Russia Legalizes Regulated Retail Crypto Trading With New Bill
The bill opens a tightly capped market for everyday Russians while keeping domestic crypto payments banned and carving out foreign-trade settlement as the real strategic win for Moscow.
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The bill opens a tightly capped market for everyday Russians while keeping domestic crypto payments banned and carving out foreign-trade settlement as the real strategic win for Moscow.
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If the bill clears, it ends a decade of SEC-CFTC turf wars over which agency polices digital assets, handing issuers, exchanges, and custody banks a single federal rulebook.
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The framework is small for ordinary Russians but opens a regulated channel for digital assets in cross-border trade, just as the EU tightens sanctions on Moscow's crypto activity.
JPMorgan's CEO just put a verbal bid under risk-off positioning, the kind of headline that drags every sell-side note out for a fresh look at equity exposure.
The bill moves crypto from a grey zone into a defined legal category, letting banks, exchanges, and miners operate under explicit rules rather than enforcement-by-edict.
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If signed by Putin, the framework brings crypto into Russia's formal legal perimeter from September 1, formalising mining, taxation, and cross-border use after years of ad-hoc policy.
The deal removes the last named obstacle to a floor vote on the market-structure bill that's been parked in the Senate since the House passed it earlier this year.
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