🚀 **Crypto News Flash: EU Crypto Market Set for Major Growth by 2025!** 🚀

- **Patrick Hansen**, Circle’s European strategy director, predicts significant advancements in the EU's crypto and stablecoin market by late 2025.

- Speaking at the **European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona**, Hansen highlighted the **Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)** as the key driver.

- MiCA provides comprehensive guidelines for governments, institutions, and investors, setting requirements for crypto exchanges and stablecoin reserves.

- Circle’s USDC was the first to snag MiCA’s inaugural stablecoin license, with its euro-pegged stablecoin, **EURC**, seeing a 60-70% jump since July.

- Circle has also applied for an Electronic Money Institution license in France, accepted by the French banking watchdog.

- CEO Jeremy Allaire is pushing for an IPO in the U.S., relocating Circle’s HQ to NYC’s One World Trade Center.

💬 **What are your thoughts on MiCA’s impact? Share in the comments!** 💬