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   "name": "Crypto Licensing",
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   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#crypto-licensing-crypto-licensing",
   "standing_position": "West Virginia has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Crypto exchanges and custody businesses are regulated under the state's general money-transmitter licensing law, administered by the state's banking/financial-institutions authority and processed through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). Verification of the specific statutory citation and any crypto-specific carve-outs remains open (seed caution flag honoured).",
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   "code": "token_classification",
   "name": "Token Classification",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#token-classification-token-classification",
   "standing_position": "West Virginia has no state-level crypto token taxonomy. Token characterisation for securities purposes is governed by federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, applied uniformly regardless of state MTL licensing status, per the seed disambiguation.",
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  {
   "code": "on_chain_activity_regime",
   "name": "On-Chain Activity Regime",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#on-chain-activity-regime-on-chain-activity-regime",
   "standing_position": "No West Virginia-specific statute addressing mining, staking, validator operation, DeFi, or tokenization activity has been identified in this pass. Several other states (e.g. Kentucky, South Carolina) have enacted mining/self-custody protection statutes; West Virginia has not been confirmed to have an equivalent as of the dispatch date.",
   "findings": [
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   "code": "stablecoin_regime",
   "name": "Stablecoin Regime",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#stablecoin-regime-stablecoin-regime",
   "standing_position": "West Virginia has no state-specific stablecoin statute. The federal GENIUS Act (enacted 2025) establishes the applicable payment-stablecoin framework nationwide, including West Virginia, covering issuance authorisation, reserve backing, and consumer-protection provisions.",
   "findings": [
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  },
  {
   "code": "consumer_protection",
   "name": "Consumer Protection",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#consumer-protection-consumer-protection",
   "standing_position": "No West Virginia-specific crypto consumer-protection statute has been identified. Crypto exchanges licensed as money transmitters are subject to the general customer-fund safeguarding obligations applicable to all state-licensed money transmitters, though a crypto-specific custody or disclosure rule has not been separately verified.",
   "findings": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "code": "tax_treatment",
   "name": "Tax Treatment",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#tax-treatment-tax-treatment",
   "standing_position": "No West Virginia-specific crypto tax statute has been identified. Federal tax treatment (IRS: crypto as property, subject to capital-gains recognition on disposition, and new broker Form 1099-DA reporting) governs; West Virginia personal income tax generally is understood to reference federal adjusted gross income, but the state's specific conformity mechanism for digital-asset property treatment was not independently verified in this pass.",
   "findings": [
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    {
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    {
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  },
  {
   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
   "name": "Cross-Border Transfer",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#cross-border-transfer-cross-border-transfer",
   "standing_position": "No West Virginia-specific cross-border crypto transfer restriction has been identified. Federal Bank Secrecy Act obligations (FinCEN Funds Travel Rule, sanctions screening) apply to state-licensed money transmitters engaging in cross-border convertible-virtual-currency transmittals.",
   "findings": [
    {
     "finding": null,
     "instrument_type": null,
     "source": null,
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     "retrieved_at": null
    },
    {
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    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "code": "aml_cft_regime",
   "name": "AML/CFT Regime",
   "confidence": null,
   "moved_this_cycle": false,
   "url": "https://cryptoassets.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-west-virginia/#aml-cft-regime-aml-cft-regime",
   "standing_position": "AML/CFT obligations for money-transmitter-licensed crypto businesses in West Virginia flow from the federal Bank Secrecy Act (FinCEN money-services-business registration, CVC guidance, and Funds Travel Rule), which are covered under this consumer's Financial Integrity Module (FIM) subscription rather than duplicated here. Disambiguation context only: West Virginia's own criminal money-laundering statute (House Bill 2585, enacted circa 2019) separately amended the state's money-laundering law to define 'cryptocurrency' as a type of 'monetary instrument' for state anti-money-laundering/criminal-enforcement purposes; this is a state criminal-law fact noted for context and is not restated as an aml_cft_regime claim per the FIM subscription rule.",
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