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The State of Crypto tracker
A running account of what each US state has actually done about digital assets: the bills that passed, the ones that died, the licenses on offer, the reserves proposed, and what changed for anyone holding or moving crypto in that state.
What this is, and what it is not
The National Conference of State Legislatures already publishes the authoritative list of introduced and enacted state digital-asset bills, and where you want a complete legislative index, that is the place to go. This is a different document. It carries only the states this publication has actually reported on, and for each one it says what the law does in practice, what it cost or saved, and who it binds. Every entry is a dispatch you can read in full, with the statute cited inside it. Where we have not reported a state, it is absent rather than summarized from a bill number.
Every state we have covered
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Illinois Crypto Tax Becomes First in Nation as Chicago Leads Regulated Trading
The Illinois crypto tax is a national first. On June 16, 2026, Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Digital Asset Tax Act, a 0.2% levy on digital-asset…
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Idaho Crypto Mining Stalls While Data Centers Strain the Grid in 2026
Idaho crypto mining never got the welcome its neighbors rolled out. While Wyoming, Montana, and Oklahoma passed laws protecting the right to mine and self-custody Bitcoin,…
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Georgia’s Transaction Alley Meets Stablecoins as Fiserv Launches FIUSD Rails
US merchants paid a record $198 billion in card fees last year, adding about $1,200 annually to the average family’s bills. Fiserv now holds both the…
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Florida Bitcoin Reserve Bill Returns for 2026 as an Inflation Hedge
Venezuela’s inflation hit about 172 percent in 2025 and Argentina’s reached 124 percent in 2023. Miami’s Venezuelan and Argentine communities lean on stablecoins to protect savings…
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Delaware Crypto Firms Exit as Tokenized Shares Boom Offshore in 2026
Delaware wrote the law allowing blockchain shares in 2017, eight years before the market existed. Almost none of the $1.8 billion in tokenized stock uses it;…
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Connecticut Crypto Law Bans a State Bitcoin Reserve as Texas Builds One
Hartford insurers already tap a catastrophe-bond market worth $63.9 billion by early 2026. In April, Schroders Capital and Hannover Re closed the first live reinsurance deal…
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State-of-Crypto: Colorado Crypto Tax Program Draws 48 Payments in 2024 Despite First-Mover Status
The 48 payments totaled just $17,544, run through PayPal’s crypto hub for a fee. In Denver, burglary made up 96 percent of cannabis-industry crime in 2022,…
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State-of-Crypto: California Crypto Law Takes Effect July 2026 With $100,000 Daily Fines
California’s Office of Administrative Law disapproved the DFPI’s draft rules in May, even as regulators fined crypto lender Nexo $500,000 for loans to more than 5,400…
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State-of-Crypto: Arkansas Crypto Mining Law Reversed in 2024 After 51 Counties Push Back
Walmart’s blockchain food-traceability system, built with IBM in Bentonville, traced a package of mangoes to its source farm in 2.2 seconds, a job that once took…
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State-of-Crypto: Arizona Bitcoin Reserve Returns in 2026 After Hobbs Vetoed Three Bills
A blockchain pilot called Water Trace has placed smart meters on 5,000 farms across Arizona, California and Nevada to trade surplus Colorado River water quotas across…
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State-of-Crypto: Alaska’s Begich Drives Federal Bitcoin Reserve Bill to Buy 1 Million BTC
Federal data puts the unbanked rate for Alaska Native households at 16.3 percent, the highest of any group measured, and Bethel has only three financial institutions…
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State-of-Crypto: Alabama DAO Law Takes Effect October 2026
The law’s property provisions could help untangle heirs’ property, land passed down without a will, which the Atlanta Fed estimates covers 1.6 million acres worth $6.6…
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State-of-Crypto: Hawaiʻi Crypto Regulation Pivots to Kiosk Fraud, Two Years After Dropping Licenses
The same bill leaves untouched a larger opportunity: cheaper remittances. Stablecoins can cut the World Bank’s 6.36 percent average transfer cost by more than 90 percent…
Federal and cross-state policy coverage
The policy desk-
Indiana Crypto Law First to Require Retirement Options, Then Bans ATMs
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Which States Have a Bitcoin Reserve, and What Each Law Actually Says
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State-of-Crypto: Idaho Regulates Crypto Without a Digital Asset Law
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Georgia’s Transaction Alley Meets Stablecoins as Fiserv Launches FIUSD Rails
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Florida Bitcoin Reserve Bill Returns for 2026 as an Inflation Hedge
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Delaware Crypto Firms Exit as Tokenized Shares Boom Offshore in 2026