EBA has classified Circle's USDC as a significant e-money token under MiCA, with joint EBA and ACPR supervision from November 12. The EBA takes direct responsibility for Circle's own funds, reserves, liquidity and redemption plans.
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ESMA tells MiCA-authorised crypto firms to drop non-compliant stablecoins by 8 January 2027
ESMA told national regulators to have MiCA-authorised crypto firms stop servicing non-compliant stablecoins by 8 January 2027. The notice is supervisory guidance, so the date binds only as far as each national authority enforces it.
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ESMA told national regulators to make MiCA-authorized crypto firms clear their remaining exposure to non-compliant stablecoins by Jan. 8, 2027. New buying stops first, so the three months are an exit window in which platforms find out whether client balances get converted in-house or withdrawn.
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President Trump's administration put up to $215 million behind a fault-tolerant quantum computing contest in a science package of more than $6 billion. Nearly all of it pays out only after a team has a working error-corrected machine, so startups still fund the build privately.
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- Evidence55
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Circle asks Brussels to admit foreign-regulated stablecoins through an equivalence test
Circle says only 3 of the 25 largest stablecoins are regulated under MiCA and wants foreign issuers recognised through an equivalence test. Its case against the bank-deposit reserve rule matches Tether's, while the EBA wants tighter rules on foreign structures.
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Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.
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ECB and EBA want MiCA to ban stablecoin yield and vet DeFi protocols, Aave's Kulechov says
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the ECB and EBA want the Commission's MiCA review to ban stablecoin yield and tighten DeFi access. By his account, EU providers would keep DeFi access only for users who pass suitability tests, and perhaps only to protocols the authorities certify.
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- Evidence30
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- Incentives80
- Confidence35
Europe's central banks ask Brussels to extend MiCA's stablecoin yield ban to lending and staking
Europe's central banks asked Brussels to extend MiCA's stablecoin interest ban to lending and staking, a move a campaign says 50,000-plus citizens opposed. A ban that reaches borrower-paid returns could leave euro-regulated tokens unable to match perks offered by dollar stablecoins.
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ESMA would license the exchanges and wallets that route EU users into DeFi
ESMA proposed a new regulated MiCA service for firms that give users access to DeFi, a sector the EBA and ESMA put at about 4% of global crypto value. Exchanges and wallet apps serving EU users would carry the compliance cost, while the protocol code itself stays outside the regime.
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- Evidence45
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- Hype gap+20
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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European Banking Authority asks the Commission to weigh bringing crypto lending under MiCA
EBA asks the European Commission to weigh bringing crypto lending, found in at least 16 member states, under MiCA's regulated services. Its formal request is a cost-benefit study first, so suitability tests and leverage caps remain options.
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The ECB's September 22 submission to the Commission's MiCA consultation asks for the deposit percentages to go, with reserve assets instead having to mature within one to five working days. Significant token issuers currently park 60% in banks.
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EU supervisors rank foreign dependence ahead of a private credit book at 0.6% of bank assets
The Joint Committee of the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA handed EU governments an autumn risk update that puts reliance on non-EU ICT, clearing, ratings and foreign-currency funding at the top, with AI-enabled attacks and quantum next.
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- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence45