Crypto & Digital Assets - Thailand

RegulatedEmergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses B.E. 2561 (2018), as amended by the Royal Decree on Digital Asset Business Operation (No. 2) B.E. 2568 (2025); licenses granted by the Ministry of Finance on recommendation of the SEC, which supervises and enforces.

Thailand operates a fully in-force licensing regime for virtual-asset service providers under the 2018 Emergency Decree, supervised by the SEC with final license approval by the Ministry of Finance. Operators are licensed across three categories—digital asset exchange, broker, and dealer—each with distinct capital, custody, AML, and market-integrity obligations. A 2025 amendment extended the law extraterritorially so that offshore platforms actively targeting Thai residents must establish a Thai entity and obtain a local license.

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