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Tether says it has frozen roughly $550 million in USDT linked to the Central Bank of Iran and sanctions-evasion networks, acting in coordination with the US Treasury's Operation Economic Outcast.
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.
The CFTC has shielded passive wallet and interface developers from broker registration, while the SEC opened a temporary five-year window for tokenised stock trading — both arriving just days after the Clarity Act failed to clear the Senate.
A working paper by former ECB official Ulrich Bindseil and Circle's Patrick Hansen says MiCA's circulation conditions are isolating EU stablecoin holders from the dollar-dominated global market, and proposes an equivalence regime with regimes such as the US GENIUS Act.
A draft anti-money-laundering bill approved by Madrid would give police, tax authorities and intelligence services direct access to a registry of crypto accounts held at exchanges, without requiring individual data requests.
A year after MiCA's full implementation, around 20 euro-pegged stablecoins have won regulatory approval, yet daily trading volumes remain a fraction of their dollar counterparts, with Revolut's new EURR token entering an already crowded and thin market.