The European Union will ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash by 2027. The decision is part of the EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), which explicitly prohibits credit institutions, financial institutions, and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) from maintaining anonymous accounts and handling privacy-enhancing
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted Guidelines 02/2025 on processing of personal data through blockchain technologies on April 8, 2025, highlighting serious compliance issues between blockchain and GDPR principles. The immutable nature of blockchain fundamentally conflicts with GDPR principles on storage limitation, accuracy and the right to erasure,
The European Union's pioneering cryptocurrency regulation, Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA), will be fully implemented by December 30, 2024, but national compliance deficiencies are hampering its effective enforcement. According to the European Commission, only seven of the 27 member states have established the proper legal frameworks to enforce
Google announced on April 15, 2025, that from May 31 it will implement new advertising guidelines for cryptocurrency-related advertisements in the European Economic Area (EEA), requiring advertisers to comply with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The tech giant's new policy mandates that cryptocurrency service providers must hold
