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Poland\u2019s lower house has approved a long\u2011delayed crypto assets bill to align national rules with the EU\u2019s MiCA framework.<\/p>\n
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With lawmakers under pressure to act before a July implementation deadline and amid public anger over the collapse of exchange Zondacrypto. According to Reuters<\/a>, the legislation will give Poland\u2019s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) clear powers over crypto\u2011asset service providers, introduce licensing and reporting obligations, and create criminal liability for serious violations tied to token issuance and exchange operations.<\/p>\n The political backdrop is unusually raw for a technical transposition of EU law. Prosecutors in Katowice have opened a large\u2011scale fraud and money\u2011laundering probe into Zondacrypto, with authorities and local media reporting that losses already exceed 350 million zlotys \u2014 roughly $95\u201397 million at current rates \u2014 and that thousands of users have been locked out of their accounts as the platform halted withdrawals. The Regional Prosecutor\u2019s Office has assigned the case to the Central Cybercrime Bureau, with investigators reviewing more than 1,500 complaints and examining whether funds of potentially illicit origin were funneled through the exchange.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prime Minister Donald Tusk has suggested the scandal may extend beyond ordinary financial fraud, telling reporters that \u201cRussian funds\u201d and foreign political influence \u201cmay be involved\u201d in the Zondacrypto affair, elevating it from a failed business to a potential national\u2011security issue. Zondacrypto\u2019s founder, Sylwester Suszek, has been missing since March 2022, while current CEO Przemys\u0142aw Kral has reportedly left Poland for Israel, further fueling public suspicion. In an earlier interview cited by CryptoRank<\/a>, Kral claimed Suszek never handed over keys to a wallet holding 4,500 BTC \u2014 then worth about $336 million \u2014 and that the address was last active in November 2025, leaving a critical hole in the exchange\u2019s balance sheet.<\/p>\n President Karol Nawrocki had twice blocked earlier MiCA\u2011implementation bills, arguing that sweeping new powers for the KNF and high supervisory fees risked over\u2011regulation and would \u201cpush innovation away\u201d by driving local exchanges offshore. Those vetoes left Polish platforms in limbo, with no domestic path to begin MiCA licensing even as other EU countries moved ahead, but the Zondacrypto fallout shifted the political calculus: as one recent analysis put it, Warsaw is now \u201creintroducing a tougher crypto\u2011assets bill after $97M fraud and money\u2011laundering allegations at exchange Zondacrypto,\u201d and parliament has chosen tighter rules over another delay.<\/p>\n The bill now goes back to Nawrocki\u2019s desk; if he signs it, Poland will finally have a formal licensing regime and enforcement toolkit for crypto\u2011asset firms under MiCA just as one of its largest exchanges becomes a test case for how far those new powers will be pushed in practice.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poland\u2019s lower house has approved a long\u2011delayed crypto assets bill to align national rules with the EU\u2019s MiCA framework. Summary Poland\u2019s parliament has passed a cryptocurrency regulation bill to implement…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28761,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions\/28761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}