EU digital asset regulation: what changed in June 2026
2 recorded developments, each dated with a named source. This page is the permanent record for June 2026; the tracker carries the current position.
In a published speech on priorities for European asset management, ESMA’s chair stated that DLT and fund tokenisation are beginning to reshape market practices, that ESMA is engaging with national competent authorities to build supervisory knowledge from real-life cases, and that part of that work concerns whether regulatory barriers to fund tokenisation exist, including in the UCITS and AIFMD regimes. Investor understanding of the rights attached to holdings was emphasised.
Source: ESMA, speech by the Chair, 12 June 2026.
Practitioner analysis of the Commission’s reform proposal records that MiCA-authorised crypto-asset service providers, and operators of organised trading facilities, would be added to the entities eligible to apply for permission to operate a DLT trading venue or DLT trading and settlement system, subject to the relevant MiFID II, MiFIR and CSDR requirements.
Source: European Commission proposal to reform Regulation (EU) 2022/858, 2026, as reported by practitioners.
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