Crypto & Digital Assets - Bahamas

RegulatedDigital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act, 2024 (DARE Act 2024), administered by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (SCB)

The Bahamas regulates crypto exchanges and virtual-asset service providers under the DARE Act 2024, which came into force on 29 July 2024 and replaced the 2020 DARE Act. Any entity operating as a digital asset business 'in or from within' The Bahamas must register with and be licensed by the SCB across activity-specific classes, and the regime now covers exchanges, custody, staking, advisory, derivatives and stablecoins. The 2024 overhaul—enacted partly in response to the FTX collapse—added capital, client-asset segregation, stablecoin-reserve and market-conduct requirements.

Machine-assisted translation · verified 5/23/2026 · orientation, not legal advice. English version →