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   "standing_position": "South Carolina has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing regime. Crypto exchanges, custodians, and other money-transmission-type crypto businesses fall under the state's general money-transmitter licensing law, administered by the South Carolina Department of Banking/Financial Institutions and processed through NMLS. In 2026 the state enacted S.163, a pro-crypto/anti-CBDC statute, which carves several crypto activities out of money-transmitter licensing entirely (mining, node operation, on-chain application development, and crypto-to-crypto trading), while custodial/fiat-conversion crypto activity remains subject to standard MTL licensure.",
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   "standing_position": "South Carolina has not enacted a state-specific token-classification framework. Characterization of digital assets as securities, commodities, or other regulated instruments for SC-based businesses is governed by federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction rather than any SC statute, per the disambiguation guidance for this JID.",
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   "standing_position": "S.163 (2026) introduces South Carolina's first statutory definitions for blockchain, digital assets, crypto mining, staking, wallets, and nodes, and specifically exempts mining and node operation from money-transmitter licensure while protecting mining operations from certain local restrictions. The law does not create bespoke state regimes for staking-as-a-service, DeFi lending, DEX operation, validator services, or tokenization, which remain unaddressed at the state level.",
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   "name": "Stablecoin Regime",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-south-carolina/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime",
   "standing_position": "South Carolina has no independent state stablecoin-issuance regime. Payment stablecoins issued to South Carolina residents/businesses are governed by the federal GENIUS Act (signed into law July 18, 2025), which establishes issuance-authorization pathways (bank-affiliated, OCC-supervised nonbank, or state-qualified issuer routes), 1:1 high-quality-liquid-asset reserve backing, par-value redemption rights, and monthly reserve disclosure. Implementing rules from the OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, NCUA, and Treasury remain proposals as of mid-2026, and the statute's operative provisions take effect on the earlier of 120 days after final implementing rules or January 18, 2027.",
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   "code": "consumer_protection",
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-south-carolina/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection",
   "standing_position": "South Carolina's S.163 (2026) creates limited consumer-facing crypto protections: it bars prohibitions on individuals/businesses accepting digital assets as payment and on using self-hosted or hardware wallets for self-custody. Beyond these self-custody and payment-acceptance protections, South Carolina has not enacted crypto-specific marketing-restriction, suitability, or complaint-handling rules; general state consumer-protection law and federal securities-disclosure rules apply by default.",
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   "code": "tax_treatment",
   "name": "Tax Treatment",
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   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-south-carolina/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment",
   "standing_position": "S.163 exempts cryptocurrency used as a means of payment from any additional state or local tax, withholding, assessment, or charge in South Carolina, beyond what would apply to an equivalent fiat-currency transaction. General state income-tax treatment of crypto capital gains otherwise follows federal (IRS) characterization absent SC-specific guidance.",
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   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
   "name": "Cross-Border Transfer",
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   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-south-carolina/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer",
   "standing_position": "South Carolina has not enacted state-specific outbound-restriction, sanctions-nexus, or cross-border reporting rules for crypto transfers. Cross-border movement of digital assets by SC-based persons is governed by federal OFAC sanctions programs and FinCEN's cross-border currency/CVC reporting and travel-rule framework rather than any SC-specific statute.",
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   "code": "aml_cft_regime",
   "name": "AML/CFT Regime",
   "confidence": null,
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   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-south-carolina/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime",
   "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations applicable to South Carolina-based virtual-asset businesses are governed by the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN money-services-business framework, which this crypto baseline subscribes to via the fleet's Financial Integrity Module (FIM) rather than producing natively here. No South Carolina-specific AML statute beyond the general MTL law's standard compliance conditions was identified in this research pass; this module is emitted for structural completeness only and defers substantive AML/CFT claims to the FIM.",
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