Every Nation, Every Register

Which countries keep an official register of crypto-asset firms, what a listing on each one actually proves, and — just as plainly — where we have not looked yet.

“Registered” Is Not One Thing

This is the whole reason this page exists. A firm can be on an official government register for reasons that have almost nothing to do with how it will treat your money, and every one of them gets called “registered” in ordinary speech.

The United Kingdom is the clearest example. A firm on the FCA’s cryptoasset register is registered under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 — it is supervised for its anti-money-laundering controls. That is notauthorisation to advise you, to trade on your behalf, or to hold your assets, and the UK has no equivalent of the EU’s MiCA regime in force. A firm can be legitimately on that register while nothing about how it treats your investment has been examined by anyone.

Compare that with the EU register we do hold, where each permission — holding your coins, selling them to you, advising you — is granted separately and named. Reading those two as the same word is the mistake this board is built to prevent.

What a Blank Means Here

Most boards of this kind have two states: we have it, or we do not. That invites you to read a blank as “no register exists”, when it usually means nobody has checked. Nearly every country on earth has a financial regulator, so an absence is a claim — and a claim needs a search that was actually finished.

So there are three states, and not established is the honest majority one. Where we have looked, the board shows what was tried and what was found, so you can see the shape of what we do not know rather than inherit a conclusion.

What Even the Strongest Licence Leaves Out

The EU register is the best-evidenced one we hold, and it still does not mean what most people assume. MiCA authorises a closed list of ten named services, and anything not on that list is simply outside the licence.

Lending, borrowing, staking and “earn” products are not on the list at all. A firm holding a full MiCA authorisation that offers you a yield product is running that product outside its authorisation, not under it. This is the single most consequential gap for a consumer, because earn products are where money is most often lost.
Crypto derivatives and futures are excluded — they fall under separate financial-instrument rules, not MiCA.
Stablecoin issuance is a different authorisation entirely. ESMA publishes issuers in separate files that we do not hold, so a properly authorised stablecoin issuer will never appear in our copy.
NFTs are out. The Regulation does not apply to crypto-assets that are unique and not fungible with others.

One thing did get simpler. Until 1 July 2026 a firm could serve EEA clients lawfully under a transitional regime while absent from the register — so absence proved nothing. That window has now closed in every member state, which means absence today is a meaningful signal in a way it was not a few months ago.

Four EU states have no home-authorised firm of their own: Greece, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Poland is the notable one — its implementing law has not passed, so its regulator cannot grant an authorisation at all. A Polish firm without one is not necessarily doing anything wrong; there is nothing for it to hold.

75 jurisdictions listed, of 195 UN member states. The rest are not on this board at all, which means the same thing as “not established” — we have not looked yet.

AustriaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 188 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 654 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
BelgiumWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 198 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 152 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
BulgariaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 176 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 135 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
CroatiaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 181 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 66 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
CyprusWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 185 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 430 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
CzechiaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 190 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 159 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
DenmarkWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 180 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 363 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
EstoniaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 179 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 36 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
FinlandWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 181 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 338 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
FranceWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 207 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 1,634 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
GermanyWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 296 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 2,825 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
GreeceWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 183 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 121 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
HungaryWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 175 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 214 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
IcelandWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 155 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 69 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
IrelandWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 187 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 589 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
ItalyWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 207 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 768 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
JapanWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
The sharpest contrast with the UK in this dataset. Registration under the Payment Services Act is a FULL business authorisation, not an anti-money-laundering tick-box: it carries capital, segregation of customer assets, cold-storage, conduct and reporting duties supervised by the FSA. Stablecoin issuers and security-token businesses sit on different FSA lists.
FSA list of registered Crypto Asset Exchange Service Providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: EXPRESS OPEN LICENCE, AND IT OVERTURNS THE 2026-08-21 READING ON THIS ROW. "The copyright for information posted or published on this website and the social media accounts of the Financial Services Agency ... belongs to the Financial Services Agency unless otherwise provided, and Public Data License (Version 1.0; PDL 1.0) [Digital Agency website] applies unless any rights are indicated." with the condition "The user must cite the source when using the Content. Sources should be cited in the following manner: Source: Financial Services Agency website (URL of the relevant page)" and, for edited content, "you must include a statement expressing that the content has been edited" — https://www.fsa.go.jp/en/rules/index.html, fetched 2026-09-06. ⭐ THE PREVIOUS ROW QUOTED THE PAGE FOOTER ("Copyright(C) 2017 Financial Services Agency All Rights Reserved.") AND STOPPED. That footer is site boilerplate printed on the Terms of Use page itself, directly underneath the open licence. A footer is not a licence; the second reading is the terms page.
Checked by: curl of /en/refer/index.html link-mined to the Terms of Use at /en/rules/index.html (the guessed /common/copyright.html and /en/refer/copyright.html both 404). MEASURED 2026-09-06 by scripts/probe_registers.py: en_kasoutuka.xlsx is a real OOXML workbook parsing to 682 data rows on both user-agents. · 2026-09-06
LatviaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 177 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 51 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
LiechtensteinWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 166 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 171 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
LithuaniaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 183 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 67 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
LuxembourgWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 196 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 1,239 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
MaltaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 180 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 230 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
NetherlandsWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 206 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 674 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
NorwayWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 164 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 299 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
PolandWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 182 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 623 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
PortugalWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 190 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 181 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
RomaniaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 176 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 101 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
SlovakiaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 179 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 74 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
SloveniaWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 182 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 26 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
SpainWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 208 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 1,150 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
SwedenWe hold it
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Authorisation under the EU's MiCA regime to provide named crypto-asset services. Each permission is granted separately — a firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not to hold it afterwards. It does NOT cover lending, staking or 'earn' products, crypto derivatives, stablecoin issuance or NFTs; those sit outside the authorisation entirely.
ESMA interim MiCA register — authorised crypto-asset service providers (Title V) — 184 firms have notified an intention to serve clients here
ESMA keeps a second register for this state: ESMA union public register — authorised investment firms (MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS) — 458 firms headquartered here, read 2026-10-18. A different register from the one above: it authorises investment services, not crypto-asset services. A forex or CFD broker appears here and not on the MiCA register.
Why we can or cannot copy it: ESMA publishes CASPS.csv openly, no key and no account required.
Checked by: ESMA's own CSV, fetched and parsed on every refresh · ESMA's file last changed 16 Oct 2026
ArgentinaLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
Created by RG 994 (2024), amended by RG 1058 (in force 26 May 2025). The duty to register flows from anti-money-laundering law (art. 4 bis, Law 25,246 as amended by Law 27,739) and is administered by the securities regulator — it is not a licence to provide investment services.
CNV Registro de Proveedores de Servicios de Activos Virtuales (PSAV)
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located — cnv.gov.ar returns a 157-byte JavaScript shell to every client we tried (curl, curl_cffi chrome124), so no footer or terms page could be read. The prior row's footer reading ("Comisión Nacional de Valores Argentina - 2026") stands and there is no reuse clause either way. ⭐⭐ WHAT DID CHANGE IS THE DATA, AND IT IS A TRAP: the download endpoint /SitioWeb/Reportes/ListadoRegistrosPsav is LIVE and returns a genuine 39,365-byte OOXML workbook with the correct Content-Type — and it parses to EXACTLY ONE DATA ROW PER SHEET (sheet 'Juridicas': 1 legal entity; sheet 'Humanas': 1 natural person), against CNV's own published figure of 101 registrations. The byte count and the MIME type both look healthy. Only the parsed row count catches it. The endpoint almost certainly needs query parameters that are set by the page's JavaScript.
Checked by: curl --ipv4 of the XLSX download endpoint (200, parsed with openpyxl: 2 data rows total across 2 sheets); curl and curl_cffi of cnv.gov.ar (JS shell, no text). · 2026-09-06
AustraliaLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
🪤 THE TRAP COUNTRY. AUSTRAC registration is an anti-money-laundering enrolment obligation only — not a licence, not an endorsement, and not authorisation to provide financial services. An ASIC Australian Financial Services Licence is a separate authorisation needed where the crypto product is a financial product. A firm may hold either, both or neither, and consumers routinely read an AUSTRAC number as full licensing. These must never be merged into one badge.
AUSTRAC Digital Currency Exchange Register — AND, separately, ASIC's licensee registers
Why we can or cannot copy it: EXPRESS GRANT WITH A NAMED CONDITION: "Copyright in all material produced by AUSTRAC is owned by the Commonwealth of Australia. This material is provided under a Creative Commons licence, except for the following: the AUSTRAC logo, the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, content provided by third parties." and "As long as you attribute copyright to AUSTRAC, you are free to copy, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute AUSTRAC-produced material as you wish." — https://www.austrac.gov.au/copyright, fetched 2026-09-06. 🪤 THE CC VERSION IS NOT NAMED on the page, so the exact licence text is unfixed even though the operative grant is unambiguous. 🪤 THE ROW COVERS TWO REGULATORS AND THEY DIVERGE: ASIC is NOT open for registers — CC BY 4.0 is granted only over 10 named document classes (regulatory guides, information sheets, ... short selling position reporting data) and registers are not among them: "You must obtain permission from ASIC before you reproduce any other online or offline content, apart from the 10 classes of document listed above." — https://asic.gov.au/about-asic/dealing-with-asic/copyright-and-linking-to-our-websites/, fetched 2026-09-06. So: AUSTRAC DCE register reusable, ASIC licensee registers not.
Checked by: curl --ipv4 of /copyright and /disclaimer, plus asic.gov.au/about-asic/dealing-with-asic/copyright-and-linking-to-our-websites (the singular 'copyright' path 404s). 🪤 THE REGISTER PAGE ITSELF STILL TIMES OUT to urllib on both user-agents (TimeoutError, 2026-09-06) while answering curl --ipv4 with 200 — a stack-level refusal, not a dead host. The row count is therefore still unmeasured. · 2026-09-06
BangladeshNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
BHLink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
A genuine licensing regime under the central bank's crypto-asset rules: a licensee is licensed to carry out regulated crypto-asset services, graded in categories. This is authorisation to conduct the business, not anti-money-laundering registration. REGISTER URL UNRESOLVED — two guessed paths 404'd and the site is JS-driven, so the register exists as an institution but its address is unverified.
CBB register of licensees — crypto-asset service licensees
Why we can or cannot copy it: Non-commercial status STRENGTHENS the ask but does not replace it: the CBB still requires permission, and it is free to request. | PERMISSIONED RATHER THAN FORBIDDEN: "The CBB allows you to print or store a reasonable amount of material from this site for your personal use or for use within your firm or organization, but material should not be copied, used or re-published in whole or in part without the prior written permission of the CBB and without acknowledging the source" — https://www.cbb.gov.bh/copyright/, fetched 2026-09-06. ⭐ THE PERMISSION ROUTE IS DOCUMENTED AND EXPLICITLY CONTEMPLATES ONWARD SALE: condition 2 is "Where the information is incorporated in documents that are sold (regardless of the medium), the natural or legal person publishing the information must inform buyers ... that the information may be obtained free of charge through the CBB's website." Requests go to the External Communications Unit, Central Bank of Bahrain, PO Box 27, Manama. Unlike the FCA there is NO PRICE attached — this is an ask, not a purchase.
Checked by: Two guessed register paths 404'd; the homepage yielded no recoverable links from static HTML. · 2026-09-06
BMNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: WebFetch of the BMA digital-assets page — it links legislation and guidance and carries an Investment Funds List for a different sector, but names NO public list of licensed digital asset businesses. Register existence therefore unconfirmed. · 2026-08-21
BrazilNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to CVM — Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil), consultations/complaints/reports channel, but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
Checked by: WebSearch in Spanish/Portuguese only. Secondary sources; not verified against the regulator. · 2026-08-21
CanadaLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
A FINTRAC listing certifies anti-money-laundering registration ONLY — dealing in virtual currency has been a registrable activity since 1 June 2020. It is explicitly not a licence and carries no certificate. Permission to provide investment services is a separate track: the CSA/CIRO list of authorised crypto trading platforms is the one to check before trading, and the two lists do not overlap.
FINTRAC Money Services Business Registry (AML). Separately: the CSA list of crypto platforms authorised to do business with Canadians, and CIRO dealer membership.
Why we can or cannot copy it: Published under the named "Open Government Licence - Canada" (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada), per the dataset record at https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8beacccf-3b54-4d12-9cf7-24e2ada90a83, fetched 2026-08-21. Daily bulk XLSX at fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/msb-esm/reg-eng.xlsx. CAVEAT: the licence NAME was captured verbatim, the full clause text was not fetched.
Checked by: WebFetch of the open.canada.ca dataset record (succeeded). 🪤 www10.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca is DEAD (ENOTFOUND); the live host is fintrac-canafe.canada.ca. · 2026-08-21
ChileLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
Not crypto-specific — it covers crowdfunding, alternative trading, intermediation, order routing, advice and custody, catching crypto only where the asset is a financial instrument. CRITICAL: being ON the register is not permission to operate. Registration and authorisation are two separate acts of the regulator and a firm can be registered without being authorised.
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located and the host is UNREACHABLE FROM HERE, same shape as Indonesia. cmfchile.cl timed out at 45s on 2026-09-06 across curl, curl --ipv4 and curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124, with no HTTP response, no challenge and no TLS error. The prior row's 'no primary regulator page was fetched' still stands and now has a measured reason. Re-test from a different egress before concluding anything about the CMF.
Checked by: WebSearch in Spanish/Portuguese only. Secondary sources; not verified against the regulator. · 2026-09-06
ColombiaNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC) — 'Formule su queja' complaints and PQRSFD form, but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
Checked by: WebSearch only; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
EGNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: One WebSearch; no primary source fetched. · 2026-08-21
GGLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
STRONGER THAN JERSEY — do not lump the Crown Dependencies into one row. Guernsey requires a full VASP LICENCE for anyone providing virtual asset services in or from the Bailiwick, and a licensed provider is additionally subject to anti-money-laundering supervision. So Guernsey certifies licence plus AML, where Jersey and the Isle of Man certify AML registration alone.
GFSC Guernsey Regulated and Registered Entities
Why we can or cannot copy it: Re-read 2026-09-06 under the arm's ACTUAL status, which the first pass got wrong: The Market Standard is FREE and takes no money from anyone it writes about. Its own /about page publishes this — "It is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier and nothing to buy" and "we have nothing to sell you". The earlier verdict reasoned about a commercial surface and there is not one. GFSC licenses reproduction with attribution for advice or commentary and bars material 'circulated for profit'. A free register that sells nothing does not circulate for profit, so reproduction is licensed here — with the GFSC acknowledged. (Previous verdict: AN EXPRESS GRANT THAT STOPS EXACTLY AT COMMERCE: "You may print and download information including documents, visual ima…)
Checked by: A guessed path 404'd; link-mining recovered the live per-sector paths. Providers sit under the lending/credit/finance sector, not a standalone crypto page. · 2026-09-06
GILink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
TWO DIFFERENT THINGS ON ONE ISLAND, and they must not be merged. A DLT Provider licence is a full authorisation for firms using distributed ledger technology to store or transmit value belonging to others — roughly 13 hold one. A SEPARATE VASP registration exists for virtual-asset businesses caught by proceeds-of-crime law, and that one is anti-money-laundering only. A consumer must be told which they are looking at. Post-Brexit Gibraltar is outside the EEA: neither confers an EU passport.
GFSC Regulated Entities register — DLT Providers, plus separate anti-money-laundering VASP registrations
Why we can or cannot copy it: NO REPRODUCTION CLAUSE EXISTS IN EITHER DIRECTION — the word 'reproduce' does not appear on the page — BUT THE ACQUISITION ROUTE IS EXPRESSLY CLOSED: "Users must not: ... use robots, bots, spiders, scrapers, data mining tools or similar technologies to extract or collect information from the website without prior written permission from the GFSC" and "Publicly available information must not be used for unlawful, fraudulent, discriminatory, marketing or harassment purposes." — https://www.fsc.gi/disclaimer, fetched 2026-09-06. ⭐ Recorded as link_only on the ACQUISITION bar, not a copyright bar: there is no lawful automated way to obtain the rows without asking, so the reproduction question never arises.
Checked by: curl 403 with a WAF block page on both the register and the disclaimer; curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 returned both (200, 21,020 chars on the disclaimer). ⭐ THE 2026-08-25 'BLOCKED' VERDICT ON fsc.gi IS OVERTURNED at tier 2 of the ladder — the 12s Camoufox challenge wait was not even needed. · 2026-09-06
Hong KongLink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
🪤 ONE PAGE, FOUR LISTS, AND ONLY ONE MEANS LICENSED: 12 licensed platforms · 6 applicants including "deemed-to-be-licensed" ones · 16 refused, returned or withdrawn · closing-down platforms. The SFC's own words: "All VATP applicants on this list are NOT licensed by the SFC" and "the SFC has NOT formally licensed the deemed-to-be-licensed VATP applicants." Anything reading the page wholesale merges licensed operators with refused applicants.
SFC Lists of Virtual Asset Trading Platforms
Why we can or cannot copy it: SUPERSEDES THE 2026-09-06 'NO TERMS PAGE' READING. The SFC Disclaimer (https://www.sfc.hk/en/Quick-links/Others/Disclaimer, 'Last update: 4 Oct 2019', read 2026-10-09): "Such materials may be downloaded or printed for personal use or for use within an individual firm or organisation but may only be used for personal viewing purposes or for viewing within that firm or organisation. Such materials may not be reproduced for or distributed to third parties, or used for commercial purposes, without the SFC's prior written consent. Consent is not required where extracts of no more than a few relevant paragraphs are to be copied to third parties incidental to advice or other activities, provided that the source is properly acknowledged." Bulk republication needs written consent (enquiry@sfc.hk). Previous reading: NO TERMS-OF-USE PAGE EXISTS ON sfc.hk THAT WE COULD LOCATE, after checking the homepage, /Quick-links, /Sitemap and the register page itself (all fetched 2026-09-06). The only statement is the site-wide footer "Copyright 2020 Securities and Futures Commission. All rights reserved." — a bare reservation with no grant and no express prohibition. 🪤 CONSISTENCY FLAG FOR RAY: the KY (Cayman) row was set to link_only on identical evidence — an all-rights-reserved footer and nothing else. One of these two rows is mis-bucketed and it is a policy call, not a research gap: decide once whether a bare 'all rights reserved' is silence (unclear) or a refusal (link_only), then apply it to both. Held as unclear here because the brief's own rule is that silence is not permission either way, and because the LOOKUP product survives an all-rights-reserved notice in a way it does not survive an express 'must not store' clause.
Checked by: First guessed URL 404'd; WebSearch found the correct path, WebFetch succeeded. A separate alert list of suspicious platforms exists and must not be merged with the register. · 2026-10-09
IMLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
THE CLEAREST "LOOKS LIKE MORE THAN IT IS" CASE IN THIS SET. A business carrying on convertible virtual currency activity registers as a DESIGNATED BUSINESS — anti-money-laundering oversight, explicitly NOT a licence and not prudential regulation. The register lets you filter by business type, and Designated Business is a distinct type from the licensed categories, so the distinction is visible in the data if the type field is carried through. Firms routinely market Isle of Man registration as though it were an Isle of Man licence.
IOMFSA Register Search — Designated Businesses
Why we can or cannot copy it: The Isle of Man FSA's complete Terms & Conditions were read in full (4,852 chars, https://www.iomfsa.im/terms-conditions/terms-conditions/, fetched 2026-09-06) and they contain NO reproduction, copyright or reuse clause of any kind. The only signal pointing at reuse is the opening line "This website is maintained for your personal use and viewing." — a purpose limitation, not a prohibition. Footer: "© Copyright 2026 Isle of Man FSA". Silence, and silence is not permission.
Checked by: A guessed path redirected to a 404; link-mining recovered /register-search/, confirmed 200 with the business-type filter. · 2026-09-06
IndiaLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
Purely anti-money-laundering. Providers, onshore and offshore, must register as Reporting Entities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002. It confers NO investor protection and no conduct supervision — India has no securities-style crypto licensing regime. About 50 registered on recent reporting, and the count has grown steadily, so any figure must carry its date. 'Not on the list' can mean unregistered OR under enforcement.
FIU-IND list of registered Virtual Digital Asset Service Providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: Re-read 2026-09-06 under the arm's ACTUAL status, which the first pass got wrong: The Market Standard is FREE and takes no money from anyone it writes about. Its own /about page publishes this — "It is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier and nothing to buy" and "we have nothing to sell you". The earlier verdict reasoned about a commercial surface and there is not one. FIU-IND bars COMMERCIAL use without written permission and says nothing against non-commercial use. 🪤 Attribute and do not paywall; the moment any part of this register sits behind payment this row reverts. (Previous verdict: "Commercial use of web contents is prohibited without the written permission of the Department." — https://fiuindia.gov.…)
Checked by: One WebSearch. The current canonical list URL was not located. · 2026-09-06
IndonesiaLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
JURISDICTION IN TRANSITION, the most volatile entry here. Supervision of crypto assets transferred from the commodity-futures regulator to the financial services authority on 10 January 2025, with handover running to about January 2027. Crypto was historically regulated as a COMMODITY. At handover there were 16 licensed traders plus 14 prospective ones, and existing licences remain valid — so a firm may legitimately show a licence issued by a regulator that no longer supervises it, and 'licensed' versus 'prospective' must not be flattened.
Register of licensed Physical Crypto Asset Traders — authority transferred from Bappebti to OJK
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located and the host is UNREACHABLE FROM HERE, which is a different finding from 'blocked'. ojk.go.id timed out at 45s on every attempt on 2026-09-06 — curl, curl --ipv4 and curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124, on both /en/Default.aspx and /id/Default.aspx — with no HTTP response at all, no challenge page and no TLS error. A connection that never completes is not a WAF verdict; it is more consistent with a network path or a geographic block, and it needs re-testing from a different egress before anything is concluded about OJK.
Checked by: One WebSearch, which returned the official joint press release confirming the transfer and the counts, but no link to a published register. · 2026-09-06
IsraelNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to Israel Securities Authority, but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
Checked by: One WebSearch; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
JELink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
STRUCTURALLY THE SAME SHAPE AS THE UK. Registration is under proceeds-of-crime supervision to bring providers within anti-money-laundering oversight — it is NOT authorisation to provide investment or payment services. Exchange businesses have had to register since 2016 and the regime widened from January 2023.
JFSC — Jersey-registered Virtual Asset Service Providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located. jerseyfsc.org hard-403s to plain curl AND to curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 (2026-09-06), on both the homepage and a guessed /legal/terms-and-conditions/ path — 5.9 KB Cloudflare block pages, 16 chars of text. Unlike Gibraltar, tier 2 of the ladder did NOT clear this one. Camoufox with the 12s adaptive challenge wait is the next rung and has never been tried here.
Checked by: jerseyfsc.org returned 403 to a plain client, same as Gibraltar; regime confirmed by search only. · 2026-09-06
KENot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: One WebSearch; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
KYLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
Cayman runs TWO tiers and conflating them is the trap. Baseline REGISTRATION under the VASP Act has been open since 31 October 2020 (about 19 registered VASPs as of February 2026). Phase 2 LICENSING took effect 1 April 2025: a firm providing virtual-asset custody or operating a trading platform must now hold a full CIMA licence, not merely be registered. "Registered with CIMA" is materially weaker than "licensed by CIMA".
CIMA regulated-entities search (VASP registration and, since 2025, VASP licensing)
Why we can or cannot copy it: "© 2026 Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. All Rights Reserved." — https://www.cima.ky/virtual-asset-service-providers, fetched 2026-08-21. No permissive clause located; all-rights-reserved is an assertion of copyright.
Checked by: WebSearch + WebFetch of cima.ky/virtual-asset-service-providers. The regulated-entities search itself was NOT fetched, so it is unconfirmed that VASPs are filterable there. · 2026-08-21
MalaysiaLink only
Securities only. Registered for securities activity, which may not cover crypto-assets.
The cleanest securities case anywhere in this dataset. Malaysia PRESCRIBES digital currencies and tokens as securities by order, so exchanges are registered as Recognized Market Operators under capital-markets law. Six were registered as of December 2025. The same list family also covers crowdfunding and peer-to-peer operators, and custodians sit on separate lists — so 'SC-registered' alone does not say which activity is permitted. The central bank does NOT license crypto exchanges.
SC Malaysia List of Registered Digital Asset Exchanges
Why we can or cannot copy it: NEARLY WORD-FOR-WORD THE FCA CLAUSE: "No part of this Site may be reproduced or stored in any other website or be included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or services without the prior written permission of the SC." — and, uniquely in this set, "No part of this Site may be linked to any other web site without the prior written permission of the SC." — https://www.sc.com.my/about/disclaimer, fetched 2026-09-06. 🪤 MALAYSIA IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 27 THAT PURPORTS TO RESTRICT LINKING ITSELF, so the link-only fallback product is not automatically safe here either.
Checked by: 🪤 A fetch of sc.com.my/regulation/digital-assets returned a 404 whose body was an unrelated TalentCorp Malaysia maintenance page — a CDN or resolution oddity worth re-testing. The list URL came from a search result title and was NEVER fetched. · 2026-09-06
MexicoLink only
Payments only. Permitted to move money. Says nothing about investment services.
This is NOT a crypto register. It lists authorised financial-technology institutions — chiefly electronic payment funds and crowdfunding. A listing certifies payments or crowdfunding authorisation. No separate register of authorised virtual-asset activity was located, and there is no positive evidence that none exists.
Why we can or cannot copy it: Re-read 2026-09-06 under the arm's ACTUAL status, which the first pass got wrong: The Market Standard is FREE and takes no money from anyone it writes about. Its own /about page publishes this — "It is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier and nothing to buy" and "we have nothing to sell you". The earlier verdict reasoned about a commercial surface and there is not one. CNBV names and bars public display FOR A COMMERCIAL PURPOSE. A free public-interest register is not that purpose. (Previous verdict: gob.mx hosts the CNBV padrón and its terms are restrictive: "Se autoriza al Usuario a visualizar y descargar los materia…)
Checked by: curl returned an Akamai 'Challenge Validation' interstitial; curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 returned the real terms page (200, 11,351 chars). The CNBV register URL itself is still not located. · 2026-09-06
MULink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
A real class-based licensing regime in force since February 2022 — for example a broker-dealer class covering crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto exchange, and a wallet-services class covering transfer and custody. ⭐ CRITICAL FOR EUROPEAN READERS: the licence permits business in or from Mauritius under Mauritian law. It confers NO right to solicit or serve EU consumers and is not MiCA-equivalent. Firms marketing to Europeans on the strength of it are overstating it.
FSC Mauritius — licensees under the Virtual Asset and Initial Token Offering Services Act 2022
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located, and now we know WHY rather than merely that. fscmauritius.org is behind IMPERVA/Incapsula: every client returns an 846-byte page whose body is "<iframe id='main-iframe' src='/_Incapsula_Resource?...'>" — curl, curl --ipv4 and curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 alike (2026-09-06). This is a statement about our access, not about the site. It needs the Camoufox rung with the 12s adaptive challenge wait.
Checked by: curl (200/212 B), curl --ipv4, curl_cffi chrome124 (200/846 B) — all three return the Incapsula challenge iframe. Tier 3 (Camoufox) not yet attempted. · 2026-09-06
New ZealandLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
New Zealand has deliberately NOT created a standalone crypto licensing regime. A crypto firm must appear on the FSPR, which is a public DIRECTORY — registration does not mean the FMA has assessed, approved or supervises the firm. Anti-money-laundering supervision sits with a different department entirely. The FSPR has historically been abused by offshore firms for the appearance of New Zealand regulation, so treating an entry as authorisation is a known consumer harm.
Financial Service Providers Register
Why we can or cannot copy it: 🚨 THE OBVIOUS READING IS WRONG AND THE CARVE-OUT IS THE FINDING. The Companies Office copyright page does say "this copyright material is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. In essence, you're free to copy, distribute and adapt the material, as long as you attribute it to MBIE" — but the sentence that scopes it reads "copyright material on the Companies Office website (EXCLUDING THE PUBLIC NOTICES AND CONTENTS OF THE REGISTERS) is protected by Crown Copyright". The register contents — which is the only thing we want — are carved out of the licensed material. — https://www.companiesoffice.govt.nz/about-us/copyright/, fetched 2026-09-06. The FSPR's own terms and conditions (https://fsp-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/about/terms-and-conditions/, fetched same day) govern an online-services filing ACCOUNT and say nothing about reuse at all. So: not a grant, not a prohibition, and 'NZ is CC-BY' is the specific mistake to avoid.
Checked by: One WebSearch; the register itself was not fetched. Our taxonomy's 'anti-money-laundering only' is generous here — the FSPR certifies little more than that the entity filed. · 2026-09-06
NigeriaLink only
Securities only. Registered for securities activity, which may not cover crypto-assets.
The Investments and Securities Act 2025 recognises virtual assets AS SECURITIES, putting providers under the securities regulator as capital market operators — so registration is securities registration, not a bespoke crypto regime. The central bank holds a separate banking-side posture. REGISTER URL UNRESOLVED: the obvious digital-assets path 404s.
Nigerian SEC — registered digital asset service providers, as capital market operators
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located. sec.gov.ng answers (200, 53,899 bytes via curl_cffi, 2026-09-06) but renders to 2,402 characters of text with ZERO anchor tags matching terms / copyright / legal / disclaimer / privacy — a JavaScript shell. The capital-market-operators listing path is still not located, and /terms-of-use/ and /about-us/ both 404.
Checked by: curl of sec.gov.ng/digital-assets/ (404); the live capital-market-operators listing path was not located. · 2026-09-06
PANot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: WebSearch only; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
PakistanNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) — Service Desk (complaint filing), but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
PhilippinesLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
Licensed under Circular 1108 (2019) within the money-service-business framework: conversion, exchange and transfer of virtual assets, with anti-money-laundering, consumer-protection and capital duties. Many holders ALSO hold a separate electronic-money licence, and the two sets of permissions must not be merged. Securities-style crypto offerings fall to a different regulator entirely. The list is actively pruned for inactivity, so a cached copy goes stale fast.
BSP Directory of registered Virtual Asset Service Providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: THE MOST PERMISSIVE OF THE 27, AND IT NAMES COMMERCIAL RESALE EXPLICITLY: "The Contents included in this Site may be quoted, copied, or reproduced in whole or in part provided that the BSP is duly credited. Users are permitted to re-sell, re-distribute, or create derivative works of the Contents for commercial purposes under the following conditions: Users must maintain proper attribution to the BSP as the data source in all instances, including in re-distributed and derivative works... Users must inform their buyers or customers that the Contents can be freely retrieved from the BSP website, both before any fees are paid and each time the Content is made available to them... Any modifications to the original Content must be clearly identified" — https://www.bsp.gov.ph/Pages/AboutTheBank/Terms-of-Use.aspx, fetched 2026-09-06. Excepted: facsimiles of Philippine currency, the BSP logo, and third-party content.
Checked by: curl 403 → curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 returned 200 and link-mined the Terms of Use. 🪤 THE MIRROR IMAGE OF THE MAS TRAP: bsp.gov.ph serves 200 to the honest KyanoLab-Record/1.0 user-agent and an Imperva challenge to a Chrome user-agent on a non-Chrome TLS handshake. Neither UA is 'the right one'. The VASP directory URL itself is still not located — only the regulator homepage was reached. · 2026-09-06
QALink only
Securities only. Registered for securities activity, which may not cover crypto-assets.
IMPORTANT NEGATIVE. Qatar's 2024 digital-asset and investment-token rules cover INVESTMENT AND SECURITY TOKENS and explicitly EXCLUDE cryptocurrencies and most stablecoins. So an entry here can never certify a firm to provide ordinary crypto exchange, brokerage or custody — that activity is outside the framework entirely. A firm claiming to be "Qatar regulated for crypto" is almost certainly misrepresenting a token-securities permission.
QFCRA Public Register
Why we can or cannot copy it: Non-commercial status does NOT help here: QFCRA bars use 'for public OR commercial purposes'. Public display is barred on its own terms, whatever the profit motive. | "...any material on the site may not be copied, displayed, distributed, downloaded, licensed, modified, published, re-posted, reproduced, reused, sold, transmitted, used to create a derivative work or otherwise used for public or commercial purposes in whole or in part without prior written permission from the QFCRA and without acknowledging the source, either by the use of appropriate words or by our copyright notice (Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority)." — https://www.qfcra.com/legal-notice/, fetched 2026-09-06.
Checked by: curl of the public register (200, JS search UI); one WebSearch for the framework's scope. · 2026-09-06
SANot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: One WebSearch; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
SCLink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Confirmed live and genuinely a licence register: four categories — wallet provider, broking, exchange, investment provider — under the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2024. ⭐ THE CAVEAT MATTERS MORE HERE THAN ALMOST ANYWHERE, because several very large global exchanges are Seychelles-incorporated: the licence authorises business under Seychellois law and carries NO EU passporting, no MiCA equivalence and no EU investor-compensation cover. "Licensed in Seychelles" is not "licensed to serve you".
FSA Seychelles — Licensed VASPs
Why we can or cannot copy it: Unchanged from 2026-08-21 and re-affirmed: no reproduction clause exists in either direction, so this is NOT permission. The anti-scraping clause stands — "You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the websites." — https://fsaseychelles.sc/terms-conditions. 🪤 Note the wording bars means NOT intentionally made available: the licensed-VASP page IS intentionally published, so this clause is weaker than Gibraltar's explicit bots-and-scrapers ban.
Checked by: WebFetch of the register (four categories confirmed, no CSV/Excel offered); curl + tag-strip of both /terms-conditions and /disclaimer. · 2026-09-06
SingaporeLink only
Payments only. Permitted to move money. Says nothing about investment services.
Singapore has NO standalone crypto register. Dealing in digital payment tokens is a regulated PAYMENT SERVICE, so a crypto firm appears as a Standard or Major Payment Institution whose licence includes that service. A listing proves a payments licence and anti-money-laundering supervision — it does NOT prove authorisation to advise on or deal in capital-markets products, which needs a separate licence.
MAS Financial Institutions Directory
Why we can or cannot copy it: Non-commercial status does NOT help here: MAS permits ONE copy on a SINGLE computer for PERSONAL non-commercial use. A public website is not personal, at any price. | "No Content, including without limitation the website design and layout, graphics, images, hyperlinks and information, may be reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way without the prior written permission of MAS, except that you may download one copy of any information provided in this Web Site onto a single computer for your own personal non-commercial use provided that you keep intact all accompanying copyright and other proprietary notices." — https://www.mas.gov.sg/terms-of-use, fetched 2026-09-06. The single-copy carve-out is personal and non-commercial and cannot cover a public site.
Checked by: WebFetch of the directory returned live static HTML with category counts. NOT verified: whether a token-specific filter exists, or the separate regime for firms serving only overseas customers. · 2026-09-06
South AfricaLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
Africa's most substantive crypto register. A provider is licensed as a FINANCIAL SERVICES PROVIDER — a conduct-of-business authorisation covering advice and intermediary services, with fit-and-proper requirements and mandatory reporting — and is ALSO supervised for anti-money-laundering. So a listing proves conduct authorisation plus AML supervision, but it is not prudential supervision and does not guarantee client assets. As at 31 March 2026: 533 applications received, 310 approved, 17 declined.
FSCA List of Regulated People and Entities — crypto asset service providers licensed as financial services providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: TWO CLAUSES, AND THE SECOND IS ABOUT THE REGISTER ITSELF: "No part of the site contents may be reproduced or transmitted or reused or be made available in any manner or any media, unless prior written consent has been obtained from the Financial Sector Conduct Authority's Legal and Policy Department." and "The Financial Sector Conduct Authority owns the copyright of this document. No part of the document may be reproduced or transmitted or reused or be made available in any manner or any media. The information in the list of registered entity may include personal information of regulated entities and persons." — https://www.fsca.co.za/Disclaimer, fetched 2026-09-06. 🪤 The second clause also asserts the list carries PERSONAL INFORMATION, which is a POPIA question on top of the copyright one.
Checked by: A guessed .aspx path 404'd; link-mining the 404 body recovered the live path, confirmed 200 with 'crypto asset service providers' named. · 2026-09-06
South KoreaLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
A report-and-acceptance regime, not a licence: a firm files a report with the Financial Intelligence Unit and it is accepted. Acceptance proves anti-money-laundering registration — a real-name bank arrangement and security certification — not authorisation to advise or to offer securities. Roughly 27 accepted as of December 2025, but the sub-categories differ materially and the number hides them.
KoFIU list of reported and accepted Virtual Asset Service Providers
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located. kofiu.go.kr answers (200, both the /eng and /kor homepages, fetched 2026-09-06) but publishes only "Copyright ⓒ KoFIU. All Rights Reserved." in the footer; the guessed copyright paths /eng/etc/copyright.do and /kor/etc/copyright.do BOTH return the site's Page-Not-Found body under HTTP 200, and no 공공누리 / KOGL open-government licence mark appears anywhere in either page's HTML. Korean public bodies usually carry a KOGL badge; its ABSENCE here is a real reading, not a failed search — but absence is not a prohibition either. The VASP list URL itself is still not located.
Checked by: curl and curl_cffi of kofiu.go.kr /eng and /kor; grepped both bodies for 공공누리, KOGL, 저작권 and 이용약관 — zero matches. 🪤 A 200 THAT IS A 404: both guessed copyright paths return the not-found page WITH A 200 STATUS, so a status-code probe would have banked them as pages that exist. · 2026-09-06
SwitzerlandLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
There is NO Swiss crypto licence and no VASP list. FINMA licenses by ACTIVITY, so a crypto firm appears — if at all — under a generic heading such as bank, securities firm, FinTech licence or DLT trading facility. The large majority of Swiss crypto operators are NOT on any FINMA list: they are anti-money-laundering supervised through membership of a self-regulatory organisation, and those member lists are published by the organisations, not by FINMA. A consumer who finds a firm absent from FINMA's register has learned almost nothing.
FINMA authorised institutions, individuals and products
Why we can or cannot copy it: "Downloading or copying of texts, illustrations, photos or any other data does not entail any transfer of rights on the content... Any reproduction requires the prior written consent of the copyright holder." — https://www.finma.ch/en/terms-and-conditions/, fetched 2026-08-21.
Checked by: WebSearch; WebFetch of the register index (confirmed xlsx/pdf downloads); curl + tag-strip of the terms page for the verbatim clause. · 2026-08-21
ThailandLink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
A genuine business authorisation under the Emergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses 2018, with capital, custody and conduct duties. But SIX categories exist and they certify different things — Exchange, Broker, Dealer, Investment Advisor, Fund Manager, Custodian. A Dealer licence is not permission to advise. Any consumer surface must show the category, not just 'SEC-licensed'.
SEC Thailand licensed digital asset business operators
Why we can or cannot copy it: No terms located. sec.or.th 403s to plain curl and answers curl_cffi impersonate=chrome124 with 200 (EN 1.34 MB, TH 923 KB, fetched 2026-09-06) — so the 2026-08-21 'search only' state is now an access we hold — but neither page exposes a terms, copyright, legal or policy link in its HTML, and the guessed /EN/Pages/Others/TermsAndConditions.aspx 404s. The licensed digital-asset-operator list URL is also still not located.
Checked by: curl 403 → curl_cffi chrome124 200 on both /EN and /TH homepages; grepped both for href terms/copyright/disclaimer/policy/legal — zero matches. · 2026-09-06
TRLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
READ THE SUB-LISTS OR MISLEAD. This is not one list but three: application processes, those operating, and those in liquidation. Rules were set in March 2025, but as of mid-2026 platforms serving Turkish persons remain under a TRANSITION regime and final operating licences have not been issued — roughly 58 firms remain in process. So a Turkish listing currently certifies "permitted to keep operating while its application is processed", NOT "licensed". A firm on the liquidation list is the opposite of a reassurance.
SPK — Kripto Varlık Hizmet Sağlayıcılar
Why we can or cannot copy it: Unchanged and re-affirmed: only a bare footer, "Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu Tüm hakları saklıdır." (All rights reserved), on https://spk.gov.tr/kurumlar/kripto-varlik-hizmet-saglayicilar. No reuse clause either way; not permission and not an explicit prohibition. No separate terms-of-use page was located.
Checked by: curl + tag-strip of the SPK crypto page confirmed the three sub-lists and the footer. · 2026-09-06
TWLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
REGIME CHANGING — today's list and next year's certify different things. The list in force records completion of anti-money-laundering registration only, under the previous self-regulatory model; it is not a licence. A Virtual Asset Service Act passed on 30 June 2026 replacing it with full licensing across seven categories, but as of the sources seen it had passed and was NOT yet in force. During the transition a firm may appear on the AML list while holding no licence under the new Act.
FSC list of VASPs that completed anti-money-laundering registration
Why we can or cannot copy it: Re-read 2026-09-06 under the arm's ACTUAL status, which the first pass got wrong: The Market Standard is FREE and takes no money from anyone it writes about. Its own /about page publishes this — "It is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier and nothing to buy" and "we have nothing to sell you". The earlier verdict reasoned about a commercial surface and there is not one. Quoting with the source identified is expressly inside fair use; the bar the terms name is bulk republication ON A COMMERCIAL SURFACE. 🪤 The weakest of the four — 'fair use' is a judgement, not a grant. Attribute prominently. (Previous verdict: "Material on the FSC website may be reproduced for non-profit use by an individual or family." and "Material authored by…)
Checked by: One WebSearch; no regulator page fetched. Statute, categories and timeline from secondary legal sources. · 2026-09-06
UANot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: One WebSearch; no primary regulator source fetched. · 2026-08-21
United Arab EmiratesLink only
Authorised. Permitted to provide named crypto-asset services, each granted separately.
Genuine activity-specific authorisation, not anti-money-laundering registration — 56 entries at time of reading, with granular activities (broker-dealer, custody, exchange, management and investment, issuance, lending, advisory). 🪤 TWO TRAPS. First, the register MIXES fully licensed firms with In-Principle Approval holders, and VARA states IPA holders "are strictly prohibited from initiating operations, conducting any virtual asset activities, or servicing clients until they have obtained their full VASP licence" — copying this table without the status column would tell consumers that firms VARA has forbidden to trade are authorised. Second, VARA covers Dubai mainland and free zones but EXCLUDES the DIFC, and Abu Dhabi's ADGM/FSRA is a wholly separate regulator, regime and register.
VARA Public Register (Dubai) — and, separately, the ADGM/FSRA Public Register (Abu Dhabi)
Why we can or cannot copy it: Non-commercial status does NOT help here: VARA permits copying for PERSONAL non-commercial use. Personal is narrower than non-commercial and we are not personal. | "You may not copy, modify, alter, publish, broadcast, distribute, sell or transfer any material on this website or the underlying software code whether in whole or in part, without our explicit permission. However, the contents of this website may be viewed, downloaded, printed or copied for your personal non-commercial use." — https://www.vara.ae/en/terms-of-use/, fetched 2026-08-21. The personal-non-commercial carve-out does not cover a public site.
Checked by: The widely-cited vara.ae/public-register is DEAD (404); the live path was recovered by link-mining the homepage. curl + tag-strip confirmed 56 live rows and the terms. · 2026-08-21
United KingdomLink only
Anti-money-laundering only. Supervised for money-laundering controls. NOT a licence to advise, to trade for you, or to hold your money.
Registration under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, for anti-money-laundering supervision. It is NOT authorisation to provide investment services, to advise, or to hold client assets — the UK has no MiCA equivalent in force. A firm can be on this register and still be doing nothing a UK regulator has approved beyond its AML controls.
FCA Cryptoasset firms register
Why we can or cannot copy it: "You must not reproduce or store any part of this site in any other website or include it in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission" and "You must not use data from this site to provide a data feed to any comparison table or any other website without our written permission." — https://www.fca.org.uk/legal, fetched 2026-08-21. 🪤 CAVEAT ADDED 2026-08-21: that clause binds "this site", and the REGISTER RUNS ON A DIFFERENT HOST (register.fca.org.uk) which has its own legal page at /s/legal-information. That page exists and is UNREAD — Cloudflare returned 403 to curl, 403 to a headless browser after a 14s challenge wait, and an empty DOM to a plain fetch. So the register host's terms are unread, not established as covered. We stay link-only either way, but the basis is thinner than it first appeared.
Paid route: FCA Register Extract Service, approx GBP 6,012 one-off / 7,219 monthly / 9,445 weekly plus supplier fees. Sec 2.16 permits resale only where the product's function is "exclusively" establishing regulated status; sec 1.12 EXCLUDES firm websites and the Warning List entirely — so the field this site most needs is not available at any price by that route.
Checked by: fetched fca.org.uk/legal; fetched the Register Extract Handbook PDF and read the extracted text directly; searched data.gov.uk for FCA cryptoasset datasets (none); retried 2026-08-21 against register.fca.org.uk/s/legal-information and the Warning List — both hard-403 to curl, headless browser and plain fetch. Reading them needs the stealth ladder. · 2026-08-21
United StatesLink only
Mixed regimes. More than one licence type sits behind this register.
There is no single US crypto authorisation. A FinCEN listing means only that the firm REGISTERED ITSELF as a money services business for anti-money-laundering purposes — FinCEN does not vet, licence or endorse it. Separately, most crypto firms need a money transmitter licence in EACH state, which covers payments conduct and not investment advice or custody. Securities activity is a third, separate register. A firm can appear in one and none of the others.
No single US register. FinCEN MSB Registrant Search (federal AML) · NMLS Consumer Access (state money transmitter licences) · FINRA BrokerCheck / SEC IAPD (securities)
Why we can or cannot copy it: 🚨 THIS ROW CANNOT CARRY ONE VERDICT AND SHOULD BE SPLIT INTO THREE. (1) FinCEN MSB registrant search — no reuse restriction appears anywhere on https://www.fincen.gov/site-policies-and-notices (fetched 2026-09-06; searched for 'copyright', 'reproduce', 'public domain', 'restrict' — none present), and the operative grant is statutory, not contractual: 17 U.S.C. § 105, "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government." That is a real basis and it makes the FinCEN component REUSABLE. (2) NMLS Consumer Access — EXPRESSLY LOOKUP-ONLY: "The data and information provided through NMLS Consumer Access shall be used ONLY in accordance with all other terms and conditions of this Agreement to assist you, your clients or your organization in determining whether to conduct or continue to conduct business with NMLS-registered persons or companies. All other uses are prohibited." — https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/Home.aspx/TermsOfUse, fetched 2026-09-06 (via curl_cffi; plain curl 403s). ⭐⭐ THE CLEANEST EXAMPLE IN THE WHOLE SET OF THE DISTINCTION RAY ASKED FOR: the one use we actually want — answer 'is this firm licensed' for a reader about to do business with it — is the one use NMLS names as permitted, and bulk republication is what 'all other uses' forbids. It also excludes any FCRA § 603(d) purpose outright. (3) FINRA BrokerCheck — UNREAD: finra.org/about/terms returns 403 to curl AND to curl_cffi chrome124, and brokercheck.finra.org is an 8.9 KB JS shell. Needs the Camoufox rung.
Checked by: WebFetch fincen.gov/msb-registrant-search ×2, both timed out at 60s. No primary evidence behind this row. · 2026-09-06
VGNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify.
Checked by: WebSearch only; no primary regulator source reached. · 2026-08-21
VietnamNot established
We have not established whether an official register of crypto-asset firms exists here, or what one would certify. We do hold a link to State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC), but that is a warnings and news page — not a register of licensed firms, and it cannot tell you whether a particular firm is licensed.
Checked by: One WebSearch; all results were news and law-firm commentary. No primary regulator source fetched. · 2026-08-21

What This Board Is For

If your country is marked we hold it, the guided check can narrow the register to the firms licensed to do the specific thing you are asking, where you are.

If it is marked link only, we send you to the authority’s own copy and tell you why we cannot do more than that. We would rather hand you a live link to somebody else’s register than a stale copy of it.

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