MiCA - A New Framework for the European Crypto-assets Market

Lawyers Luís Roquette Geraldes, Nicole Fortunato, Vera Esteves Cardoso, Ashick Remetula and Márcia Tomás Pires contribute to the publication MiCA - A New Framework for the European Crypto-assets Market. This book brings together contributions from various experts on the opportunities and challenges of the new European regulation for the crypto-assets market.

The book focuses on Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, which aims to respond to three main challenges:

• The lack of an EU regulatory framework for crypto-assets that do not qualify as financial instruments;
• The lack of user trust in the cryptoassets market;
• Legal uncertainty for companies providing services related to cryptoassets.

The articles written by Morais Leitão lawyers are

• The transfer of ownership of cryptoassets in the Portuguese legal system: Legal Aspects and Practical Implications of the MiCA Regulation, by Márcia Tomás Pires, which analyses the legal challenges of transferring ownership of crypto-assets in the Portuguese legal system.
• NFT: From Democratisation of Access to Legal Vacuum, by Nicole Fortunato and Márcia Tomás Pires, which reflects on the legal gaps surrounding NFTs.
• From Virtual to Crypto: Considerations before and after the MiCA Regulation, by Luís Roquette Geraldes, Vera Esteves Cardoso and Ashick Remetula, which looks at the evolution of the digital asset market and the impact of MiCA.

Read more about the book here.