Poland’s Lower House Backs Crypto Freezes Under Sanctions Bill

The pre-judicial freeze is the real story here: it inverts the usual presumption that asset restrictions follow, rather than precede, a court's assessment, and the absence of an automatic appeal stay widens that gap. This lands most directly on exchange users in Poland whose assets sit with custodial platforms, and on the exchanges that must implement freezes on a designation rather than a ruling. The open question is how courts and exchanges calibrate the threshold for a designation, and whether the appeal process offers a meaningful remedy in practice once assets are already locked.