The MiCA registers
All five official EU crypto registers · source: ESMA · checked daily · last check recently
About these registers
Under MiCA (Regulation EU 2023/1114), ESMA publishes five registers: authorised crypto-asset service providers, issuers of e-money tokens (single-currency stablecoins), issuers of asset-referenced tokens, notified crypto-asset white papers, and non-compliant entities. This page mirrors all five, rewritten so anyone can read them, and re-checks ESMA's files every day.
How do I check if a crypto company is licensed?
Search the licensed companies tab. If it isn't there, check the warning list — regulators may have already flagged it.
Which stablecoins are legal in the EU?
Only e-money tokens from authorised issuers in the stablecoin tab — for example EURC and USDC (Circle), EURCV (Société Générale-FORGE), EURAU (AllUnity), EURI (Banking Circle), EURe (Monerium). Each issuer must be an e-money or credit institution.
Are the white papers approved by regulators?
No. White papers in the register have not been reviewed or approved by any authority; the issuer alone is responsible for their content. Listing is a notification, not an endorsement.
Why are there no ART issuers?
Asset-referenced tokens (tokens pegged to a basket of assets) face the strictest MiCA regime, and so far no issuer has been authorised anywhere in the EU. The tab will populate automatically the day the first one is.
How current is this data?
ESMA publishes updates weekly; we re-check the files every day. Ended licences stay on record with their end date.
What a MiCA authorisation actually means
MiCA is the EU's single rulebook for crypto. It replaced the patchwork of national registration regimes that ran until 2024, and since 30 December 2024 any firm providing crypto-asset services to EU clients needs a CASP authorisation from a national regulator — BaFin in Germany, the AMF in France, the Central Bank of Ireland, MFSA in Malta, and so on. ESMA does not license anyone itself; it publishes the consolidated register of what the national authorities have granted.
The authorisation is granular. A firm is approved for specific services from a list of ten, and it may only provide those. Custody, operating a trading platform, exchanging crypto for money, exchanging crypto for other crypto, executing orders, placing crypto-assets, receiving and transmitting orders, advice, portfolio management, and transfer services are each separately licensed. A company authorised only for custody cannot legally run an exchange. That is why every record here lists the exact permissions rather than a single label.
One authorisation covers the whole bloc. Once a national regulator approves a CASP, the firm can passport into every other member state by notification alone, which is why so many records show 28 or 29 countries of coverage. Choosing where to apply is therefore a strategic decision — supervisory culture, processing times, language of the file and local substance requirements all differ, and the licence travels regardless.
Stablecoins sit in a separate regime. An e-money token — a coin pegged to one currency — may only be issued by an authorised credit institution or e-money institution, which is why that register is short and bank-dominated. Asset-referenced tokens, backed by a basket, face the strictest regime of all, and no issuer has yet been authorised anywhere in the EU. White papers are notified to regulators, never approved by them: the issuer alone is responsible for what it says.
Grandfathering is ending. Firms operating under old national registrations were given transitional periods that vary by member state and expire through 2026, after which operating without a MiCA authorisation is unlawful. Any firm serving EU clients that does not appear in this register is either still inside a shrinking transitional window or outside the law.