Habemus MiCA! 🇪🇺🚀 After more than 2.5 years of consultation, heated debates, last-minute amendments, and very close votes in the committee, the EU Parliament's plenary today passed the new EU crypto framework with an impressive majority of 517 MEPs for and 38 votes against. MiCA is the most comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets in the world, which is why (besides fears that it could ban bitcoin in the EU at some point last year) it has attracted global attention in the crypto community. Providing regulatory clarity amid global uncertainties, combined with its large single market of 450 million consumers, could make the EU the next natural global hub for crypto projects. Since there is still a lot of confusion about MiCA’s rules and their impact on crypto projects (be it CeFi, DeFi, NFTs etc.) and I received a lot of questions that I unfortunately can't answer all, I wrote an in-depth "MiCA Primer" about everything you need to know now - from MiCA’s origins, goals, rules for token issuers or crypto asset service providers to my thoughts on its implications for the industry in the EU and globally. I hope this is helpful. Feel free to ask any other questions in the comments, and let me know if you disagree. And last but not least: It’s spoken “mee-kaa” :P paddihansen.substack.com/p/t…