Once it becomes law, the bill would introduce multiple changes to the market, including strict requirements aimed at preventing collapses like Terra (LUNA)’s, as well as treating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) like crypto, European Commission’s (EC) technological innovation and cybersecurity policy adviser Peter Kerstens said on August 9, as CoinDesk reports.
Would Terra happen under MiCA’s watch?
Speaking at the Korea Blockchain Week, the EC’s adviser explained to the attendees that the $40 billion collapse of the Terra ecosystem wouldn’t have happened under the MiCA bill’s provisions which require stablecoin projects to be more transparent and allow client withdrawals at request. As Kerstens explained:
Treating NFTs like regular crypto
Meanwhile, the proposed MiCA bill doesn’t overlook NFTs either, as the official stressed that EU legislators “take a very narrow view of what is an NFT.” According to him: In other words, the new law would require issuers of NFTs to publish a whitepaper detailing all the specifics of the underlying protocol and prohibits making misleading and overly promising claims about their future value.
MiCA to come into full effect by 2024
Elsewhere, it also needs to be mentioned that the proposed rules and requirements set out in the MiCA bill are slated to become law in 2023, but aren’t expected to come into full effect throughout the EU before 2024. As such, the deadlines have prompted the European Central Bank (ECB) president Laura Noonan to issue a stern warning to Eurozone countries in early July about the dangers of national regulators potentially getting ahead of the law, as Finbold reported.
