Check Before You Commit
Four questions, then every firm licensed to do what you are asking, in the country you are actually in — with a link to each.
Where are you?
Not where the firm is — where you are. It decides which register covers you, and which firms may lawfully deal with you at all.
What This Is
A guided way into the same register the platform check searches. We hold all 323 firms licensed under the EU’s MiCA regime, and the register records which of them may serve each of 30 countries, and for which activities.
Those two facts are the whole tool, and neither is obvious from a company’s own website. A firm licensed in Malta may serve someone in Greece. A firm may be licensed to sell you crypto and not licensed to hold it afterwards — two separate permissions, and the difference is your money if the firm fails.
What It Deliberately Is Not
It is not a recommendation, a shortlist, a rating or a steer. We narrow a public register by facts you give us and print everything that matches, alphabetically, with no view attached to any of it. We are not authorised to tell you where to put your money and would not do it if we were.
It is also not a check on whether a firm is any good. Being licensed is a fact about a register, recorded on a date. Firms on registers have failed before, and the register is the beginning of the question rather than the end of it.
Where the Register Ends
ESMA’s register covers the European Economic Area. It does not cover the United Kingdom, which runs its own regime, and it does not cover the rest of the world. Where we cannot answer, this page says so and points at the body that can — we would rather hand you a live link to someone else’s register than a stale copy of it.