#VietnamCryptoPolicy 🇻🇳 Vietnam Legalizes Crypto! (June 14, 2025)

📜 The National Assembly just passed the Law on the Digital Technology Industry—officially legalizing crypto starting Jan 1, 2026!

🔐 Asset Breakdown:

• 🪙 Virtual Assets = exchange/investment use

• 💾 Crypto Assets = encrypted ownership/validation tools

❌ Excludes fiat-tokens, securities & traditional finance instruments.

🛡️ Regulatory Focus:

• 🔐 Cybersecurity

• 💸 Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorist Financing (FATF standards)

📉 Aims to lift 🇻🇳 off the FATF gray list (on since 2023).

📚 Background:

🧱 Years of groundwork (since 2017)

📝 PM pushed hard in 2025 for MOF & SBV to finalize it

🗺️ Part of the National Blockchain Strategy 2024–2030: sandboxes, public-sector tools & ASEAN leadership.

📈 Adoption & Goals:

🌍 Top 5 in global crypto use

💸 Real use cases: remittance, inclusion, rewards, speculation

🏦 Goal: User protection + tax revenue + attract institutions

🚀 Why It’s Big:

• Ends legal ambiguity

• Moves Vietnam closer to 🌐 global standards

• Pushes 🇻🇳 toward being a regional crypto powerhouse!