{ "jurisdiction_id": "US-NE", "jurisdiction": "United States – Nebraska", "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-nebraska/", "generator": "render_jid v13.3.0", "date_modified": "2026-08-17", "schema_version": "crypto-v2.0.0", "counts": { "modules": 8, "sourced_findings": 16, "source_register": 9 }, "modules": [ { "code": "crypto_licensing", "name": "Crypto Licensing", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-nebraska/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing", "standing_position": "Nebraska has no bespoke, comprehensive crypto-asset licensing statute distinct from its general money-transmitter regime. Virtual-currency exchange, kiosk/ATM, and custody businesses are captured under the Nebraska Money Transmitters Act, administered by the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance via the NMLS multistate licensing infrastructure. In 2025 Nebraska added a crypto-kiosk-specific overlay (LB609, the Controllable Electronic Record Fraud Prevention Act) mandating MTL licensure and fraud-warning disclosures for kiosk operators, and separately (2021) created an optional digital-asset bank charter (Financial Innovation Act, LB649) as an alternative institutional pathway for custody-focused entities.", "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": "token_classification", "name": "Token Classification", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-nebraska/#token-classification-token-classification", "standing_position": "Nebraska has not enacted a state-specific token classification framework (security token, e-money token, ART, utility token, stablecoin, or NFT). Characterization of a digital asset for securities or commodities purposes remains a matter of federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction (see US JID), not Nebraska state law. State involvement is limited to whether an activity constitutes money transmission for licensing purposes, which does not itself classify the underlying token.", "findings": [ { "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-nebraska/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime", "standing_position": "Nebraska has no statute specifically addressing staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenization. To the extent such activity involves custodial control of customer funds or virtual currency, it may fall within the general Money Transmitters Act's scope, but no dedicated on-chain-activity regime or exemption schedule 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 }, { "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-nebraska/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime", "standing_position": "Nebraska's principal stablecoin-adjacent instrument is the Financial Innovation Act (LB649, 2021), which permits state-chartered digital-asset banks to custody/issue digital assets under a 100%-reserve, no-fiat-lending model, with fiat reserves required to be held at an FDIC-insured institution. Federally, the GENIUS Act (signed July 18, 2025) now establishes the first comprehensive U.S. payment-stablecoin framework (issuance authorisation, reserve, redemption, and disclosure requirements), but implementing rules from the OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC and NCUA remain pending, with operative effect no later than January 18, 2027 or 120 days after final rules, whichever is earlier. Nebraska has not yet sought or received GENIUS Act 'substantially similar' state-regime certification.", "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-nebraska/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection", "standing_position": "Nebraska's principal crypto consumer-protection instrument is LB609 (Controllable Electronic Record Fraud Prevention Act, 2025), which mandates fraud-warning disclosures and full terms disclosure for crypto kiosk operators. The Financial Innovation Act (LB649) separately requires that digital assets custodied by a chartered digital-asset bank not be treated as depository liabilities or general assets of the bank, functioning as a custody-segregation safeguard.", "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-nebraska/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment", "standing_position": "Nebraska has not enacted a crypto-specific tax statute. Nebraska's individual income tax base begins from federal adjusted gross income, so the federal treatment of virtual currency as property (IRS Notice 2014-21, general baseline referenced in secondary sources) generally flows through to state taxable income, with gains/losses on disposition subject to ordinary state income tax rates rather than a distinct crypto capital-gains regime. Nebraska-specific administrative guidance on crypto (e.g., a Department of Revenue ruling or bulletin) has not been independently located and should be treated as an open item.", "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": "cross_border_transfer", "name": "Cross-Border Transfer", "confidence": null, "moved_this_cycle": false, "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-nebraska/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer", "standing_position": "Nebraska imposes no state-specific outbound restriction, reporting threshold, or cross-border travel-rule requirement on crypto-asset transfers beyond what is already required federally. Cross-border crypto transfers by Nebraska-licensed money transmitters are governed by federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN travel-rule obligations and OFAC sanctions screening, not by an independent state cross-border regime.", "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-nebraska/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime", "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations (KYC/CDD, travel rule, SAR/STR reporting, sanctions screening, record-keeping, risk assessment) are governed under this consumer's subscription to the FIM aml_ctf module and are intentionally not re-litigated as standalone claims in this crypto baseline. For disambiguation context only: Nebraska money-transmitter licensees are subject to federal FinCEN Bank Secrecy Act obligations (registration as an MSB, travel rule, SAR filing) layered on top of any state licensing requirement; FinCEN's May 2025 kiosk-fraud notice (FIN-2025-NTC1) is a relevant federal supervisory signal for crypto ATM operators in this state.", "findings": [] } ] }