Probably another round of money distribution, I see many sponsored articles about license laundering.

The license affects the compliance and legal access of European countries, and does not affect mainland users who are already the "black five categories". In other words, any foreign license does not affect the current awkward situation of mainland users being neither compliant nor legal.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about whether this foreign license is legal or not. Does being legal and compliant or illegal and non-compliant have any impact on the current near-zero "rights" of mainland users? If mainland users have problems, they still have nowhere to complain, right? Those with money and willingness can buy some traffic on X, hoping that "the crying child gets the milk," while those without money and no connections can't even find a place to cry.
The biggest problem that led to the current situation is that someone said the wrong thing, which is the root cause of this public relations crisis.
If they hadn't been constantly claiming that they were compliant and legal with all necessary licenses, these things wouldn't have happened. There are plenty of exchanges without European licenses; are they all not operating?
Just face it directly. If you haven't obtained the license, you haven't obtained it. Don't mention this matter in the future. Just handle it coldly. It's a simple matter.
The worst approach in a public relations crisis is:
I'm wrong, but I won't admit it. I'll substitute concepts, and finally hire a bunch of paid posters to clean up the mess, or simply play "moral blackmail."
No matter what brand, as long as it gets involved in "moral blackmail," heading toward doom is only a matter of time.
Don't forcibly explain anything with past history. If the past were the same as the present, then they wouldn't have been able to develop at all, and they wouldn't even have the chance to be compared. Who would care whether the license of a small exchange is complete?
Criticism stems from anger at their lack of striving. After all, without love, there is no hate. On the contrary, those who keep saying good things—who insist on saying it's good even when it's clearly wrong—are the ones who truly ruin everything.
Empress Dowager Cixi, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty and on her way to Shanxi with Emperor Guangxu, never understood why the eunuchs and ministers kept saying we are the world's NO.1, very good, very strong, very ok; how could it suddenly go from fine to not fine?
Many big influencers post whitewashing articles because they are paid, while many small influencers whitewash in various ways just hoping to be noticed by someone.
My dear friend, please don't live so humbly. Begging-type upward socializing is actively discarding your own personality and dignity in exchange, and even after losing your dignity and personality, those "gods" may not even glance down at us.
Our parents brought us into this world, not for us to "kneel on the ground" and gaze at the stars every day.