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United Kingdom is clarifying its property status with a new law that ensures cryptocurrencies and stable coins have legal security like traditional assets. This regulation officially recognizes that digital asset owners can possess, inherit, and reclaim these assets.

Highlights: Cryptocurrency assets are now classified as private property, protection increases in inheritance processes and threatened situations, and this step supports the UK’s efforts to become a digital finance hub.

In this context, the “Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill” has become law with the approval of King Charles, and cryptocurrencies are now included under property laws independently of informal precedents concerning ownership and protection. The government sees this change as an important step in incorporating digital assets into traditional property law to eliminate previous uncertainties.

Industry response: Large progress has been described. Bitcoin Policy UK described this move as a “big step forward” for crypto assets, and CryptoUK noted that Parliament has now formalized judicial precedents previously applied by courts into law. In the earlier process, digital tokens did not fully conform to the two main categories, often seen as valuables; items delivered physically and factual rights. Crypto assets that fell on the border between these categories have now been clarified within the concept of personal property with the new law. The law explicitly states that “something of a digital or electronic nature” can also be regarded as personal property.

CryptoUK states that this approach will facilitate proof of ownership and asset recovery processes in cases of theft, inheritance operations, or company collapses related to digital assets. Additionally, the government views this framework as part of its goal to make the UK a center of digital finance.

Statistics show that the proportion of adult Britons owning cryptocurrencies has increased in recent years: current data indicates that about 12% of the population holds at least one digital asset.