CASP (MiCA)
A crypto-asset service provider authorised under the EU MiCA regulation for custody, exchange or transfer of crypto-assets - mandatory for serving EU clients from 1 July 2026.
MiCA replaced the national-registration patchwork with one EU licence: the CASP. Authorised by a national regulator, listed in the ESMA register, passportable EEA-wide. The live count and the country clusters are below.
MiCA also created the EMT (e-money token) for stablecoins - only credit institutions and EMIs may issue them, with redemption at par. That is what makes European euro stablecoins (EURCV, EURe, EURQ...) a supervised alternative to USDC/USDT.
Primary source: Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) · ESMA - Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation
In the verified data
- The ESMA register lists 349 authorised CASPs in the EEA (as of 2026-09-18); the largest clusters are Germany (91), France (35), the Netherlands (29), Cyprus (25), Malta (22).
- 55 of them were authorised after 1 July 2026, the date the last national transitional periods ended - who is actually getting licensed.
- Only 30 of those register CASPs have a verified profile in this catalogue: many are retail exchanges, brokers or banks distributing crypto to their own customers, not infrastructure you can build on - a register count is not a supplier market.
Recomputed from the catalogue and the official EBA, ESMA and FCA registers on every build — how we verify.
Questions to ask a provider
- Which MiCA services are you authorised for - custody, exchange, transfer - by which authority and since when?
- Are you authorised under MiCA itself, rather than relying on a national registration that predates it?
- How do you meet the travel rule for transfers to and from other providers?
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Related terms
EMT (e-money token / euro stablecoin) · EMI licence (e-money institution)