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Up to 80% of Europe's 3,000 pre-MiCA VASPs may not survive the cutover, and the EBA is pairing the licensing cliff with a 12.5% turnover fine regime aimed squarely at major stablecoin issuers.
The proposed ontology tries to put formal definitions around what an investigator means by a 'cluster' of addresses, drawing on the Sterlingov trial as proof the methodology can hold up in court.
Former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin takes the helm as IRACE adds Cayman-regulated banking and a roster of ex-Zodia execs, joining SoFi, BitGo and others building one-stop fiat-and-digital-asset…
From roughly 3,000 pre-MiCA registrations to 231 authorized CASPs, the July 1 cut-off is already consolidating Europe's crypto market, with industry sources warning it will deepen once the…
The 6x jump in yearly Monero delistings since 2023 is squeezing CEX access, while non-custodial routers route around the gatekeepers and ship public pricing APIs that keep the asset tradable.
A full C-suite clear-out on top of a buyer search suggests the derivatives venue is being prepped for a deal rather than a turnaround, with the price depression forcing cost cuts across the crypto…
The preliminary approval pairs with Ripple's existing EMI to passport payments and crypto across all 30 EEA states, but the ESMA conflict test on RLUSD issuance is the real gate the CSSF still has to…
The July 1 cutoff forces Ripple to secure a Digital Financial Asset License covering issuance, redemption, and custody in the state, or stop serving California customers.
The exchange is defending product availability while accepting that promotion patterns aimed at young retail users cross a line Zcash founder Zooko first flagged.
The legal path is open across the US, UK, and Europe, yet SCO60 prices a dollar of Bitcoin like a dollar of certain loss, so the equity charge is what decides how much digital-asset business actually…
The senior Democrat on House Financial Services filed an 11-page letter attacking the proposal as incoherent while the SEC is still building its digital-asset framework, and she could chair the…
The dispute is not whether Section 604 is a new shield, it is whether today's clarification becomes tomorrow's reasonable-doubt defense in trafficking prosecutions.
Virtuals is repositioning itself as infrastructure for what its co-founder calls an agent society, with five pillars spanning digital and physical agents, coordination, capital, and governance.
Roughly three in four EU-registered crypto firms will lose their licence this summer, in what CZ called the loss of the world's deepest liquidity pool.
The Spanish economy ministry is signalling that the December 30 transition deadline is final, with orderly customer wind-downs the only path for venues that have not secured a MiCA license.
The CNMV's hard line on the end-of-June deadline turns MiCA from a paper framework into an active market-access gate, with Binance among the firms now forced into a Spanish wind-down.
The former CEO's public criticism lands as Europe's unified crypto regime nears full effect, and exchanges without MiCA passports lose access to the bloc's institutional liquidity.
The sign-up bonuses are the surface play. The real prize is a regulated path to keep serving Europe's retail market after July 1, when unlicensed venues must wind down.
The world's largest exchange by volume won't be able to onboard new EU users from July 1, and existing customers in Poland, Italy, Spain and France have been told to withdraw their funds.
With no MiCA license lined up by July 1, Binance is freezing new EU signups and tightening services across the bloc, a setback that hands share to compliant rivals in Europe's largest retail market.
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