The Central Bank licenses crypto exchanges, the energy ministry sets the tariff for industrial mining and the finance ministry watches the money. That is how deputy minister Berdimyrat Berdiyev described the division of labour, Turkmenportal reported at 16:02 Ashgabat time. The law on virtual assets has been adopted and the road map approved, he said, without a number or date for either.
His own ministry claims 3 jobs: high-speed links for data centres, mining pools and licensed exchange operators, information security for the critical infrastructure of financial networks against cyberattacks and DDoS, and the integration of national data networks into the international digital space under data-sovereignty standards. For that it is modernising fibre-optic lines, widening backbone capacity and installing new routing equipment, he said, and invited investors to the Turkmentel-2026 exhibition and conference.
The Central Bank licenses crypto exchanges, the energy ministry sets the tariff for industrial mining and the finance ministry watches the money.
“All the necessary conditions are being created so that domestic and international investors engaged in digital finance and fintech can rely on a stable and protected telecommunications environment,” Berdiyev said. Turkmenportal’s closing paragraph puts the forum at 1 to 2 October with more than 750 delegates from 50 states, against the “more than 700” the state portal printed on Thursday.
The same outlet’s headlines from the hall carried the day’s other numbers: the value added of Turkmenistan’s industry up 8.2% in 2025, and the share of non-cash payments above 47%. Thursday’s 5 memoranda and 2 contracts, among them Damen’s two with the water authority and the Balkan shipyard, remain unpriced on every page that lists them, and the portal had published no day-2 post by 18:00 Ashgabat time.
The Ashgabat Times headlined its day-2 report “from virtual assets to international arbitration” and a Turkmen proposal for a new inter-regional transport corridor and an international customs centre. The portal’s own summary of the second day, the text of the virtual-assets law and the road map, and the first licence the Central Bank issues are still to come, and the Avaza week of 7 to 9 October follows the forum.