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France's cross-border crypto framework runs on two rails: MiCA's EU passporting/reverse-solicitation perimeter and DAC8's tax-information-exchange reporting. Non-EU CASPs are prohibited from lawfully providing MiCA-regulated crypto-asset services to, or soliciting, French/EU clients, except under narrow reverse-solicitation, per ESMA's public statement on the end of the MiCA transitional period. Conversely, an AMF-authorised CASP benefits from EU-wide passporting rights, allowing cross-border provision of crypto-asset services without separate host-state authorisation; this materiality-4 binding claim was downgraded to Probable this cycle for resting solely on a T4 source in a thin-evidence module. On the tax side, the French DAC8-implementing decree requires reporting crypto-asset service providers to identify and report on crypto-asset users linked to partner states or non-EU territories with an information-exchange agreement -- this claim shares the same legal-instrument attribution question flagged in tax_treatment regarding whether the December 2025 decree or the February 2025 Loi de finances is the true transposition vehicle.
On the other side of the same perimeter, an AMF-authorised CASP benefits from EU-wide passporting rights, permitting cross-border provision of crypto-asset services throughout the EU without the need for separate host-state authorisation in each member state. This materiality-4 binding claim rested solely on a single trade-press source in what is, for this claim, a thin-evidence module, and has been downgraded to Probable this cycle pending a stronger primary ESMA or AMF citation.
On the tax-reporting side, the French DAC8-implementing decree requires reporting crypto-asset service providers to identify and report on crypto-asset users linked to partner states or non-EU territories that maintain an information-exchange agreement with France. This claim shares the same legal-instrument attribution question flagged in the tax_treatment module: whether the December 2025 decree or the earlier February 2025 Loi de finances is properly the primary transposition vehicle for these obligations remains unresolved pending verification against the statute text.
Outlook
The passporting-rights claim would benefit most directly from a stronger primary source in the next cycle, given its materiality and its current downgrade to Probable. The cross-border DAC8 reporting obligations should be watched alongside the parallel tax_treatment module for resolution of the shared legal-instrument attribution question, since both claims stand or fall together on that point.
Cross-Border Transfer
CASPs authorised in France are subject to the EU Travel Rule threshold applying to self-hosted-wallet transfers: transfers above euro1,000 require the collection of identity-verification data under the directly-applicable Transfer of Funds Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1113. This threshold is not an FR-specific innovation but a directly-applicable EU rule that binds any CASP holding French authorisation, and it sits alongside the broader MiCA CASP authorisation requirement that now governs market access following the closure of the national PSAN route.
The rule's operative effect is to require CASPs to collect and verify counterparty identity information whenever a client initiates or receives a transfer to or from a self-hosted (non-custodial) wallet above the euro1,000 threshold. This is a materially low threshold relative to ordinary retail transaction sizes in crypto-asset markets, meaning the rule captures a substantial share of self-hosted-wallet flows rather than only large transfers. For an operator authorised in France, this represents an ongoing operational compliance obligation layered onto the licensing requirement, rather than a one-off registration step.
No FR-specific enforcement action against a CASP for Travel Rule non-compliance was evidenced this cycle. The rule is described as being in force at the EU level, and applicable to CASPs authorised in France, but the absence of an FR-specific enforcement precedent means the practical rigor of AMF supervision on this specific threshold remains untested in the available sourcing for this cycle.
Outlook
The Travel Rule threshold is stable and already in force; it is not a live reform item. What would sharpen this picture is either a named AMF enforcement action testing the euro1,000 threshold, or further AMF/ACPR guidance clarifying practical compliance expectations for CASPs handling high volumes of self-hosted-wallet transfers. Absent such a development, this module is likely to remain a stable compliance backdrop rather than a source of near-term regulatory movement.
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Cross-Border Transfer
The EU's 20th Russia sanctions package, in force from 23-24 April 2026, extended restrictions on Russia-related crypto activity that are directly applicable in France as an EU Council Regulation amendment to Regulation 269/2014. The package includes measures against the A7A5 stablecoin and RUBx, both associated with Russia-linked payment and settlement infrastructure, and bans all EU support for the digital ruble. Because the instrument is a Council Regulation, France carries no domestic transposition step; the restriction is enforceable immediately upon EU adoption.
For French crypto-asset service providers, this creates a sanctions-compliance layer that sits alongside, rather than replaces, the MiCA authorisation regime: a CASP can be fully MiCA-compliant while still carrying sanctions exposure if it services counterparties linked to the restricted instruments or the digital-ruble ecosystem. This finding is captured here specifically as a disambiguation fact for the crypto monitor's cross-border module; the substantive AML/CFT and sanctions-architecture analysis of the same restriction is tracked separately by the financial-integrity monitor's D1 domain, and this brief does not duplicate that analysis.
Outlook
Further EU sanctions packages extending the list of restricted Russia-linked crypto instruments, or clarifying enforcement expectations for EU-domiciled CASPs with residual exposure to A7A5, RUBx, or digital-ruble-adjacent counterparties, are the markers most likely to affect this module next cycle.
Sources and findings (3)
- T1 · ESMANon-EU CASPs — lawfully providing MiCA-regulated crypto-asset services to, or soliciting, French/EU clients, except under narrow reverse-solicitationretrieved M5bindingin force
- T3 · CoinDeskAMF-authorised CASP — EU-wide passporting rights allowing cross-border provision of crypto-asset services without separate host-state authorisationretrieved M4bindingin forceupdated
- T1 · Journal officiel de la République française / EUR-LexFrench DAC8-implementing decree — reporting crypto-asset service providers to identify and report on crypto-asset users linked to partner states/non-EU territories with an information-exchange agreementretrieved M4bindingin force