MiCA-licensed exchanges: the ESMA register, brand by brand

• • One licence, whole EEA. An authorised provider may passport across all member states; the home regulator (the authority column) supervises it.
• • Conduct rules. Client crypto-assets must be segregated from the firm's own; the firm is liable for crypto-assets lost through an incident attributable to it; it must run a complaints procedure and treat clients fairly.
• • No compensation scheme. Investor-compensation funds such as Cyprus's ICF cover MiFID instruments, not crypto-assets. If a licensed provider fails, there is no statutory backstop for your coins.
• • Not for CFDs. A leveraged bitcoin CFD at a broker is a MiFID instrument; the broker is an investment firm and this list does not apply. Our crypto CFDs vs owning crypto explainer covers the difference.
• • Not the UK. UK residents are outside MiCA; the FCA's cryptoasset register and promotions rules apply instead.

1. 1. On the exchange's EU site, find the legal entity in the footer or terms: the company name, not the brand.
2. 2. Search that exact name in ESMA's register or on the home regulator's own register. Match the name and the services listed against what you are being offered.
3. 3. If the entity on the terms is outside the EEA (Seychelles, BVI, Cayman, Dubai), MiCA protections do not apply to you, whatever the brand's other entities hold.

Check the permission for the service you want

A register entry is not a blanket permission for every product. Match the company and website, check whether authorisation has ended, then read the services on that entry. The letters in our table expand below; confirm the regulator's current wording before relying on a match.

A · Custody

Custody and administration of crypto-assets on behalf of clients

B · Trading platform

Operation of a trading platform for crypto-assets

C · Buy/sell for cash

Exchange of crypto-assets for funds

D · Crypto-to-crypto

Exchange of crypto-assets for other crypto-assets

E · Execution

Execution of orders for crypto-assets on behalf of clients

F · Placing

Placing of crypto-assets

G · Order routing

Reception and transmission of orders for crypto-assets

H · Advice

Providing advice on crypto-assets

I · Portfolio mgmt

Portfolio management on crypto-assets

J · Transfers

Transfer services for crypto-assets on behalf of clients

For example, buying crypto for euros and leaving it in the firm's custody involves different services. A custody entry alone does not establish permission to run an exchange. Read any restrictions, the home authority's entry and the territorial information; do not infer services from a familiar brand name.

Search the full register by company or brand, then cross-check the official ESMA source. If the names differ, ask the exchange for its contracting entity before sending funds.

Explainer edited 19 September 2026. The dataset read date remains 20 Oct 2026; this content edit is not a new register download.

Common questions

• • Source: ESMA's register of crypto-asset service providers under Article 109 of MiCA, published as a CSV and compiled from national competent authorities' notifications. Reproduced with acknowledgement of ESMA as the source; this copy reflects ESMA's file dated 19 Oct 2026 and is re-read every Tuesday.
• • Service letters are our normalisation of ESMA's free-text services column into MiCA's ten categories; the raw wording is preserved in the dataset.
• • Brand matching uses the legal entity, commercial name and website in ESMA's file. A brand marked absent may be authorised under an entity name we did not recognise; tell us at hello@clarytrade.com and we will correct it publicly.
• • Informational only, not financial advice. No exchange on this page pays us for the listing; we hold no affiliate relationship with any MiCA-licensed exchange at the time of writing.