From 1 July 2026, only exchanges authorised under MiCA may keep serving clients in the EU and the wider EEA. Type the name or website of your exchange, choose your country, and see where it stands in the official ESMA register.
The checker reads a snapshot of the official ESMA register of authorised Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs). It is information, not advice: a name that is not found may still be a legitimate smaller provider, and brand names differ from the legal entity that actually holds the licence. When in doubt, confirm against the live register.
How to read the verdict.
There are four possible outcomes.
- Authorised. The provider holds a MiCA CASP licence in the ESMA register. A single authorisation passports across the whole EEA, so it may serve clients in any member state.
- Flagged. The platform is winding down its EU service or its licence application has stalled. Treat new deposits with caution and plan an exit.
- Not authorised. A well-known platform with no MiCA CASP licence in the register. After the transitional deadline in your country, it may not legally serve you.
- No match. The name was not found in this snapshot. It may be a smaller provider, a brand variant, or a different legal entity. Verify directly in the ESMA register.
Browse the authorised register.
Every entity below holds a MiCA CASP authorisation. Filter by name or by the country that issued the licence. Remember: the issuing country does not limit you, the licence works across the EEA.
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Why MiCA authorisation matters now.
The question stopped being theoretical. From July 2026, authorisation decides who can hold your account, what you can trade, and who sees your data.
Access ends, not just marketing.
After the transitional deadline, an unauthorised platform must stop onboarding and serving EU clients, not merely stop advertising. ESMA has confirmed there is no extension and asked unlicensed providers to wind down in an orderly way. An authorised exchange is the difference between an account that keeps working and one that freezes.
Authorisation brings real safeguards.
A MiCA licence is not a logo. It requires client-asset segregation, governance and custody standards, complaint handling, and a regulator that can act. Clients of unauthorised providers do not benefit from these protections, which matters most precisely when a platform gets into trouble.
It shapes what you can hold.
Authorised venues already enforce MiCA on the asset side. Non-compliant stablecoins such as USDT were delisted for EU users through 2025, and tokens with built-in anonymisation cannot be admitted to trading. Where you keep your account changes which assets stay available to you.
Authorised does not mean invisible to the tax authority.
From 2026, authorised CASPs collect and report client transaction data under DAC8, with the first reports filed in 2027. Choosing an unauthorised offshore venue is not a shield: the parallel OECD framework, CARF, captures non-EU operators serving EU clients. Authorisation tells you the reporting will be done properly, in your name.
The licence travels, so the home country is not a limit.
A CASP authorised in Malta, Ireland, or the Netherlands can passport across all thirty EEA markets. A provider licensed abroad is not worse than a domestic one. What matters is that the entity actually serving you is the licensed one, not a global affiliate sitting outside the perimeter.
Moving costs less before the deadline than after.
If your platform is not authorised, an orderly transfer to a licensed venue now is calmer than a forced wind-down later, when withdrawals queue and support slows. Pull a full transaction history first: you will need it for your national tax filing regardless of where you land.
Portugal runs the full transitional period to 1 July 2026, with the Bank of Portugal and the CMVM as the competent authorities. MiCA decides who may operate; it does not change how Portugal taxes your crypto. Those are two separate questions, and the second is the one I help with.
This tool is general information, not tax or legal advice, and reflects the ESMA register as synced on 28 June 2026. The register updates weekly. Confirm your own situation with me on a discovery call.