Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your essential rundown of the most important developments in crypto for the day ahead. Grab a coffee and settle in—Binance is quietly making moves in a corner of Europe that might reshape how crypto operates across the continent. Crypto News of the Day: Binance’s Greek Gambit Is A Late Entry But With Big Ambitions Fortune reported that Binance has formally applied for the European Union’s pan-European MiCA license via its newly established Greek subsidiary, ...

Approvals. Government nod. Crypto providers, it seems, can’t escape this. Regulators all over the world want blockchain companies, regardless of their offerings, to register and adhere to existing laws. By compliance, officials say crypto moves from the “wild”, unlocking institutional involvement. This is good and bad for crypto purists. However, in 2026, looking at recent trends, regulations has its benefits. After years of back and forth with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple, the ...

By Elizabeth Howcroft PARIS, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Nearly a third of crypto companies without an EU licence in France are still to tell the regulator ​whether they intend to get the licence required under new EU ‌rules or will cease operating by July, the country's markets regulator warned on Tuesday. Under the European Union's ‌crypto rules, MiCA, crypto companies must receive licences from national regulators in order to be able to operate across the bloc. Those rules, a landmark regulatory package, cam ...

🎙️ TUNE IN: Europe is rethinking its crypto rules.In @savannah_fortis latest Byte-Sized Insight, we look at the EU’s push to move crypto supervision under ESMA and what that means for firms across the region.@LewinBoehnke breaks down why MiCA works, where adoption is slowing, and how centralizing oversight could reduce friction in the EU. ...

Poland becomes EU's lone MiCA holdout after parliament fails to overturn veto on crypto bill https://t.co/xkW4b1mLHH ...

BPCE, France’s €1 trillion banking giant and the country’s second-largest financial group, will allow customers to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and USDC directly inside its mobile banking apps beginning Monday, Dec. 8. The move, first reported by The Big Whale, represents one of Europe’s most significant steps in integrating cryptocurrency transactions into banking institutions and infrastructure. According to an exclusive report from Raphaël Bloch, French co-founder of on-chain analytics firm TheBigWha ...

The euro stablecoin market has rebounded in the year since the European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) came into force, with market capitalization doubling after regulations governing the tokens rolled out in June 2024, according to a new report. The “Euro Stablecoin Trends Report 2025” from London-based payments processing company Decta points a potential shift for the tokens, whose value is pegged to the single European currency and which have historically struggled to gain trac ...

The European Commission has proposed shifting oversight of crypto firms from individual member states to the EU-level regulator ESMA to reduce fragmentation in MiCA enforcement and improve cross-border supervision. The move aims to unify financial-market regulation across the bloc but still requires approval from the European Parliament and Council. https://t.co/9wmdvvpyJE ...

KuCoin’s European subsidiary has secured a MiCA license in Austria, allowing it to offer regulated crypto-asset services across the entire EEA. Under MiCA’s passporting rules, firms licensed in one EU member state can operate in all 29 countries. The approval follows KuCoin’s recent registration with AUSTRAC in Australia. https://t.co/8TO3cHnUDz ...

🇪🇺 NEW: Pooled Order Books in the Crosshairs as EU Regulators Look to Tighten MiCA Oversight@IanAllison123 reports.https://t.co/ajtyG6dNpW ...