Earlier this month, the European Parliamentary Research Service published a document that estimates the combined benefit of EU crypto and DLT regulations at €33 billion annually. The legislation includes MiCA for crypto-assets and the DLT Pilot Regime for capital markets. That figure counts the efficiency savings but not the potential gains from innovation.
However, beyond the impact of blockchain legislation, the number also includes benefits from cyber resiliency and the use of data in the financial sector. But the breakdown of the numbers below is mainly the impact of blockchain.
Previous EU research estimated the crypto and DLT benefits at between €27 billion and €55 billion, including the innovation impact.
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