By Isadora Arredondo, VP Global Policy, Hedera

Two important deadlines for digital asset firms in Europe land days apart this month. Both relate to MiCA, the EU’s flagship crypto rulebook. On 30 September, the European Commission will finish gathering feedback on how those rules work. Two days before Europe’s banking regulator will wrap up its own consultation on how it calculates fines for issuers of significant tokens under its direct supervision. Both deserve more attention than the MiCA narrative currently making headlines, the sharp drop in the number of firms authorised to operate across Europe.

Back in June, more than three thousand digital asset companies were still allowed to serve customers…