TETHER WALKS AWAY FROM EUROPE'S MICA STABLECOIN FRAMEWORK

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Tether abandoned MiCA compliance in the EU over a rule requiring 60% of reserves in commercial bank deposits, with CEO Paolo Ardoino arguing it would expose 400 million users to risk since EU deposit insurance caps out at €100,000 per account. Tether holds roughly 80% of its $183 billion in reserves in US Treasuries, and USDT was delisted from all EU exchanges on July 1, though Ardoino said Tether would reconsider "when MiCA becomes safer." The ECB and all 27 EU central banks have separately called to scrap the 60% bank-deposit rule.