On June 12, 2025, the Prime Minister signed and issued Decision No. 1131/QD-TTg, approving the National List of strategic technology and strategic technology products. Blockchain - a block chain technology - is one of 11 strategic technology groups with 3 product groups: digital assets, digital currencies, cryptocurrency; Blockchain network infrastructure; traceability system.
This is the first time that the concept of digital assets and cryptographic assets has detailed regulations on the rights and obligations of related parties; business conditions...
At the same time, on June 14, 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law on Digital Technology Industry, recognizing "digital assets" and "criptographic assets" as a form of asset; effective from January 1, 2026.
This Law defines digital assets as assets under the Civil Code, expressed in the form of digital data, using technology to create, store, and transfer. However, virtual currency/criptos have not been recognized as a means of payment, only used for "exchange or investment".
On June 27, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed a Resolution on the International Financial Center, located in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang.
Previously, the Ministry of Planning and Investment proposed to pilot transactions of cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency assets in financial centers, implemented from July 1, 2026.
At the Government meeting on law-making in March 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed the completion of the legal framework for management and handling of virtual assets, virtual currencies, cryptocurrency, and cryptocurrency.
This is a practical issue and urgently needs to be implemented soon. This process needs to be conducted closely, cautiously but not at all, both doing, drawing experience and completing, thereby promoting economic growth, in line with the general trend of the world and the practical conditions of Vietnam.
In the context of cryptocurrency asset transactions being of interest in Vietnam, domestic management agencies are actively grasping the global trend in managing and promoting the digital asset industry.
On the morning of July 15, in Ho Chi Minh City, Lao Dong Newspaper organized a National Strategy Forum on Digital Assets: Policy for innovation and global integration.
The seminar aims to create conditions for domestic and foreign management agencies and enterprises to exchange and discuss directions for digital assets to be strictly legalized while still ensuring the promotion of innovation and global integration.
From there, make recommendations, draw lessons from successful models in the world so that Vietnam can refer to them before announcing documents and bills in the future.
The seminar will also be a place to connect the public-private sector and businesses operating in the field of digital assets of Vietnam and the world.
The seminar was attended by Mr. Nguyen Manh Cuong - Former Deputy Chief of Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology - Deputy Secretary General of the Vietnam Automation Association; Ms. Dang Thi Luan - Acting Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Creative Startup Center (SIHUB - a unit under the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City); Associate Professor, Dr. Binh Nguyen - RMIT University; Mr. Richard Teng - CEO of Binance; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung - CEO of Sky Mavis; Mr. Tran Huy Vu - CEO of Kyber Network; Mr. Johan Will Nyvene - Chairman of the Board of Directors of HSC Company; Mr. Johan Will Ross - CEO of Dragon Capital Vietnam; Mr. Trinh Bao Quoc - Member of the Board of Directors of ACB Bank; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Giang - Director of FPT Garden Group...
