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Officials said the bank may start allocating funds to crypto-related equities and ETFs as early as April.
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Kazakhstan News
The Republic of Kazakhstan is a central Asian country with a population of around 18 million people and an area of 2.7 million square kilometers, making it the ninth largest country in the world. Kazakhstan is a dominant economy of central Asia, with the largest GDP and strong rates of growth due to great reserves of oil, minerals and metals. Kazakhstan is also performing well in car manufacturing and agriculture. Kazakhstan is a blockchain-welcoming country. Kazakh authorities were one of the first to announce plans of blockchain adoption in such fields as taxation, customs and cargo tracking. However, the central bank of Kazakhstan is skeptical toward Bitcoin. Even though there are a lot of possible benefits for selling Kazakhstan’s electricity to Bitcoin miners, the central bank of Kazakhstan sees Bitcoin as a money-laundering tool and a way of avoiding tax, so it is currently intending to prohibit the purchase, sell and mining of crypto.
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The platform enables enterprises to use programmable stablecoins for payments and treasury while outsourcing custody, compliance and settlement.
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Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed new laws creating licensed crypto exchanges and giving the central bank authority to approve tradable coins.
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In Almaty, central bankers and fintech builders leaned into regulation, pilots and scale.
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Turkmenistan has started the year with a bang, with new laws legalizing the operation of crypto exchanges and crypto miners kicking in on Thursday.
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The government is reportedly considering converting part of its sovereign wealth and gold holdings into digital assets, signaling the rise of crypto as a state-level asset class.
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A sovereign crypto fund surprised markets by making its first investment in BNB, rather than Bitcoin. This is a big, bold move in Kazakhstan’s strategy.
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Despite Kazakhstan’s public pro-crypto stance, the volume of crypto platforms engaged in illicit financial schemes and closed down increased in 2025.
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Kazakhstan is advancing a dual model by piloting its digital tenge CBDC alongside the Evo stablecoin as part of its push to become a crypto hub.
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Kazakhstan launched the Alem Crypto Fund, a state-backed vehicle for long-term digital asset reserves, debuting with a BNB purchase in partnership with Binance Kazakhstan.
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The new Solana-based Evo stablecoin pegged to Kazakhstan’s national currency, the tenge, aims to bridge the crypto market with traditional finance.
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The president announced his “CryptoCity” plans would be developed in Alatau, while the government would move forward to create a strategic crypto reserve with “promising assets.”
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Crypto exchange Bybit has become the first crypto exchange to debut stablecoin payments for regulatory fees in Kazakhstan’s AIFC.
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The growing role of platforms like BitGo in spot Bitcoin products worldwide is a double-edged sword, according to market observers.
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Kazakhstan’s central bank is drawing on lessons from Norway, the US and Middle East in developing its crypto strategy.
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