The EU has issued MiCA licenses to 53 crypto companies, including 14 stablecoin issuers and 39 crypto-asset service providers.

The latest data shared by Circle executive Patrick Hansen shows that the EU has currently issued MiCA licenses to 53 institutions, allowing them to "passport" within the 30 countries of the European Economic Area and provide services without applying one by one. Among them, 14 companies have been approved to issue stablecoins or electronic money tokens (EMTs), including Circle, Crypto.com, Société Générale, Stablemint, Quantoz, and StablR; Tether, as the issuer of USDT, has not yet obtained compliance permission and is not included in the list. The other 39 approved crypto asset service providers (CASPs) include BBVA, Robinhood, Coinbase, Kraken, and OKX. Binance did not appear on this list. [ChainCatcher]