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Cryptocurrency regulation in the United States, European Union, and China

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EU supervisors push firms toward the July 1, 2026 MiCA authorization deadline

Key takeaways

  • Major markets are no longer debating whether crypto should be regulated; they are diverging on whether it should be licensed, split across agencies, or broadly prohibited.
  • Stablecoins and tokenized assets now sit at the center of crypto regulation because they connect trading rules to payments, reserve management, and monetary-sovereignty concerns.
  • The next major checkpoints are tied to concrete dates: China's February 6, 2026 notice, the U.S. March 17, 2026 SEC-CFTC interpretation, and the EU's July 1, 2026 MiCA transition endpoint.

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