Wallets: March headlines

- EU Lawmakers Vote in Favor of Payment Limits on Anonymous Crypto Wallets: Damien Carême, the French lawmaker who leads the parliament’s negotiations on the overhaul, earlier told reporters that the plans wouldn’t prevent crypto payments, because the cap of 1,000 euros won’t apply if a regulated wallet provider is involved or the identity of the payer is known (source)
- Elizabeth Warren is back with an Anti-Money Laundering act that would is likely to drive wallet providers overseas and weaken consumer choice: the act prohibits the use of digital asset mixers and requires self-hosted wallets, along with miners and validators to have AML policies (source)
- Crypto Wallet Prototype Discovered Inside Microsoft Edge Browser - the unreleased features suggest the tech giant is considering a deeper move into Web3 (source)
- Coinbase is starting a “wallet as a service” business that will allow companies to customize blockchain wallets for their own customers - the service could be used by gaming apps where tokens or NFT are part of the game, or by companies that might want to incorporate a wallet into an app and make that “almost invisible to the end user,” Patrick McGregor, Coinbase’s head of product for Web3 developer platforms, said in an interview (source)

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