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Coinbase has told European Economic Area users they have until October 30, 2026 to withdraw balances held in 14 stablecoins that fail to meet MiCA requirements, warning that remaining holdings will be converted automatically.
The US Department of Justice is examining whether Binance breached its 2023 criminal settlement after prosecutors sought forfeiture of $61 million allegedly tied to laundered Iranian oil proceeds, as the exchange separately tightens compliance rules for Brazilian users.
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.