How crypto laws changed in 2025 — and how they’ll change in 2026
Crypto legislation is now in place across major economies, and coming soon in the US, but tax and privacy questions remain unresolved.
Digital asset regulation finally shifted into gear in 2025 as the US moved toward a more crypto-friendly legal framework and the EU began fully enforcing the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework across Europe.
But crypto lawyers enter 2026 facing unresolved questions around prediction markets and super apps, tax, privacy and digital market structure.
To understand how crypto law evolved in 2025 and preview what lies ahead, Magazine spoke with legal experts Catherine Smirnova and Yuriy Brisov of Digital & Analogue Partners in Europe, Joshua Chu of the Hong Kong Web3 Association and Charlyn Ho of Rikka in the US.
