowing the circumstances in which a crypto asset is treated as part of an investment-contract security.", "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": "on_chain_activity_regime", "name": "On-Chain Activity Regime", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime", "standing_position": "Georgia has no state-specific licensing or regulatory framework addressing staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, node/validator operation, or tokenization. Bitcoin mining has a substantial commercial footprint in Georgia (large immersion-cooled facilities), but is treated as ordinary industrial/commercial activity rather than a separately licensed crypto activity, subject only to general business, tax, and (where applicable) money-transmission law.", "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": "stablecoin_regime", "name": "Stablecoin Regime", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime", "standing_position": "Stablecoin regulation touching Georgia is governed by the federal GENIUS Act framework rather than a bespoke Georgia stablecoin statute. Issuance authorisation, reserve, and disclosure requirements attach at the federal level (or via state-chartered bank/trust issuers under that federal framework), not through an independent Georgia-specific stablecoin law.", "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 }, { "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/united-states-georgia/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection", "standing_position": "Georgia consumer protection over crypto activity operates through general state consumer-protection and securities anti-fraud law rather than a dedicated crypto consumer-protection statute. Federal frameworks (the enacted GENIUS Act and the still-pending Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act) carry embedded consumer- and developer-protection provisions that would apply to Georgia residents once/if in force.", "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": "tax_treatment", "name": "Tax Treatment", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-georgia/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment", "standing_position": "No enacted Georgia-specific crypto tax statute was confirmed. A 2022 Georgia bill (HB 1342) proposed exempting electricity used in commercial digital-asset mining from sales/use tax, and a separate proposal to allow state tax payments in cryptocurrency failed to advance out of committee. At the federal level, several crypto tax bills (Digital Asset PARITY Act, House Ways and Means drafts) remained pending as of mid-2026 and would affect Georgia taxpayers once enacted.", "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/united-states-georgia/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer", "standing_position": "Cross-border crypto transfers touching Georgia residents and businesses are governed by federal FinCEN funds-transfer/travel-rule recordkeeping requirements and federal OFAC sanctions-compliance obligations rather than any Georgia-specific cross-border crypto rule. Georgia's general money-transmitter law does not layer an independent cross-border restriction on top of the federal regime.", "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 } ] } ] }