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EU banking watchdog EBA floats crypto lending rules in MiCA review

The European Banking Authority has outlined potential rules for crypto lending and for firms providing access to DeFi protocols, feeding into the European Commission’s review of MiCA. The proposals set out the EBA’s thinking on how lending activity and DeFi gateway services could be brought under the EU’s crypto framework.

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The EBA's move signals that EU supervisors see crypto lending and DeFi access points as gaps MiCA did not fully close, rather than as activities outside its reach. Firms operating lending desks or acting as gateways to DeFi protocols face the prospect of bank-style scrutiny, which could favor better-capitalized, compliance-ready players over purely on-chain structures. The open question is whether the Commission adopts the EBA's framing wholesale or narrows it during the MiCA review.

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