Members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to deal with corruption risks tied to crypto assets in its coming anti-corruption strategy. The request was reported on Oct 8, 2026.
Crypto was not the only item on the list. The lawmakers also named opaque ownership structures and digital tools as areas the strategy should cover, and they called for stronger asset recovery.
The Commission plans to adopt the strategy, its first on anti-corruption, by the end of this year. The report does not say which crypto measures, if any, the final text will include, and it does not give a timeline beyond that year-end target.
For someone already holding a perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this changes nothing directly. No exchange is named, no rule has been adopted, and nothing in the report touches funding rates, trading fees or liquidity. For now it is a request from lawmakers, and nothing has been decided yet.
Source: cointelegraph — EU lawmakers push crypto onto anti-corruption agenda