Vietnam to Launch First Regulated Domestic Cryptocurrency Exchange

BlockBeats News, April 26th, the Vietnamese government plans to launch a 5-year cryptocurrency pilot project in the second quarter of 2026, aiming to transition the previously offshore-dominated unregulated cryptocurrency trading into a domestically regulated market. Currently, Vietnamese traders have an annual cryptocurrency trading volume of $220-230 billion, with a daily volume exceeding $600 million. The new pilot project will only allow locally registered institutions that meet strict capital and compliance requirements to participate, and the traded assets must be real-world asset-backed and settled in Vietnamese Dong.