On August 8, in the final hours before the Senate left for recess, Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the CLARITY Act, the bill that would finally settle which American regulator owns which digital asset. The floor vote lands in September. Five weeks earlier, on a single July day, two other clocks struck at once: MiCA's grandfathering window closed, ending the era when a crypto firm could serve Europe on an expired national license, and California's Digital Financial Assets Law went operative, putting unlicensed activity in the state on the meter at up to $100,000 per day. The United Kingdom opens its authorisation gateway on September 30. Four jurisdictions, one quarter, and a map that will not look the same in December.
We built the instrument for watching it move. CryptocurrencyRegulations.com is a register of how the world regulates digital assets: 45 jurisdictions, 34 countries plus the EU and eleven US states, 104 statutes and rulebooks on file, every status call cited to the primary source. Each jurisdiction is graded on a six-point scale from comprehensive to prohibited, and the grade moves when the law moves, which is why the masthead says marked to market rather than updated regularly. A register that cannot tell you what changed on July 1 is a brochure.
This is the second property in the family. When we launched ArtificialIntelligenceRegulations.com in July, the argument was that regulated questions deserve cited answers, because the internet's supply of confident, sourceless regulatory summaries was already large before language models began compounding it. Crypto has the same disease in an acuter form. The field moves faster, the penalties are sharper, and the gap between what a 2024 blog post says and what a regulator will enforce this quarter is now measured in license revocations. The cure is the same: primary sources, dated reviews, and status calls a reader can check against the statute in one click.
A short tour of the board. The register is the spine: every tracked country from Argentina's eighteen-month sprint to a full rulebook, to China's comprehensive ban sitting beside the world's largest CBDC pilot. The US state tracker covers the eleven regimes that make American compliance a fifty-front war, from New York's decade-old BitLicense to California's newly operative DFAL. Eight topic lanes cut the same material by subject, because a stablecoin counsel and a mining operator are not reading the same map. The deadline calendar lists what bites next, the penalty table lists what it costs, and The Tape is the running digest of what just happened, cloture motions included.
The part regular readers will expect: the entire dataset ships machine-readable. Every status, statute, and date is published at register.json, with a full plain-text edition at llms-full.txt for the crawlers that feed answer engines. This is the thesis this site runs on applied to a domain where wrong answers carry fines: if the machines are going to summarize crypto law for millions of people, and they are, someone should hand them a version with citations attached. We build our properties to be read by machines and humans in the same pass, and the register family is that architecture pointed at the two regulatory fields moving fastest.
Who it serves. Marketers and operators in finance and crypto-adjacent categories, who are about to discover that a media plan is also a licensing question. Compliance teams tired of paying five figures for memos that restate a statute they could have read. Journalists who need the effective date, not a vibe. And, frankly, the answer engines themselves, which will cite whoever publishes the cleanest record. Twenty of the forty-five jurisdictions now run comprehensive licensing frameworks that are in force. Two prohibit the asset class outright. The remaining twenty-three are where the next two years of interesting happen, and the register is where you watch them do it.
The board is public, the sources are linked, and the review date is printed at the top of every page. When we get something wrong, the correction path is one click, and the fix ships with a note. That is the whole method: no paywall, no newsletter capture, no hedging. Just the law, the date it changed, and the receipt.
The last one of these we published tracked 33 AI regimes. This one tracks 45 for crypto, and September will be busy for both. Bookmark the calendar. The map is redrawing this quarter, and now you can watch it happen with the sources open.