Background The newly adopted European Union (EU) Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA Regulation) aims to provide a unified framework to regulate crypto-asset markets. Crypto-assets are defined in the MiCA Regulation very broadly as ”a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred
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