HB0308

Creates the Cryptographic Frontiers Act requiring the attorney general to investigate federal overreach involving blockchain and cryptocurrency actions affecting Wyoming residents and authorizing legal intervention.

• Establishes the Cryptographic Frontiers Act as the title for this legislation. (W.S. 40-32-101)
• Defines key cryptographic and blockchain-related terms including 0x addresses, ascription, blockchain, blockchain transactions, content identifiers (CID), cryptocurrency, cryptographic signing, private keys, and tokens. (W.S. 40-32-102(a))
• Requires the attorney general to investigate claims by Wyoming residents or businesses of unlawful financial service disruptions by the federal government, including debanking, interference with depository institution bank account access, and restrictions on stablecoin usage. (W.S. 40-32-103(a)(i))
• Requires the attorney general to investigate claims of unlawful federal restrictions on free expression through cryptocurrency transactions, testnet activities, cryptographic signing, smart contract deployment, CID creation, on-chain governance, tokenized voting, and decentralized governance mechanisms. (W.S. 40-32-103(a)(ii))
• Requires the attorney general to investigate claims of unreasonable federal searches or seizures of private keys, digital assets, cryptographically signed data, blockchain transactions, and related cryptographic information. (W.S. 40-32-103(a)(iii))
• Requires the attorney general to investigate claims of unlawful federal compulsion to disclose private keys, seed phrases, cryptographic secrets, transaction histories, wallet contents, and digital asset information. (W.S. 40-32-103(a)(iv))
• Requires the attorney general to investigate claims of unlawful federal overreach burdening intrastate cryptocurrency transactions, digital identity implementations, smart contract deployments, token governance systems, and state-level digital asset regulations. (W.S. 40-32-103(a)(v))
• Authorizes the attorney general to initiate, intervene in, or file amicus curiae briefs in lawsuits in Wyoming or other jurisdictions on behalf of Wyoming residents or businesses alleging unlawful federal infringement of the rights described in the act, subject to gubernatorial approval.