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Everything the Policy Lab publishes, in one place.

Dialogue Notes from weekly sessions. Monthly Regulatory Intelligence Reports. Policy briefs, trackers, country comparisons and supervisory benchmarks. The annual State of Digital Asset Regulation in Africa Report.

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All output types · All markets · 6 entries

Regulatory Trackers · All markets

Digital Asset Policy Tracker

The running record of African digital-asset rulemaking: statutes, guidelines, consultations and supervisory action, tracked jurisdiction by jurisdiction and reviewed through the Legum research programme.

Legum research programme · Continuously updatedOpen on the Legum platform

Policy Briefs · All markets

African Stablecoin Compliance and Policy Lab

Africa-authored research on stablecoin settlement, payment treatment and the compliance obligations that follow, produced through Fellowship work and reviewed for RIX.

Legum research programme · OngoingOpen on the Legum platform

Regulatory Intelligence Reports · All markets

Regulatory bulletin

African digital-asset regulation, tracked and explained, with notification when new research briefs and RIX updates publish. Free at the point of use.

Legum ecosystem · RecurringOpen on the Legum platform

Country Comparisons · All markets

RIX, the regulatory intelligence framework

The structured framework that reviewed research from the Dialogue, the Lab and the bulletin feeds into, so findings across markets can be compared rather than merely collected.

Legum ecosystem · LiveOpen on the Legum platform

Policy Briefs · Nigeria

Nigeria: securities perimeter after the Investments and Securities Act 2025

The Act recognises virtual and digital assets as securities and places operators inside the SEC perimeter. Our Nigeria chapter tracks the subsidiary rulemaking, account frameworks and the move from incubation to full licensing.

Country chapter · MaintainedRead the country chapter

Country Comparisons · South Africa

South Africa: what a licensing record teaches four new regimes

The FSCA declared crypto assets a financial product in October 2022 and has been licensing crypto asset service providers since 2023. It is the only Founding Five market where supervisory practice, not just legislation, can be studied at scale.

Country chapter · MaintainedRead the country chapter

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