Best Regulatory Framework of the Year is a category within the BeInCrypto Institutional 100, an annual research-driven program recognising institutional digital asset excellence across 26 categories and six pillars.
This category sits under Pillar 5: Regulation & Governance. The 10 frameworks below are listed alphabetically by framework name and are not ranked. A shortlist will be named in May 2026, with the winner announced at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2–3, 2026.
| Regulatory Framework | Lead Authority | What It Achieves |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil BCB Crypto Framework | Banco Central do Brasil
With CVM for securities tokens |
Creates Brazil’s first comprehensive crypto framework.
Requires VASP authorisation and brings stablecoin transfers into the foreign-exchange regime. |
| CLARITY Act | US Congress
Joint SEC and CFTC framework |
Would establish a federal US crypto market-structure law.
Clarifies SEC/CFTC jurisdiction and creates registration routes for crypto exchanges, brokers, and dealers. |
| Dubai VARA Full Market Regulations | Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
Dubai, excluding DIFC |
Establishes Dubai’s standalone virtual asset regime.
Covers VASP licensing, token issuance pathways, and enforcement for exchange, custody, broker-dealer, lending, and payments activity. |
| EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) | ESMA and EBA
With EU national regulators |
Harmonises crypto regulation across EU member states.
Creates CASP passporting, stablecoin reserve rules, market abuse controls, Travel Rule integration, and operational resilience requirements. |
| GENIUS Act | OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
With state regulators for smaller issuers |
Creates the first US federal stablecoin framework.
Requires high-quality liquid reserves, monthly disclosures, AML controls, and federal or state issuer pathways. |
| Hong Kong Stablecoins Ordinance | Hong Kong Monetary Authority | Establishes Hong Kong’s fiat-referenced stablecoin licensing regime.
Requires 100% backing, strict reserve assets, paid-up capital, and one-business-day redemption at par. |
| Japan Payment Services Act Amendment 2025 | Financial Services Agency of Japan | Strengthens Japan’s regulated stablecoin framework.
Limits issuance to banks, trust companies, and fund transfer providers, with reserve and redemption obligations. |
| Singapore MAS DTSP + Stablecoin Framework | Monetary Authority of Singapore | Combines digital payment token licensing, offshore DTSP oversight, and single-currency stablecoin rules.
Sets high compliance standards for Singapore-incorporated firms serving global users. |
| South Korea Virtual Asset User Protection Act (VAUPA) | Financial Services Commission and Financial Supervisory Service
With KoFIU |
Creates a consumer-protection regime for South Korea’s crypto market.
Requires cold storage, cybersecurity insurance or reserves, unfair-trading monitoring, and reporting to regulators. |
| UAE Federal Capital Markets VASP Framework | Capital Market Authority
UAE federal onshore perimeter, excluding DIFC and ADGM |
Replaces the prior federal VASP regime with a capital markets rulebook.
Covers licensed virtual asset activities, higher governance standards, and recovery rules for systemically important VASPs. |
The BeInCrypto Institutional 100 — Best Regulatory Framework of the Year (2026 Long List) identifies jurisdiction-level regimes that materially shaped how regulated institutions issue, trade, custody, and intermediate digital assets during 2025 and 2026.
Coverage spans comprehensive crypto-asset frameworks, federal stablecoin legislation, market-structure laws, federal and emirate-level VASP architectures, and consumer-protection regimes with active enforcement.
The category does not evaluate single guidance documents, industry self-regulation, global soft-law standards, CBDC-only frameworks, or unilateral agency interpretations. These may influence regulation, but they do not qualify as standalone jurisdiction-level frameworks for this category.
This category is evaluated under Track C of the BeInCrypto Institutional 100 methodology: 20% based on quantitative metrics and 80% based on Expert Council scoring.
Assessment spans eight criteria: legislative substance, scope of activities covered, operational readiness, enforcement track record, market coverage, institutional adoption, international influence, and novelty of regulatory architecture.
Data was verified using primary regulator publications, official gazettes, parliamentary records, legal-advisory firm analyses, CASP and VASP licence registers, regulator enforcement notices, prosecution announcements, blockchain analytics for market context, and mainstream financial press.
Negative-signal scans were applied for framework pauses, regulatory rollbacks, agency continuity issues, and conflicts with adjacent regimes.
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