Ukraine's interest in joining the EBP dates back to July 2021, when Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi, the head of the Parliamentary group Blockchain 4 Ukraine, and Konstantin Yarmolenko, the founder and CEO of Virtual Assets of Ukraine, submitted a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Ukraine expressed its desire to join the EBP and the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure in the letter (EBSI). As an observer, Von der Leyen later confirmed Ukraine's potential membership in the EBP. Mairead McGuinness, the European Commission's Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union, recently stated that "all crypto-assets — whether they're unbacked crypto-assets or so-called stablecoins" must be regulated. The EU commissioner also stated that he intends to explore a proposal with the French government through MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets).