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The cutoff lands as a MiCA deadline approaches, with around three in four crypto companies registered across Europe expected to lose their licenses this summer.
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The cutoff lands as a MiCA deadline approaches, with around three in four crypto companies registered across Europe expected to lose their licenses this summer.
Five of the six are euro-denominated, but dollar stablecoins still hold the capitalization lead, with USDC the dominant name on the list.
The measure bars EU persons and entities from dealing with HTX, alongside a broader new mechanism that lets the bloc target any crypto venue based in jurisdictions that repeatedly enable Russian…
The exchange joins a sanctions list now read by every EU-hosted venue: the precedent is the cost of serving Russian users, not the token-level fallout.
The new rule is a countdown, not a clarification: platforms that handle EU and UK customers must block trading and withdrawals for any user who refuses to hand over a tax ID.
Tether's refusal to chase a MiCA licence while Ripple clears the bar underscores the two-tier market forming under Europe's new rules, and which issuers will actually serve EU users in 2026.
The MiCA deadline flushes Binance out of the EU on July 1, and the money is going to wallets, not to licensed competitors, a humbling read for Europe's new compliant venues.
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…