Where we advise
Which regime you sit under decides what you can do.
And in the EU, which member state you authorise in decides how fast you get there. A CASP authorisation passports to all 27 states, so the choice of home regulator is a commercial decision, not an administrative one.
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Which member state should you authorise in?
A MiCA authorisation passports to all 27 states, so the rulebook is identical everywhere. What differs is regulator familiarity, the substance expected, the language the process runs in, cost, and how the permission reads to your customers. It is a commercial decision.
Compare member statesWhat matters now
Live obligations by jurisdiction.
| Jurisdiction | Regime | Regulator | What matters now | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Cryptoasset regime | Financial Conduct Authority | A five-month authorisation window with a binary outcome, and it reaches firms that are not established here at all. | TIER 1 |
| Ireland | MiCA | Central Bank of Ireland | One authorisation, twenty-seven markets. Which is why the choice of member state is a commercial decision, not an administrative one. | TIER 1 |
| United Arab Emirates | VARA · ADGM · DIFC · federal CMA | Four regulators | Four regulators, activity-by-activity licensing, and a federal re-licensing exercise with a closing date. | TIER 1 |
| Japan | PSA → FIEA | JFSA · JVCEA | Crypto is moving from one statutory regime to another, and the tax treatment is moving with it. | TIER 1 |
| Luxembourg | MiCA | CSSF | A principal EU authorisation hub, and a common answer to the member-state question. | TIER 2 |
| Malta | MiCA | MFSA | First mover on crypto regulation, and the member state with the longest institutional memory of it. | TIER 2 |
| Netherlands | MiCA | AFM · DNB | A demanding regulator, and an authorisation that carries weight with counterparties because of it. | TIER 2 |
| Germany | MiCA | BaFin | The largest single market in the EU, with a regulator that expects German-language process and real local substance. | TIER 2 |
| United States | GENIUS Act · state money transmission | OCC · FinCEN · state regulators | A federal stablecoin regime with recurring statutory reporting, on top of the most fragmented state licensing map in the world. | TIER 2 |
How deep we go
Three tiers, stated on the page.
This is a limitation made visible rather than hidden. A reader who sees “monitored weekly, last reviewed 11 Aug 2026” trusts the page more than one making an implicit claim to omniscience.
Monitored weekly
Where we are physically present and actively selling. Sources are checked every week and the review date on each page proves it.
Ireland & the EU · United Kingdom · United Arab Emirates · Japan
Tracked monthly
Regimes we advise on regularly and check on a monthly cycle.
Luxembourg · Malta · Netherlands · Germany · United States · Singapore · Hong Kong · Switzerland · Cayman & BVI
Reference — reviewed quarterly
Overviews maintained for comparison and structuring work. Labelled as reference so nobody mistakes them for a monitored position.
France · Cyprus · Lithuania · Poland · Spain · Italy · Liechtenstein · Gibraltar · Jersey, Guernsey & IoM · Qatar · Bahrain · Saudi Arabia · Kazakhstan · South Korea · Australia · Canada · Brazil · El Salvador · Bermuda · Bahamas · Panama · Marshall Islands · Seychelles
Not sure which regime binds you?
Tell us where you are established, where your customers are, and what you hold. That is usually enough to say which regulators have a claim on you — and which deadlines you have already missed.