Durov blasts EU "banana republic" surveillance push
The Telegram founder's rebuke lands as Brussels weighs measures to extend lawful intercept powers across messaging apps, framing the fight as one over free speech rather than compliance.
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The Telegram founder's rebuke lands as Brussels weighs measures to extend lawful intercept powers across messaging apps, framing the fight as one over free speech rather than compliance.
The vote green-lights client-side scanning of encrypted chats on platforms from Signal to WhatsApp, with critics warning it breaks end-to-end privacy for 450M Europeans.
Less than two weeks after MiCA's grace period ended, Brussels is asking whether the framework needs a 2027 revision to absorb tokenized securities and foreign stablecoin issuers that didn't exist…
The first EU-wide custody review since MiCA went live gives supervisors a live look at how asset-references and segregation rules are holding up in practice, before any templates harden into binding…
Crypto-asset service providers are moving fast under Europe's new licensing regime; asset-referenced token issuers have not yet shown up, leaving the stablecoin side of the framework quiet.
The license lets Ripple passport XRP and its stablecoin services into all 27 EU member states under a single regulator-recognized framework, a structurally different footprint from the…
The exchange kept withdrawals open for roughly 2 million French users but stopped spot and margin. $1.6B in net outflows over the past month shows where the retail book already went.
The world's largest exchange is still pursuing a MiCA licence elsewhere in the EU, but says uneven authorisation timelines are pushing users, firms and tax base elsewhere.
The first register update after the EU transitional period lifts the authorized CASP count to 280, with Standard Chartered, FalconX, and Sygnum Europe all newly cleared to operate across the bloc.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application days before the July 1 deadline, and ESMA privately pushed national regulators to reject the exchange's other EU filings over financial-crime compliance…
The EU's MiCA framework takes effect July 1, and OKX is putting its global managing partner on camera to explain what stablecoin issuers and exchanges actually have to do to stay compliant.
The structural question isn't the rulebook itself but the consolidation it forces: lawyers project the bloc goes from roughly 3,000 registered providers to as few as 300 licensed firms.
ESMA's transitional window closes this week, and reverse-solicitation carve-outs are too narrow to keep offshore apps serving EU users in practice; enforcement through app stores will shape which…
The consultation is less an admission the framework failed than a first-mover lesson: stablecoins and tokenized assets now sit at the center of how crypto gets regulated, and the EU wants its regime…
Around 2,000 Polish crypto firms sit in regulatory limbo as President Nawrocki's third veto kills the law that would have let the KNF hand out MiCA licenses at home.
Roughly three in four crypto companies registered in Europe are expected to lose authorization under MiCA, cutting millions of EU users off from familiar venues within weeks.
The licensing count matters less than the cliff behind it: from July 1, any crypto venue serving EU clients without a MiCA license is operating illegally, and five member states have not issued a…
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.
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.