ESMA publishes the Interim MiCA Register — the consolidated list of authorized CASPs, authorized EMT/ART issuers, white papers and non-compliant entities, aggregated from national competent authorities. It is public, updated weekly, and it is the authoritative answer to “is this company actually licensed?”
What the numbers show
As of July 2026 the register lists roughly 276 active authorized CASPs. Custody is the most widely held authorization (~178 providers), followed by transfer services (~164) and exchange of crypto-assets for funds (~142). Only 17 providers hold a trading-platform authorization — the long tail of the market is brokers and ramps, not exchanges in the traditional sense. Malta, France and the Netherlands lead by count of full-ramp providers.
Why the register matters operationally
Under AML customer-due-diligence duties, a CASP dealing with another CASP must verify its counterparty. The register is the positive confirmation source — and the non-compliant entities list is the negative screen. Both change: authorizations are granted, withdrawn, and entities get flagged.
We keep a live snapshot of the register — browsable by country and by provider — and a free counterparty checker that screens a name against the authorized-CASP, EMT-issuer and non-compliant lists in one query, with an optional alert when a counterparty’s status changes.
Source: ESMA Interim MiCA Register (live CSV publications). Figures move weekly — the linked pages always show the current state.