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Licensing developments across the industry: MiCA and CASP authorisations, VASP regimes, EMI and e-money licensing, the UK regime, US market-structure legislation, stablecoin rules and regulator actions. For founders and compliance leads.
MiCA's great filter: thousands of VASPs, a few hundred CASPs
The MiCA transition window closed on 1 July 2026. Europe went in with roughly 2,700 registered VASPs and has come out with only a few hundred authorised CASPs. Here is where things actually stand.
The CLARITY Act inches toward the Senate floor
The US market structure bill cleared committee in a historic bipartisan vote and now sits on the Senate calendar. No floor vote is scheduled, and the August recess is the real deadline.
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