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Major US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding payment options in Poland by integrating with one of the country’s most widely used mobile payment systems.
Coinbase has partnered with European payment processor PPro to enable payments via Blik, a popular Polish mobile payment network with nearly 20 million users.
The announcement was made by Coinbase executive and NFT Paris co-founder Côme Prost, who <a href="https://x.com/coinbase/status/1762216543440560185?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">joined</a> the exchange in February 2024 to lead its French operations.
“Improving local payment rails is a key focus for us,” Prost <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/come-prost-boucle_weve-just-added-blik-payments-for-coinbase-activity-7407062668701863936-NCKx/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, highlighting the importance of simple, fast and familiar payment options in driving crypto adoption.
<h2 id="coinbase-holds-mica-licence-as-poland-struggles-to-pass-crypto-bill">Coinbase holds MiCA licence as Poland struggles to pass crypto bill</h2>
Coinbase’s local expansion comes as Poland struggles to pass cryptocurrency legislation amid political divisions. Last week, the <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/poland-resubmits-vetoed-crypto-bill-mica-debate" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Polish government reintroduced</a> an identical version of a strict crypto bill that had been <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/poland-president-veto-crypto-bill-political-clash" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki</a> just weeks earlier.
<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-secures-mica-license-names-luxembourg-as-eu-headquarters" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coinbase holds a license</a> under the European Union’s <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/markets-in-crypto-assets-regulation-mica" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)</a>, which it secured in June.
“It has been a pleasure working with the team at Coinbase to launch Blik on their platform to enable Polish customers to access Crypto,” PPro executive Tom Benson wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
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He added that he was confident the partnership with Coinbase would deepen in 2026 as the company adds more local payment methods and expands collaboration across additional areas.
<h2 id="poland-s-crypto-adoption-booming-despite-lagging-local-regulation">Poland’s crypto adoption booming despite lagging local regulation</h2>
Crypto adoption in Poland has surged despite slow-moving local legislation, with the country <a href="https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/europe-crypto-adoption-2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">emerging</a> as one of the leaders in Chainalysis’ 2025 European Crypto Adoption report.
Poland is the only EU member state without a functioning national legal framework to enforce the MiCA regulation, even though the framework applies even without formal implementation.
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 Poland ranks eighth in Europe by total crypto received, according to Chainalysis’ 2025 European Crypto Adoption report. Source: Chainalysis
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Following the president’s veto of the government’s bill, Poland is indeed the only EU member state without any step toward implementation,” Juan Ignacio Ibañez, a member of the Technical Committee of the MiCA Crypto Alliance, told Cointelegraph recently.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-stock-trading-prediction-markets-in-everything-app-push" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_self">Coinbase adds stock trading, prediction markets in ‘everything app’ push</a>
“Not every country has a single implementation law,” he added, pointing to Germany and France, which have specific laws, while other member states, such as Spain and Luxembourg, rely on amendments to existing financial legislation.
Ibañez noted, however, that a lag in implementation does not mean all countries are equally advanced, nor does it imply that Poland is more hostile to crypto. Hungary, for example, has implemented MiCA with additional regulations that are “more unfriendly to crypto asset service providers than Poland,” he added.

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