North Carolina has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Virtual-currency exchangers and administrators are regulated under the state's general Money Transmitters Act (MTA), which was amended in 2016 (House Bill 289 / Senate Bill 680) to explicitly bring bitcoin and other virtual currencies within the definition of money transmission. Licensing is administered by the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks via the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), with codified exemptions for miners and non-custodial/non-financial blockchain software providers.
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North Carolina has no state-level statute classifying crypto-assets as securities, e-money tokens, asset-referenced tokens, or utility tokens. The MTA's definition of 'virtual currency' is scoped only to determine what counts as money transmission (tied to the state's stored-value definition), not to characterize tokens for securities or commodities purposes. Per the disambiguation applicable to this JID, securities/commodities characterization of tokens is governed by federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, which itself remains unsettled and subject to ongoing federal market-structure legislation.
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North Carolina addresses on-chain activity only indirectly, through NCCOB licensing-exemption guidance covering mining and non-custodial wallet/multi-signature software. No NC statute or guidance was found addressing staking-as-a-service, DeFi lending, DEX operation, validator services, or tokenization specifically.
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North Carolina has no state-level stablecoin issuance, reserve, redemption, disclosure, or systemic-designation regime. Stablecoin policy relevant to NC currently plays out at the federal level, where North Carolina's own U.S. Senator (Thom Tillis, a Senate Banking Committee member) has been a central negotiator on unresolved stablecoin-yield provisions in pending federal market-structure legislation.
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North Carolina's principal crypto-relevant consumer protection is embedded in the Money Transmitters Act's surety-bond regime, which scales bond amounts to annual transmission volume to secure customer funds. No crypto-specific marketing-restriction, risk-disclosure, complaint-handling, or suitability rules were identified.
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No North Carolina Department of Revenue guidance specific to crypto-asset income or capital-gains treatment was located in this research pass; NC income tax generally conforms to federal adjusted gross income, implying pass-through of federal property-based crypto tax treatment, but this was not independently confirmed via a primary NC source. Separately, North Carolina's 2026 budget legislation (S.B. 257) creates a crypto-adjacent tax nexus by taxing prediction-market platforms (e.g., Kalshi, Polymarket) at 6% of net trading-fee revenue attributable to NC residents, while recognizing CFTC registration as the basis for lawful operation in the state.
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North Carolina imposes no independent state-specific cross-border transfer restriction on virtual currency; cross-border obligations applicable to NC-licensed virtual currency money transmitters flow from the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN framework, including BSA recordkeeping, Currency Transaction Report and Suspicious Activity Report thresholds, sanctions screening, and the Funds Travel Rule.
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