MiCA · CASP licence status · sourced 2026-08-09
Which crypto exchanges are MiCA-licensed in the EU?
8 of 13covered exchanges hold a verified MiCAR licence
sourced from national regulators — AFM · Central Bank of Ireland · CSSF · FMA · MFSA — and first-party venue announcements
Bybit EU GmbH
Status
Licensed
Regulator
FMA (Austria) · 2025-05-28
A separate Bybit Payments GmbH additionally received an e-money-institution licence on 2026-08-04 — unrelated to the CASP licence.
OKX Europe Ltd
Status
Licensed
Regulator
MFSA (Malta) · 2025-01-27
One of the first full MiCA CASP authorisations issued in the EU; used since for EEA passporting.
Foris DAX MT Limited
Status
Licensed
Regulator
MFSA (Malta) · 2025-01-27
EEA passporting effective from 2025-02-12.
Payward Europe Solutions Limited (trading as "Kraken")
Status
Licensed
Regulator
Central Bank of Ireland · 2025-06-25
Passporting confirmed across all 30 EEA states, incl. a listing in the AMF France whitelist.
Coinbase Luxembourg S.A.
Status
Licensed
Regulator
CSSF (Luxembourg) · 2025-06-20
Coinbase's own blog post states the same facts; its site returned 403 to a direct check, so the AMF France whitelist is cited as the primary source.
Bitpanda GmbH
Status
Licensed
Regulator
FMA (Austria) · 2025-04-09
The Bitpanda group's third MiCA licence, after Germany and Malta.
Bitvavo B.V.
Status
Licensed
Regulator
AFM (Netherlands) · 2025-06-27
Covers custody and administration of crypto-assets, operation of a trading platform, and transfer services; passportable across the 30 EEA states. DNB-registered since 2020.
Bitstamp (Luxembourg entity, licence N00000003)
Status
Licensed
Regulator
CSSF (Luxembourg) · 2025-05-16
Covers trading-platform operation, execution of orders on behalf of clients and custody, across the EEA. Owned by Robinhood Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOD) since 2025-06-02; separately FCA-registered in the UK (Bitstamp UK Limited, June 2023, FRN 978690).
KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH
Status
Licensed — operations restricted
Regulator
FMA (Austria) · 2025-11-27
CASP licence granted 2025-11-27; the FMA barred new business on 2026-02-18 over missing AML key functions. The new-business ban was lifted 2026-05-18, but the FMA states commencement of business operations remains prohibited.
Bitget EU
Status
Application pending
Regulator
FMA (Austria) · 2026-06-17
Per Bitget's own support article, Bitget EU has applied for a MiCAR licence with the FMA; the outcome is pending. No licence appears in the ESMA CASP register as of 2026-07-31.
Gemini (Malta legal entity not named first-party)
Status
Licensed, then withdrew from the EEA
Regulator
MFSA (Malta) · 2025-08-20
MiCA licence confirmed first-party via Gemini's own blog (2025-08-20). Gemini then voluntarily withdrew from the EEA: accounts became withdrawal-only from 2026-03-05, EEA closure 2026-04-06 — those dates rest on multiple matching secondary sources (Finance Magnates, Yahoo Finance/SEC filing, Coinspeaker); the Gemini support page itself returned 403 to a direct check. A restructuring per an SEC filing, not a regulatory action.
Status
Not verified by us
Regulator
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Coindesk (2026-06-26) cites a Binance notice to EU users; no MiCAR licence appears in the ESMA CASP register as of 2026-07-31. Binance withdrew its Greek MiCAR application on 2026-06-24, stopped services in France/Poland/Italy/Spain from 2026-07-01, and has said it will apply in a different member state — but no first-party Binance statement confirming or denying licensed status could be found.
Status
Not verified by us
Regulator
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The Dutch AFM states directly (2025-09-24): "MEXC does not have a license and therefore illegally offers crypto-asset services in the Netherlands." No MiCAR licence appears in the ESMA CASP register.
Every status here is either the venue’s own first-party announcement or a national regulator’s own register/notice — or, where neither could be reached directly, clearly marked “secondary”. A venue we could not verify either way is listed as not verified by us — never silently dropped from the list.
What MiCA licensing means
The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) requires any firm offering crypto-asset services to EU customers to hold a Crypto-Asset-Service-Provider (CASP) licence from an EU national regulator. A national transitional period let already-active exchanges keep operating under their old national registration while their MiCAR application was pending — that grace period has since run out in every member state, so a venue without a granted CASP licence today is, in principle, not licensed to serve EU customers.
A granted licence is passportable across all EEA states from a single home regulator — which is why the entries above name the actual licensed legal entity and its home regulator, not just the trading brand. A licence can also be restricted (as with KuCoin, where the FMA barred commencement of operations despite a granted licence) or voluntarily given up (as with Gemini’s EEA withdrawal) — licensed is a status, not a permanent guarantee.
This is a sourced status list, not legal advice — check the regulator’s own register before you decide.
All venues: /exchanges · Reliability methodology: /exchanges/methodology
Not investment advice. Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR. Reliability Scores are information, not recommendations: every negative datapoint is dated and sourced, the methodology is public, and no exchange can pay to change a score.