Coinbase expands in Poland with Blik mobile payments integration

Major US cryptocurrency speech Coinbase is expanding outgo options successful Poland by integrating with 1 of the country’s astir wide utilized mobile outgo systems.

Coinbase has partnered with European outgo processor PPro to alteration payments via Blik, a fashionable Polish mobile outgo web with astir 20 cardinal users.

The announcement was made by Coinbase enforcement and NFT Paris co-founder Côme Prost, who joined the speech successful February 2024 to pb its French operations.

“Improving section outgo rails is simply a cardinal absorption for us,” Prost said successful a LinkedIn station connected Wednesday, highlighting the value of simple, accelerated and acquainted outgo options successful driving crypto adoption.

Coinbase holds MiCA licence arsenic Poland struggles to walk crypto bill

Coinbase’s section enlargement comes arsenic Poland struggles to walk cryptocurrency authorities amid governmental divisions. Last week, the Polish authorities reintroduced an identical mentation of a strict crypto measure that had been vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki conscionable weeks earlier.

Coinbase holds a license nether the European Union’s Markets successful Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), which it secured successful June.

“It has been a pleasance moving with the squad astatine Coinbase to motorboat Blik connected their level to alteration Polish customers to entree Crypto,” PPro enforcement Tom Benson wrote successful a LinkedIn station connected Wednesday.

Source: Tom Benson

He added that helium was assured the concern with Coinbase would deepen successful 2026 arsenic the institution adds much section outgo methods and expands collaboration crossed further areas.

Poland’s crypto adoption booming contempt lagging section regulation

Crypto adoption successful Poland has surged contempt slow-moving section legislation, with the state emerging arsenic 1 of the leaders successful Chainalysis’ 2025 European Crypto Adoption report.

Poland is the lone EU subordinate authorities without a functioning nationalist ineligible model to enforce the MiCA regulation, adjacent though the model applies adjacent without ceremonial implementation.

Poland ranks eighth successful Europe by full crypto received, according to Chainalysis’ 2025 European Crypto Adoption report. Source: Chainalysis

Following the president’s veto of the government’s bill, Poland is so the lone EU subordinate authorities without immoderate measurement toward implementation,” Juan Ignacio Ibañez, a subordinate of the Technical Committee of the MiCA Crypto Alliance, told Cointelegraph recently.

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“Not each state has a azygous implementation law,” helium added, pointing to Germany and France, which person circumstantial laws, portion different subordinate states, specified arsenic Spain and Luxembourg, trust connected amendments to existing fiscal legislation.

Ibañez noted, however, that a lag successful implementation does not mean each countries are arsenic advanced, nor does it connote that Poland is much hostile to crypto. Hungary, for example, has implemented MiCA with further regulations that are “more unfriendly to crypto plus work providers than Poland,” helium added.