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The EU Commission's consultation on revising MiCA closed on Wednesday, with Circle, Deutsche Börse and others demanding changes to stablecoin reserve requirements, while Berlin-based Greenfield Capital calls for lower hurdles for euro-denominated stablecoins.
More than 50,000 supporters of Stand With Crypto EU have written to the European Commission asking it to lift MiCA's ban on stablecoin interest and rewards, as the European Central Bank pushes to extend the restriction to crypto lending and staking.
AllUnity, licensed as an electronic money institution by BaFin, has launched USDAU, a dollar-pegged stablecoin built for institutional clients under the EU's MiCA regime, live across six blockchain networks.
A Dutch tax reform passed by the Second Chamber would replace the Box 3 system with a model taxing actual wealth returns, naming cryptocurrencies among the assets whose annual appreciation could be taxed from 2028.
Bank of Spain governor José Luis Escrivá called tokenised bank deposits 'a clear alternative to cryptocurrencies' at a September 15 forum, as the digital euro project moves toward strict wallet caps and European regulators seek to loosen MiCA's stablecoin reserve rules.
The Federal Council has ordered the Department of Defense to draft a new Cybersicherheitsgesetz by June 2027, mirroring the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, drawing criticism from open-source and Bitcoin advocates over bureaucratic burden and privacy.
A joint report from the EBA, ESMA and EIOPA warns that quantum computing could undermine cryptographic systems underpinning Bitcoin before commercially viable quantum machines even exist.
The European Securities and Markets Authority will direct national regulators to track tokenisation and AI use in investor-facing products, with first reviews already scheduled ahead of the 2027 start date.
RBI has widened its partnership with Bitpanda to offer bitcoin and crypto services in 11 Central and Eastern European markets, as European banks increasingly move into digital assets under MiCA.
A coalition including Nasdaq, Börse Stuttgart and Adan has written to EU lawmakers demanding the DLT Pilot Regime's caps on tokenised securities platforms be abolished or lifted to at least €1.5 trillion, arguing the Commission's €100 billion proposal still falls short.
Deutsche Bundesbank has become the first institution to self-host Matter Labs' Prividium framework, running a permissioned Ethereum layer-2 environment on its own infrastructure while anchoring validity proofs to the public network.
ECB's Isabel Schnabel says tokenisation technology could unite financial infrastructures split by national borders, while insisting stablecoins are no substitute for central bank money.