Vietnam Prepares Q3 2026 Launch Of First Regulated Crypto And Digital Asset Market

Vietnam’s deputy Finance Minister Nguyen Duc Chi said the country is preparing to launch its first regulated crypto and digital asset market as early as the third quarter of 2026, with officials working with financial regulators and security agencies to create rules for digital asset trading.

Chiannouncedthe timeline during the Digital Trust in Finance 2026 forum on May 12, and said the framework is designed to ensure safety and transparency.

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Vietnam has also approved five companies to help operate crypto trading platforms as it moves to bring the fast-growing market under a formal legal framework, and Reuters reported that five companies passed the first qualification stage for crypto exchange licenses in March.

Under the proposal described in the coverage, individuals would pay a 0.1% tax on every crypto transaction processed through licensed platforms, while Vietnam still bans cryptocurrencies from use as legal payment inside the country and requires settlements and transactions to continue using the Vietnamese dong.

The draft rules described for Vietnam would treat crypto trading much like stock transactions under the country’s tax system, with corporate investors facing separate tax treatment and companies earning profits from crypto transactions able to pay a 20% corporate tax after deducting related costs and expenses.

At the same time, regulators plan to exempt crypto transactions from value-added tax, and the coverage says Vietnam’s broader digital economy strategy targets a digital economy worth at least 30% of GDP by 2030.

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The same reporting ties the regulated-crypto push to other policy goals, including making 80% of transactions cashless and having more than 40% of enterprises engaged in innovation activities over the same period.

Cointelegraph also reported that in March five Vietnamese companies had passed an initial qualification round for the country’s first regulated cryptocurrency exchange, including affiliates of Techcombank, VPBank and LPBank, alongside stockbroker VIX Securities and conglomerate Sun Group.

In Japan, Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the company is still working through the path to list its planned preferred shares, describing the product as a possible addition to Japan’s capital markets if approved.

Gerovich said the preferred shares would become Japan’s first listed perpetual preferred product if approved, and he said the company must prove dividend capacity from Bitcoin income across several market conditions before listing.

Crypto.news reported that Metaplanet’s website lists Bitcoin holdings of 40,177 BTC, making Bitcoin central to its treasury identity, while Gerovich said “the path to listing is necessarily deliberate.”

Separately, Bitget’s market coverage said BTC traders were watching a golden cross setup near the $82K resistance zone, with CryptoQuant analyst CW8900 describing it as a strong trend reversal indicator and noting “A golden cross is about to occur again following the dead cross last August.”