EU Parliament Wants MiCA Extended to DeFi, Staking and NFTs

On July 7, 2026, members of the European Parliament adopted a report, initiated by Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt, urging the European Commission to assess whether decentralized finance (DeFi), staking, crypto lending, and NFTs should be brought under regulation, crypto.news reports.

What matters here: this doesn't change the law or create new obligations yet — the adopted report becomes the European Parliament's official policy position, setting a direction for a future MiCA revision rather than being the revision itself, Cointribune notes.

The European Commission had already anticipated this move: it launched a public consultation on these same topics back in May 2026. The committee also called for promoting tokenization across financial services and encouraging euro-denominated stablecoins to support the EU's payments infrastructure.

What this means in practice: MiCA in its current form already stripped 80% of European crypto firms of their license, but it didn't directly touch DeFi protocols, staking, or NFT platforms. If the Commission ultimately follows through, the next round of regulation would reach a far wider set of crypto products than MiCA originally covered.

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