Previously, Binance was going to exclude from the listing tokens for the citizens of France, Italy, Spain and Poland from June 26.Such coins, which would allow for anonymity, would include Decred (DCR), Dash (DASH), ZEC, Horizen (ZEN), PIVX (PIVX), Navcoin (NAV), Secret (SCRT), Verge (XVG), Firo (FIRO), Beam (BEAM), XMR and MobileCoin (MOB).
“After careful consideration of feedback from our community and several projects, we have reviewed how we classify anonymous coins on the platform to comply with EU regulatory requirements,” crypto-exchange officials said.
Because the company operates as an exchange registered in various EU jurisdictions, it must follow local regulations that require trading platforms to “be able to track transactions for all coins.”
In May, the European Council finalized legislation to regulate the crypto-asset market. According to an official statement released by the council, the new law introduces “a single hormonized regulatory framework” across the eurozone.
Earlier US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce said the recently passed European Union cryptocurrency regulation bill could be a good model for oversight of the industry in the US;