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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.
A draft bill from Germany's finance ministry would end the one-year tax exemption for crypto gains, taxing Bitcoin and Ether disposals as capital income regardless of how long they were held.
Binance is investing $100 million in Circle and has signed a five-year commercial agreement to expand the integration and promotion of USDC, with a particular focus on emerging markets.
A new BearingPoint survey of German crypto users shows custody habits closely mirror trading habits, with Trade Republic, Coinbase and Binance leading while traditional banks remain nearly absent.
A week of contrasts in crypto: Bitcoin spot ETFs bleed capital while XRP funds attract fresh money, Blockstream chases down stolen Bitcoin, Bitwise shutters its Dogecoin ETF, and Berlin floats a flat 25 percent crypto tax from 2028.
Russia's largest lender expects regulated crypto trading to reach roughly $46 billion in its first year under new legislation, with volumes potentially nearly doubling by 2029, deputy chairman Anatoly Popov says.