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A single weekly digest where the legacy-treasury unwind, the regulator's next move, the exchange's EU custody pivot, and a Russian state-bank wallet all land in the same news cycle.
The split suggests MiCA pushed retail toward self-custody rather than toward MiCA-licensed competitors, a structural read on how Europe's landmark crypto regime is reshaping user behavior.
The split lands as a pointed critique from the exchange that just left the bloc: MiCA may be driving users further from regulated venues, not closer to them.
The figure is a direct read on MiCA's first months: regulated venues are now the off-ramp, not the destination, for European crypto capital.
The shutdown cites MiCA, regulatory, financial and operational pressure, and a Coin Bureau report points to empty hot wallets, framing a full-balance recovery as uncertain for AscendEX users.
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
DefiLlama data shows Kraken leading every major liquidity and coverage metric, with Coinbase second and Crypto.com a distant third among EU-licensed venues.
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 Common Supervisory Action gives national regulators a shared template to grade CASPs on operational resilience, putting custody governance, key management, and incident response under coordinated…
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…
A small group of fully authorized digital asset firms gets a continent-wide payments franchise just as unlicensed competitors are forced to wind down.
The Luxembourg CSSF sign-off turns Ripple into one of the first US-rooted crypto firms to operate continent-wide under the bloc's new rules, before MiCA's full enforcement kicks in.
BitGo's Bielik deal shows how the regulation is preserving user access on the surface while quietly rerouting control of stablecoins through regulated bank and custody channels.
The Luxembourg CASP authorization is the first major US-headquartered crypto firm to clear MiCA's full bar, giving Ripple a structural edge as EU banks and payment processors shop for compliant rails.
The Luxembourg-issued CASP authorization is the first of its kind for a major US-headquartered crypto firm, letting Ripple passport regulated XRP and stablecoin services into every EU member state…
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 2017 ICO model is gone: legal, licensing, and banking costs now match traditional finance, while venture funding and M&A consolidate among a handful of well-resourced incumbents.
The move strips the world's largest stablecoin from a 40M+ user super-app and signals how far EU compliance pressure is reshaping retail on-ramps beyond MiCA itself.
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