The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 8 : Banking and Insurance
Chapter 079 : Money Services
Subchapter 010 : VIRTUAL CURRENCY
(Cite as: 8 V.S.A. § 2571)-
§ 2571. Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Blockchain” has the same meaning as in 12 V.S.A. § 1913(a)(1).
(2) “Blockchain analytics” means a software service that uses data from various virtual currencies and their applicable blockchains to provide a risk rating specific to digital wallet addresses from users of virtual-currency kiosks.
(3) “Digital wallet” means hardware or software that enables individuals to store and use virtual currency.
(4) “Digital wallet address” means an alphanumeric identifier representing a destination on a blockchain for a virtual currency transfer that is associated with a digital wallet.
(5) “Exchange,” used as a verb, means to assume or exercise control of virtual currency from or on behalf of a person, including momentarily, to buy, sell, trade, or convert:
(A) virtual currency for money, monetary value, bank credit, or one or more forms of virtual currency, or other consideration; or
(B) money, monetary value, bank credit, or other consideration for one or more forms of virtual currency.
(6) “Existing customer” means a consumer who:
(A) is engaging in a transaction at a virtual-currency kiosk in Vermont; and
(B) whose first transaction with the virtual-currency kiosk operator occurred more than 30 days prior.
(7) “New customer” means a consumer who:
(A) is engaging in a transaction at a virtual-currency kiosk in Vermont; and
(B) whose first transaction with the virtual-currency kiosk operator occurred not more than 30 days prior.
(8) “Transfer” means to assume or exercise control of virtual currency from or on behalf of a person and to:
(A) credit the virtual currency to the account or digital wallet of another person;
(B) move the virtual currency from one account or digital wallet of a person to another account or digital wallet of the same person; or
(C) relinquish or transfer control or ownership of virtual currency to another person, digital wallet, distributed ledger address, or smart contract. (Added 2023, No. 110 (Adj. Sess.), § 48, eff. July 1, 2024; amended 2025, No. 23, § 22, eff. July 1, 2025.)
