Ireland has put crypto-assets squarely in the frame of its latest crackdown on financial crime.

The government launched a new National Risk Assessment on money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing Thursday, alongside a 30-point action plan to strengthen the State’s response. The assessment names the misuse of crypto-assets as one of a range of evolving threats, citing increasingly sophisticated fraud, emerging technologies, and vulnerabilities in global financial networks.

Among the plan’s headline measures, according to the Department of Finance, are “enhanced safeguards around crypto-assets and digital finance.”

The most specific crypto provision tasks the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland…