Is this platform actually registered?
Every regulator below publishes something, and most people never look because they do not know where it is. These are the official pages, one per country, straight to the regulator's own search. We hold no opinion about any firm you find there — and we are equally clear about the countries where the honest answer is that you cannot check at all.
Read this before you use any of it
A register entry proves one thing: the firm is registered to do what it says it does. It is not a safety rating. It says nothing about whether the company is solvent, whether your coins are segregated, or whether it will still be paying out next month — and collapsed exchanges have held licences in several countries at once. Treat a missing entry as a reason to stop, and a present entry as one box ticked out of many. The rest of the boxes are in the questionnaire.
What a register actually is, country by country
"Check the register" sounds like one thing. It is five, and in three countries here it is nothing at all.
Only the first row is a register in the sense people assume — a box you type a company name into. The rest is reading, downloading or, at the bottom, discovering that the question cannot be answered where you live. That last row is not a gap in our research; it is the finding.
See the numbers as a table
| Item | Entries |
|---|---|
| A register you can search | 10 |
| A list you can read | 6 |
| A file to download | 3 |
| A PDF, now and then | 3 |
| Nothing — cannot check | 3 |
Across the European Union
One register for the whole bloc. It matters more than a national one, because a firm licensed in any member state may serve customers in all of them.
Interim MiCA register of authorised crypto-asset service providers
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
- What it covers
- Every firm authorised under MiCA by any national regulator in the EU and EEA, together with the countries each one is allowed to serve. Sister files list token issuers, published white papers and entities flagged as non-compliant.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- This is a set of CSV files on a landing page, not a search box — you download the file and search it yourself. ESMA has said it will move the register into a proper system, so the download links may change. The national regulator reports entries to ESMA, which takes time, so a firm authorised last week may not be in this week's file.
Africa
Nigeria
Country guide →Nigeria registers providers but publishes no consolidated list, and the distinction between approval-in-principle and full registration is routinely blurred in marketing.
Circulars — admissions are announced, not listed
Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC)
- What it covers
- Digital asset exchanges, offering platforms, custodians and intermediaries, which must register before operating. Virtual assets are securities under the 2025 Act.
- What it does not prove
- Most firms named in these circulars hold an approval-in-principle, which the regulator states in writing is not a final licence and remains conditional. It is permission to operate inside a supervised sandbox — not evidence that your coins are safe or that anyone will compensate you.
- Worth knowing
- There is no consolidated list of registered digital asset firms. Admissions are announced in batches of circulars, so checking means reading through them. The regulator's own registered fintech operators page lists two firms and has not been updated since May 2025 — it is badly out of date and should not be read as the current picture.
Find a registered operator
Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC)
- What it covers
- The directory of registered capital market operators — brokers, fund managers, registrars and similar.
- What it does not prove
- It has no digital asset category at all, so a crypto platform will not be found here even when it is properly registered. Use it for the broker or adviser behind an offer, not for the exchange.
- Worth knowing
- Included because it is the regulator's only searchable directory, and because a reader who does not know what it covers will draw the wrong conclusion from an empty result.
South Africa
Country guide →Crypto firms are licensed as financial services providers, so they sit inside the general register rather than a crypto-specific one.
Financial services provider search
Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)
- What it covers
- Crypto is a financial product in South Africa, so firms advising on or arranging crypto deals need a financial services provider licence and appear in the general register with a crypto assets category.
- What it does not prove
- This is a market-conduct licence over advice and intermediation. The regulator has not vetted the platform's technology, does not hold its reserves and does not guarantee your crypto.
- Worth knowing
- There is no crypto-only register — search the firm by name and read the categories on its result. The regulator also publishes a periodic list of licensed crypto providers as a dated PDF under its news page; 310 of 533 applications had been approved as at 31 March 2026.
Latest news — periodic list of authorised crypto providers
Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)
- What it covers
- The regulator publishes an updated list of licensed crypto asset service providers from time to time, as a dated document announced here.
- What it does not prove
- Same licence, same limits — conduct supervision, not a guarantee.
- Worth knowing
- Each edition has its own address, so there is no permanent link to the current one. Look for the newest "authorised CASPs" item rather than trusting a copy found elsewhere.
Asia
India
Country guide →India requires registration but publishes no list. This is the country on this site where a reader genuinely cannot check, and it is worth knowing that rather than guessing.
No public register
Financial Intelligence Unit — India (FIU-IND)
- What it covers
- Anyone exchanging, transferring or holding virtual digital assets for Indian users must register as a reporting entity under anti-money-laundering law. The duty follows the activity, so offshore platforms are in scope.
- What it does not prove
- This is an anti-money-laundering registration, not a licence to run a sound business: it says nothing about solvency, how client assets are held, or whether anyone will compensate you if the firm fails.
- Worth knowing
- There is no public list, search form or verification page, and the government has confirmed as much in parliament. The only entity-level list ever published was an annexe to a parliamentary answer. Platforms have been blocked and then later registered, so even a point-in-time list would not settle the question.
Indonesia
Country guide →One official list, published as a dated PDF rather than a database — and an old regulator's page that still exists and now shows nothing, which is the trap to avoid.
Whitelist of digital financial asset trading providers
Financial Services Authority (OJK)
- What it covers
- Licensed and provisionally registered crypto trading providers, and the exchange, clearing and custody operators behind them.
- What it does not prove
- Being on the whitelist means the activity is licensed or provisionally registered. It is not an endorsement of any listed asset and no guarantee that customer funds are safe. Provisional status in particular is transitional, not a full licence.
- Worth knowing
- Published as a dated PDF reissued every few weeks, not a database — open the index page and take the newest edition. Supervision moved from the trade ministry's commodity agency to OJK in January 2025; the old agency's crypto page still exists and now shows an empty table, which would tell a reader that nobody is registered in Indonesia. Do not use it.
Philippines
Country guide →The central bank publishes a list, but has not been issuing new licences since 2022, so a platform can be absent simply because it was never able to apply.
Directories and lists — supervised virtual asset service providers
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
- What it covers
- Firms holding a central bank licence to exchange, transfer or safekeep virtual assets as a business in the Philippines.
- What it does not prove
- The licence covers money-laundering and payments conduct. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not insure your holdings, and it does not cover offering crypto assets that are securities — that needs the securities regulator.
- Worth knowing
- The list is a PDF inside the directories page. The central bank stopped accepting new applications in 2022 and extended that freeze in 2025 with no end date, so a platform can be absent simply because it was never allowed to apply. The securities regulator added its own separate regime in 2025 and publishes no list of its own.
Vietnam
Country guide →The law recognises crypto assets and a licensing pilot is open, but no provider has been licensed yet — so there is nothing to check, and nobody can truthfully claim to be licensed here.
No register — no licence has been granted
Ministry of Finance, through the State Securities Commission (MoF / SSC)
- What it covers
- Once licences are issued: organisations running a crypto-asset trading market under the five-year pilot, which carries a charter capital requirement in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- What it does not prove
- Not applicable yet. The practical point runs the other way: any platform claiming to be licensed in Vietnam, or licensed "in progress", has nothing official to point at.
- Worth knowing
- Applications opened in January 2026 and several were shortlisted, but no exchange had been licensed as of October 2026. Meanwhile penalties for trading through an unlicensed provider took effect in September 2026 — so there is a gap in which residents face a fine for using platforms while no licensed alternative exists.
Europe
Germany
Country guide →Two places, and the order matters: a firm licensed in another EU state may serve German clients lawfully and will appear only in the EU-wide register, not in BaFin's own database.
Interim MiCA register
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
- What it covers
- Firms authorised anywhere in the EU, including those licensed in Malta, Ireland or Cyprus that serve German customers under a passport.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- Start here rather than with BaFin. A firm passported into Germany is operating lawfully and will not appear in BaFin's own database at all.
Company database
Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
- What it covers
- Firms BaFin itself authorised — banks, securities and payment institutions, and crypto-asset service providers holding German MiCA authorisation.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- Use this when a platform claims German authorisation specifically. Germany closed its transitional regime on 31 December 2025, earlier than the EU-wide ceiling of 1 July 2026.
Poland
Country guide →Poland has no national register to check, because it never passed its MiCA law. Everything a Polish reader can verify sits at EU level.
Interim MiCA register
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
- What it covers
- Firms authorised in another member state and passported into Poland — which, with no Polish law in force, is the only lawful way to serve Polish customers.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- No entity has Poland as its home state in this register. Poland appears only as a country that firms licensed elsewhere are allowed to serve.
Public warning list
Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)
- What it covers
- Entities the regulator has reported to prosecutors or that are subject to certain criminal proceedings.
- What it does not prove
- Absence from a warning list proves nothing whatsoever — it is a list of entities already caught, not a list of safe ones. The list is published in Polish only.
- Worth knowing
- The old virtual-currency activity register kept by the tax administration is archived and no longer permits anything. KNF remains the competent authority only for e-money token issuers, not for exchanges.
Switzerland
Country guide →Two separate lookups. Most Swiss crypto firms are not FINMA-licensed at all — they are supervised for money laundering through a self-regulatory organisation, which is a different and much lighter thing.
Authorised institutions, individuals and products
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
- What it covers
- Banks, securities firms, asset managers and holders of the FinTech licence — the category crypto firms taking customer deposits fall into.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- A FinTech licence explicitly carries no deposit insurance, and the Swiss scheme that covers CHF 100,000 at a licensed bank has never covered crypto assets. MiCA does not apply in Switzerland, so an EU authorisation means nothing here.
Self-regulatory organisation member search
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
- What it covers
- Financial intermediaries supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes through a recognised self-regulatory organisation, which is how most Swiss crypto exchange and custody businesses are captured.
- What it does not prove
- SRO membership means the firm is checked for money-laundering controls and nothing else — no capital requirement, no prudential supervision, no protection of client funds.
- Worth knowing
- Most Swiss crypto firms appear here and not in the licence database. FINMA's own consumer page points readers only at the licence database, so following that advice alone will make an AML-supervised firm look unregistered.
Turkey
Country guide →The published list is explicitly a temporary one. The regulator states on the page itself that appearing on it does not mean a platform has been authorised.
List of crypto asset service providers in operation (temporary list)
Capital Markets Board of Türkiye (CMB / SPK)
- What it covers
- Platforms that declared under the transitional provision of the Capital Markets Law that they would continue operating, plus firms that applied for custody authorisation.
- What it does not prove
- The regulator states on the page itself that inclusion does not mean the entity has been authorised. Firms have moved straight from this list to the liquidation list.
- Worth knowing
- A plain HTML table, not a database, with no last-updated stamp. There are companion lists of firms in liquidation and of applications that were dropped — worth reading before trusting the main one.
United Kingdom
Country guide →One register, and one distinction that trips people up: UK crypto firms are registered for money-laundering supervision, not authorised the way a bank or a broker is.
Financial Services Register — cryptoasset firms
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- What it covers
- UK cryptoasset exchange providers, crypto ATM operators and custodian wallet providers, which must register before doing business.
- What it does not prove
- The FCA says in terms that registration is not an endorsement and firms must not present it as one. It covers money-laundering controls only. Crypto is outside the UK compensation scheme and outside the ombudsman for most activities, so a registered firm's failure leaves no UK compensation route.
- Worth knowing
- Registration under money-laundering rules is not the same as full authorisation. A separate authorisation regime is being built and is expected to take effect in 2027; until then essentially every UK crypto firm is registered only.
North America
Canada
Country guide →Two different things to check, and they answer different questions: permission to offer crypto trading to Canadians, and a separate anti-money-laundering registration that confers no permission at all.
Crypto platforms authorised to do business with Canadians
Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA)
- What it covers
- Crypto trading platforms registered as dealers or holding decisions that let them offer crypto trading to Canadian residents.
- What it does not prove
- A licence covers conduct and governance. It is not a guarantee of solvency, it does not vet the assets the platform lists, and crypto holdings sit outside the deposit-guarantee and investor-compensation schemes that cover bank and brokerage accounts.
- Worth knowing
- Authorisation is often limited to named provinces and carries conditions, so read the linked decision rather than just the name. Some decisions on the page have expired. A static list, not a search.
Money services business registry
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
- What it covers
- Domestic and foreign money services businesses dealing in virtual currency, which must register for anti-money-laundering purposes.
- What it does not prove
- FINTRAC states it in its own words: registration does not mean it endorses or licenses the business, and it issues no licences or certificates.
- Worth knowing
- The difference in one line: the CSA list is permission to trade crypto with Canadians, this is a filing obligation that confers no permission at all.
Banned crypto platforms
Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA)
- What it covers
- Platforms barred from doing business with Canadians.
- What it does not prove
- A short list of firms already acted against. Absence from it means nothing.
- Worth knowing
- The page carries two last-updated dates that contradict each other.
United States
Country guide →There is no single federal list. Crypto platforms are licensed state by state, so the practical check is a state licence lookup, with two federal and one New York source behind it.
NMLS Consumer Access
State financial regulators, through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS)
- What it covers
- Firms holding a state money transmitter licence, which is the licence most US crypto exchange and custody businesses actually need, state by state.
- What it does not prove
- A licence is per-state and covers money transmission conduct. It says nothing about whether the platform's products are lawful securities or derivatives offerings, nor about solvency or how your coins are held.
- Worth knowing
- A licence in one state is not a licence in yours — check your own state. This is the system of record used by state regulators rather than a government domain of its own.
Money services business registrant search
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, US Department of the Treasury (FinCEN)
- What it covers
- Money services businesses registered under federal anti-money-laundering law. Crypto exchangers count as money transmitters and must appear.
- What it does not prove
- Registration here is self-filed and not checked. FinCEN publishes what the firm submitted, does not licence anyone and does not verify the contents.
- Worth knowing
- Filings take weeks to appear and lapsed registrations are deleted once a year, so absence can mean expired rather than never registered. Crypto firms appear as money transmitters, not under any crypto category.
Virtual currency businesses — regulated entities
New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)
- What it covers
- Firms holding a BitLicense, money transmitter licence or limited purpose trust charter for virtual currency activity involving New York or a New York resident.
- What it does not prove
- New York only, and a BitLicense is not federal approval. It does not mean the regulator has approved any particular coin the platform lists.
- Worth knowing
- A static table on the page itself. Licences are surrendered as well as granted, so read it fresh rather than relying on an article about it.
South America
Argentina
Country guide →Argentina has one of the clearest set-ups on this site: a single searchable register, and operating without being in it is prohibited.
Register of virtual asset service providers (PSAV)
National Securities Commission (CNV)
- What it covers
- Argentine individuals and companies, and foreign firms with a local presence or targeting Argentine residents, that exchange, transfer, hold or deal in virtual assets. Operating without being registered is prohibited.
- What it does not prove
- Registration is permission to operate and brings reporting and net-worth duties. It is not product approval and not a solvency guarantee — the regulator says its own documents have been neither examined nor approved by it.
- Worth knowing
- A real search form, by name, registration number or tax ID. The rules were substantially rewritten in October 2026, including minimum capital and a ban on mixing services, so requirements a platform met last year may no longer be enough.
Brazil
Country guide →The authorisation regime started in February 2026 and the application window has only just closed, so no list of authorised providers exists yet. Absence from a list currently proves nothing here.
No list published yet
Central Bank of Brazil (BCB)
- What it covers
- Once licensing begins: companies providing virtual asset exchange, transfer, custody or intermediation in Brazil, which need central bank authorisation to operate.
- What it does not prove
- When the list appears, authorisation will mean prudential and anti-money-laundering licensing of the company — not approval of any crypto asset, and not protection of customer funds.
- Worth knowing
- The regime took effect on 2 February 2026 and existing providers had 270 days to apply. They may keep operating while their application is considered, so a platform being absent from any list right now tells you nothing at all. This entry is the one most likely to be out of date first.
Your country is not here yet
We add a register when we have checked it ourselves and can say what it covers. Until then, the pattern holds everywhere: find your national financial regulator's own website, look for a register or list of licensed firms, and search the company name rather than the brand on the app.