EBA Travel Rule Enforcement & DeFi: What You Need to Know

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Updated European Banking Authority Travel Rule guidelines extend transaction information requirements to transfers involving unhosted wallets, potentially affecting DeFi exchanges, lending platforms, liquidity pools, and other protocols serving European users. Derived from FATF Recommendation 16, the rules require collection and transmission of originator and beneficiary data to support anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing efforts, creating challenges for decentralized and pseudonymous systems not designed to handle personal data. The text positions the Travel Rule alongside the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation as a broader compliance framework that may require protocols to assess their regulatory exposure, adopt identity verification and AML screening, securely manage data in line with GDPR, and monitor evolving guidance. It presents hybrid off-chain KYC and decentralized identity approaches as possible solutions, while promoting Didit’s AI-native modular platform, including free core KYC, liveness checks, AML monitoring, structured data exports, and integrations intended to support Travel Rule and MiCA compliance.

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