Dubai courts EU crypto founders as MiCA deadline approaches
European crypto founders are voting with their feet ahead of MiCA's July 1 cut-off: Dubai's VARA is fielding 120+ inquiries a week, and Binance has already pulled its Greek application.
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European crypto founders are voting with their feet ahead of MiCA's July 1 cut-off: Dubai's VARA is fielding 120+ inquiries a week, and Binance has already pulled its Greek application.
Wall Street's biggest US bank just endorsed digital-asset legislation while Michael Saylor's treasury arm rolled out a credit plan to manage its $55B Bitcoin stack, even as BTC slipped below $60K.
A public ultimatum from the president is political theater, not policy, but it lands with operators already running on thin margins and into an election-year inflation fight.
The UK's final regime lands lighter than the 2023 draft on the regulated-activity perimeter but harder on issuer capital, with a stablecoin issuance cap and a designated supervisor handed to the FCA.
The Oct. 25, 2027 regime is the first time UK crypto venues, custodians and stablecoin issuers operate under a single prudential and conduct rulebook, putting Britain alongside the EU's MiCA on…
The investment bank still expects a July 13 Senate markup, but ethics, law enforcement, and banking-industry friction mean the crypto market-structure bill faces real odds of slipping past the…
The call from the largest US bank by assets is a structural endorsement of tokenized rails as infrastructure, not as a crypto trade, and reframes the policy debate around who builds the next…
The largest US bank by assets is now treating tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain settlement as core infrastructure, not a side experiment, with implications across custody, payments, and capital…
Two senior bank leaders told Washington the US needs a market-structure framework, arguing that any stablecoin allowed to pay holders yield effectively rebuilds the deposit base outside the…
The endorsement from the largest US bank by assets narrows the political path for a digital-asset framework, while CEO Jamie Dimon's vow to fight yield provisions down to the wire keeps the fight…
A federal rulebook makes tokens legal in all fifty states; it does nothing to stop a cash-strapped state from layering its own transaction tax on top, and Illinois just put a $60M-a-year price tag on…
Binance's founder frames the withdrawn Greek MiCA application as regulator-ready and blocked by unnamed political forces, while speculating, without evidence, that ECB chief Lagarde may have been…
The transfer is small in market terms, but the signal is large: a sovereign nation converting seized stablecoins into a managed reserve is the kind of precedent other capitals will be asked to…
The exchange's EU passport bid died days before it could be tested, leaving Binance serving the bloc through a patchwork of national registrations rather than the unified MiCA license it had targeted.
A Monday sit-down with sheriffs and other law enforcement groups is the clearest signal yet that the administration wants the crypto market structure bill across the Senate floor before the August…
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
The ruling preserves the central bank's statutory independence and freezes a constitutional fight that could have redrawn how the White House pressures the Fed over rates.
Kyiv just executed its first-ever seizure-to-state handoff of crypto, and the route the funds took into ARMA mirrors how Washington funds its own strategic reserve: criminal cases, not market buys.
The crypto market-structure bill faces a tightening calendar and competing floor priorities, with the firm's analyst now betting on a July vote rather than a sure thing.
Galaxy Digital halved its 2026 passage estimate to 50%, citing the Senate calendar colliding with Trump’s last-minute tie of the housing bill to the SAVE Act, while Polymarket traders put the odds…