The EU has issued MiCA licenses to 53 crypto companies; Tether and Binance are not on the list.

According to the latest data shared by Circle executive Patrick Hansen, 53 institutions have obtained EU MiCA licenses, allowing them to provide services with "passporting" in 30 countries of the European Economic Area without having to apply in each country individually. Among them, 14 companies have been authorized to issue stablecoins or electronic money tokens (EMT), including Circle, Crypto com, Société Générale, Stablemint, Quantoz, and StablR, etc. $USDT issuer Tether has not yet complied and is not on the list. In addition, 39 crypto asset service providers (CASPs) have been approved, such as BBVA, Robinhood, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, etc. Binance is not on the list. [Wu Shuo]