About The Crypto Register
Independent editorial team tracking EU MiCA crypto licences. Netherlands-based. No commercial ties to any listed exchange. Display advertising only.
What is The Crypto Register?
The Crypto Register is an independent editorial project that tracks which crypto exchanges hold a valid MiCA authorisation in the European Union. It launched in early 2026 - ahead of the MiCA enforcement deadline of - to give European retail investors a plain-language, primary-source-backed answer to a simple question: is my exchange licensed?
The site mirrors the ESMA Register of Crypto-Asset Service Providers, cross-verified weekly against GLEIF and national competent authority sources.
Who runs this project?
The Crypto Register is produced by a small independent editorial team based in the Netherlands. We have no commercial relationship, ownership interest, or affiliation with any listed exchange or any crypto industry body. We do not accept exchange-supplied data. We do not sell editorial coverage. Advertising on the site is display advertising served by Google AdSense; it has no influence on which exchanges we cover or how we assess them.
The project is independent of ESMA, the European Commission, and all national competent authorities. We are not a regulator and do not make regulatory determinations - we report what primary regulatory sources state.
How is the data sourced and verified?
Every fact on every page links to its primary source. Our core inputs are the ESMA MiCA register CSV, GLEIF entity records, and the public registers of EEA national competent authorities (BaFin, AFM, MFSA, CSSF, FMA, AMF, CySEC, CBI). Data is rebuilt weekly using an automated two-vendor adversarial validation pipeline. See the full methodology page for detail.
Funding model
The site is supported by display advertising via Google AdSense. No advertiser has any influence over editorial content, coverage decisions, or verdict outcomes. The site does not accept sponsored content, paid listings, native advertising, or affiliate commissions from any exchange.
Editorial standards and corrections policy
Every factual claim must be supported by at least two independent primary sources (regulator register, regulator press notice, issuer legal page, or GLEIF). Exchange-supplied marketing materials do not qualify as primary sources and are not used.
Errors are corrected in the next weekly rebuild, normally within 48 hours of a primary-source-backed correction being submitted. Correction requests go to our contact page. The correction is logged internally with the date of change, the specific field corrected, and the primary source used.
This site does not publish unverified allegations against any exchange. Public consumer warnings and enforcement actions from national competent authorities are reported only when sourced directly from the relevant authority's official publication.
Contact
Corrections, data errors, and press enquiries: contact page. We read every submission.