{ "jurisdiction_id": "US-MO", "jurisdiction": "United States – Missouri", "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-missouri/", "generator": "render_jid v13.3.0", "date_modified": "2026-08-17", "schema_version": "crypto-v2.0.0", "counts": { "modules": 8, "sourced_findings": 11, "source_register": 10 }, "modules": [ { "code": "crypto_licensing", "name": "Crypto Licensing", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-missouri/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing", "standing_position": "Missouri has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Virtual-currency exchange, custody and transmission businesses are captured under Missouri's general money-transmitter licensing regime, administered through the multistate NMLS infrastructure, rather than a dedicated 'BitLicense'-style instrument. The precise state statutory citation and any crypto-specific carve-outs could not be independently confirmed via retrievable primary source in this run and should be escalated for direct statutory verification. Separately, state-level scrutiny of virtual-currency kiosk operators has been exercised primarily through consumer-protection litigation rather than licensing enforcement.", "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-missouri/#token-classification-token-classification", "standing_position": "Missouri defers token-as-security/commodity characterization to the federal SEC/CFTC framework rather than maintaining an independent state taxonomy. Within that federal overlay, the Missouri Secretary of State's Securities Division actively enforces the state's blue-sky (Missouri Securities Act) regime against crypto-investment offerings that meet the security definition and are marketed to Missouri residents.", "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/united-states-missouri/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime", "standing_position": "Missouri has no bespoke statute addressing crypto mining, staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, node operation, validator activity or tokenization. A 2023 legislative effort to grant statutory protections to crypto-mining operations (comparable to laws enacted in Arkansas and Montana) died without passage, leaving miners subject only to general business, zoning and utility law. No evidence of subsequent enactment was found.", "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-missouri/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime", "standing_position": "Missouri has not enacted a state-specific stablecoin issuance-authorisation, reserve, redemption, disclosure or systemic-designation regime. Payment stablecoin issuance nationally, including for issuers serving Missouri residents, is governed by the federal GENIUS Act framework, which preempts the need for a Missouri-specific regime for compliant federally-permitted issuers. Implementation of GENIUS Act rules was still being finalized as of the most recent available reporting.", "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/united-states-missouri/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection", "standing_position": "Missouri's principal live consumer-protection vector for crypto is Attorney General enforcement against virtual-currency kiosk (crypto-ATM) operators under general state consumer-protection law, driven by a documented and rising volume of fraud complaints. No crypto-specific marketing-restriction, custody-segregation or suitability statute distinct from this general enforcement posture has been identified.", "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/united-states-missouri/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment", "standing_position": "No Missouri-specific statute altering the treatment of cryptocurrency for state tax purposes was identified in this pass. Missouri state income tax is generally understood to follow federal adjusted-gross-income conformity, implying that federal property/capital-gains characterization of crypto would flow through by default absent contrary state guidance, but this inference could not be independently confirmed against a live Missouri Department of Revenue source in this run and should be escalated.", "findings": [ { "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-missouri/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer", "standing_position": "Missouri imposes no identified state-specific restriction on cross-border transfer of virtual currency. Applicable controls derive from the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN framework, including the Travel Rule and 2025 FinCEN guidance specifically flagging convertible-virtual-currency kiosks as a vector for illicit cross-border fund movement — a typology directly relevant given Missouri's documented crypto-ATM fraud caseload.", "findings": [ { "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/united-states-missouri/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime", "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations applicable to Missouri-based virtual-asset businesses are sourced via the fleet's shared Financial Integrity Module (FIM) aml_ctf subscription and are not duplicated in this crypto baseline, per the module subscription reminder. As disambiguation context only: FinCEN is the primary federal AML/CFT regulator for money-services businesses, including Missouri-licensed money transmitters engaged in virtual-currency activity, and has issued kiosk-specific typology guidance relevant to Missouri's active crypto-ATM caseload.", "findings": [] } ] }