On September 5, 2025, Alexey Yakovlev, Director of the Financial Policy Department of the Russian Ministry of Finance, publicly stated that he intends to promote the drop in the qualification threshold for "special qualified" investors, with the core goal of expanding the range of entities that can participate in organized Crypto Assets trading.

The retrospective policy started this year in March when the Central Bank of Russia launched a three-year pilot for crypto asset trading, initially open only to "specially qualified" investors to control risks.
According to current standards, eligible individuals must meet one of two major rigid requirements: first, the total amount of securities and deposits held must not be less than 100 million rubles (approximately 1.2316 million US dollars at the current exchange rate), and second, the individual's income in the previous year must not be less than 50 million rubles (approximately 615,800 US dollars).