What is MiCA?

MiCA is the European rulebook for crypto assets and the firms that offer services on them. Before it, each member state ran its own registration, so a provider could hold a licence in a single country and none in another. Under MiCA, a crypto asset service provider is authorised and listed on a public register, and the register shows which national authority granted it. That structure shows in practice across the providers here: Bitcoin Store appears on HANFA (Croatian Financial Services Agency) MiCA authorised, ESMA register of crypto asset service providers (CASPS), MiCA and Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA), which pairs the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) with the ESMA register of crypto asset service providers. CoinGate lists MiCA (EU Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation), Payment Institution License and Bank of Lithuania (LSC), including a payment institution licence and the Bank of Lithuania. conio lists Consob (with approval of the Bank of Italy), listed in the ESMA MiCA CASP public register and Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB), naming the Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB) with approval of the Bank of Italy, and bit.plus lists Česká národní banka (Czech National Bank), under Article 63 Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) and Czech National Bank (CNB) under the Czech National Bank. Bitstamp carries the widest mix on HodlCue, with MiCA CASP authorisation (EU), Payment institution (PI) authorisation (EU) and MiFID authorisation (EU) including MiCA, MiFID, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.