The District of Columbia has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Virtual-currency exchange, custody and transmission businesses fall under the District's general Money Transmitters Act, administered by the DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) and processed through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). A federal court sitting in the District (United States v. Harmon, D.D.C. 2020) held that bitcoin constitutes 'money' for purposes of DC money-transmission licensing, confirming that virtual-currency exchangers fall within the Act's scope even absent crypto-specific statutory language. No DC-specific carve-outs, exemptions or crypto license tier distinct from the general MTL regime have been identified.
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The District of Columbia has not enacted an independent token-classification framework. Characterization of crypto assets for securities/commodities purposes is governed federally. In March 2026, the SEC and CFTC jointly issued interpretive guidance establishing a token taxonomy (digital commodities, digital collectibles, digital tools, stablecoins, digital securities); this guidance does not have the force of a formal rule and a related formal rulemaking was still pending as of the guidance's release.
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DC has no state-level regime addressing staking, mining, DeFi lending, node operation or validator activity. The only relevant framework touching these activities is the March 2026 federal SEC/CFTC interpretive guidance, which excludes airdrops, protocol staking and protocol mining from the 'digital securities' category the SEC oversees. DeFi lending and node operation remain unaddressed by any settled federal or DC-specific rule; broader treatment is contemplated only in pending federal market-structure legislation (the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) that had not passed the Senate as of early August 2026.
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The federal GENIUS Act (signed July 18, 2025) is the first comprehensive U.S. stablecoin framework, governing issuance authorization, reserves, redemption and disclosure for payment stablecoins nationwide, including in DC. As of the July 18, 2026 statutory one-year rulemaking deadline, the primary federal regulators (OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, NCUA) and Treasury had not finalized implementing regulations, leaving core prudential rules incomplete ahead of the law's January 18, 2027 effective date. The District of Columbia has not established, or been reported to be pursuing, a state-qualified payment-stablecoin issuer regime under the GENIUS Act's 'substantially similar' state-certification pathway; only New York has publicly proposed a GENIUS-aligned state framework as of mid-2026.
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DC-specific crypto consumer protection derives from DISB's general money-transmitter supervisory conditions (solvency, customer-fund handling) rather than any crypto-specific statute. At the federal level, the SEC maintains investor-education and fraud-warning resources (Investor.gov, FinHub) applicable to DC residents, but these are general educational resources rather than binding DC disclosure requirements.
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DC has not enacted crypto-specific tax legislation. Federal IRS guidance treating convertible virtual currency as property governs capital-gain/loss and income characterization, and DC's individual income tax generally builds on federally defined income, so crypto-related gains and income flow into the DC tax base for DC residents. Enforcement history (the DC Attorney General's tax-fraud suit against a prominent bitcoin-holding DC resident) illustrates that DC actively pursues residency-based individual income tax liability tied to crypto-linked wealth. Federal reporting infrastructure is also tightening: brokers began issuing Form 1099-DA (cost basis/proceeds) to the IRS in 2026 covering 2025 crypto sales.
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DC-based crypto money transmitters are subject to the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN cross-border recordkeeping and travel-rule framework applicable nationwide; no DC-specific outbound-restriction or cross-border regime exists independent of the federal scheme.
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Crypto AML/CFT coverage for this consumer is sourced from the fleet's Financial Integrity Module (FIM) subscription (aml_ctf) and is intentionally not duplicated in this baseline. For disambiguation context only: DC-based virtual-currency money transmitters are subject to FinCEN Bank Secrecy Act obligations (registration, AML program, SAR/CTR filing) as administrators/exchangers of convertible virtual currency, consistent with nationwide FinCEN guidance; this is not restated as a scored claim here.
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