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Sberbank forecasts $46 billion in Russian crypto exchange volume in the first year under new rules

8/31/2026

Russia's new crypto regulations are set to take effect September 1, 2026, and the country's largest bank has put a number on the first year of the regime.

Sberbank projects domestic crypto exchanges could see $46 billion in trading volume during the framework's opening year, according to a report.

That is the scale of the opportunity the bank sees once the new rules go live. Sberbank's position as Russia's largest bank shapes how that projection reads.

Visibility into domestic capital flows gives the institution a different basis for the estimate than a smaller lender or outside observer would have.