Spanish regulator no allow wetin e go extend MiCA deadline for crypto exchanges
Chairman for Spain National Securities Market Commission, Carlos San Basilio, tok say no be exception or extension for MiCA deadline for exchange wey dey serve EU users (MiCA compliance go start 1 July). Regulators dey coordinate with firms wey still no get license, but “passporting” na after registration for any EU country.
Binance na main case. Dem withdraw their EU application for Greece Hellenic Capital Market Commission, and as e be for report, as time that no get approval from any other authority. If Binance miss MiCA deadline for next few days, e fit make dem stop onboarding new EU users and limit some services for existing EU accounts starting 1 July.
Other exchanges don reportedly get last-minute approvals, which fit move liquidity and trading volumes go licensed platforms. The story still get another wahala: OKX CEO Mingxing Xu criticize Binance, but Binance reply say na company statement dem follow.
For traders, the main thing to watch na MiCA-related operational disruption—especially around user routing, access to liquidity, and volume concentration for licensed venues.
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Wetin dey risk for government enforcement (regulatory execution) na about taya MiCA deadline, no be say e go change the money (economy) way one certain crypto suppose work. For short time, traders fit see wahala for how order dey route, for onboarding, and for liquidity access—if one big trading place (especially Binance) no get approval before the MiCA deadline. That one fit cause temporary shift of volume go licensed exchanges. But because the rule dey apply for all EU, and many platforms don reportedly secure approval for last-last minute, the long run effect for overall market structure more be about how trading venues go scatter (fragmentation) and how people go migrate because of compliance, no be about whether price of one specific coin go continue to go bullish or bearish.