Ohio has no bespoke crypto-asset licensing statute. Virtual-currency exchange and custody businesses fall under Ohio's general money-transmitter licensing regime, administered via the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), with the state banking/financial-institutions regulator as licensing authority. No independently verified Ohio Revised Code citation or crypto-specific carve-out/exemption within the money-transmitter statute could be confirmed from available sources; this is flagged for primary-source escalation per the injected seed's caution flag.
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Ohio has not enacted a state-specific token taxonomy. Token characterisation for securities purposes is governed by federal SEC/CFTC jurisdiction. In March 2026 the SEC issued an interpretive release applying the Howey test to establish a crypto-asset taxonomy (digital securities, payment stablecoins, digital commodities, digital collectibles, digital tools), and in March 2025 SEC staff clarified that proof-of-work mining does not itself trigger federal securities registration. These federal determinations apply to Ohio market participants by preemption; no Ohio Division of Securities crypto-specific guidance was identified.
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Ohio has no in-force statutory framework specific to staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, node operation, or validator activity. The pending Ohio Blockchain Basics Act (HB 116), passed by the Ohio House in June 2025, would provide protections for crypto mining businesses against discriminatory local government action, but the bill remains before the Ohio Senate and is not yet law. Federally, SEC staff have clarified that proof-of-work mining does not trigger securities registration.
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Ohio has no state-specific stablecoin issuance, reserve, or redemption statute. The field is governed by the federal GENIUS Act, signed into law July 18, 2025, which establishes reserve-backing, redemption-at-par, and disclosure requirements for payment stablecoins nationally, including for Ohio-based issuers and consumers. As of mid-2026, federal regulators (OCC, FDIC, NCUA, Treasury, Federal Reserve) had missed the Act's one-year rulemaking deadline, leaving final implementing rules on reserves, custody, and AML/sanctions compliance still in proposal form, with a statutory effective date no later than January 18, 2027.
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Ohio has no bespoke crypto consumer-protection statute covering marketing restrictions, custody segregation, or suitability specific to digital assets; general Ohio consumer-fraud and securities anti-fraud enforcement apply by default. National FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) data show crypto-related fraud losses reaching $11 billion in 2025 (a 22% year-on-year increase) with over 181,000 complaints, and Ohio has seen enforcement activity against crypto investment fraud, illustrating reliance on general fraud statutes rather than a dedicated crypto consumer-protection framework.
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Ohio has no currently enacted crypto-specific tax statute. Ohio previously permitted businesses to remit state taxes in bitcoin via the OhioCrypto.com program launched in late 2018, but the program was discontinued after a newly elected State Treasurer halted it. The pending Ohio Blockchain Basics Act (HB 116), passed by the Ohio House in June 2025, would exempt crypto transactions under $200 from state capital-gains tax and bar local governments from imposing additional taxes on crypto payments, but remains before the Ohio Senate and is not yet law.
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Ohio has no distinct state-level cross-border crypto-transfer regime. Cross-border transfers conducted by Ohio-based money transmitters and virtual-currency businesses are governed by the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN framework, including the Funds Travel Rule for convertible-virtual-currency transmittals and OFAC sanctions screening, applied uniformly regardless of state.
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Crypto AML/CFT obligations applicable to Ohio-based virtual-currency businesses (customer due diligence, travel rule, SAR/STR filing, sanctions screening, recordkeeping, risk assessment) arise under the federal Bank Secrecy Act / FinCEN money-services-business regime. Per fleet module-subscription doctrine, crypto subscribes to the Financial Integrity Module (FIM) for aml_ctf content; this baseline therefore does not duplicate aml_cft_regime claims and defers to the FIM feed for substantive AML/CFT findings.
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