The EU, finalizing its own Markets in Crypto Assets regulation, MiCA, is now looking to ensure that others are keeping up. Among the first public remarks she made after a deal was struck on MiCA back in June, the European Commission's financial-services chief, Mairead McGuinness, told CoinDesk she was hoping for greater international cooperation on crypto. This article is cited by People anywhere can profit from stablecoins without ever actively trading crypto. Because of their value in the crypto ecosystem, digital asset marketplaces pay extraordinarily high yields to those lending or “staking” stablecoins. While the average annual percentage yield for a savings account in the United States is 0.6 percent, that same money converted to a stablecoin and lent to a trading platform can yield 8 percent APY or higher.33 Two examples of crypto marketplaces that pay these yields are Nexo34 and Celsius.35
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