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Every crypto licence, on one map.

Capital, timelines, cost, substance and passporting, compared side by side across every regime we track. Click a marker to pull its numbers. Independent: we set up no one, so the comparison has no agenda.

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13 jurisdictions tracked

156 sourced data points

12 dimensions each

2026-07-01 last verified

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Coverage

The regimes we track, on one map.

13 JURISDICTIONS · 12 FIELDS EACH

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Methodology

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LicenceMap is compiled by the group chief executive of a digital assets and payments group operating across the UK, EU, US and Latin America, with senior, direct accountability to regulators in five jurisdictions, including the FCA, Banco de Portugal, the Bank of Lithuania and Mexico's CNBV. He has taken VASP and CASP regimes through the MiCA transition, overseen the licensing, purchase and sale of regulated entities, and holds board-level ownership of regulator-grade wind-down planning. The comparisons here are built by someone who sits across the table from these regulators, not someone who has only read their handbooks.

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Dated on every cell

Each data point carries a "last verified" date and its source reference, visibly.

Updated when regulators move

Entries are re-verified and re-dated as regimes change; subscribers get alerted.

Honest about estimates

Regulator fees are sourced. Professional-fee portions of costs are marked as market estimates.

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jurisdictionUnited Kingdom

fieldMinimum capital

valueNo minimum initial capital under the current MLR registration. The incoming …

Source: FCA PS26/12 - Prudential regime for cryptoasset firms: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/policy/ps26-12.pdf Verified 2026-07-01
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FAQ

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A structured comparison of crypto licensing regimes across 13 jurisdictions: licence type, regulator, minimum capital, realistic timelines, application and ongoing costs, substance obligations, passporting, restrictions and recent changes. Every cell carries a verification date and a primary-source reference. It replaces days of scattered research and the first few expensive law-firm calls.

No. LicenceMap is an informational research tool and no lawyer-client relationship is created by using it. It exists to make your conversation with qualified counsel shorter and sharper, not to replace it. Always verify requirements with the regulator and local counsel before acting.

For what a specialist firm bills for roughly two hours, you get LicenceMap Pro for a year. Counsel is essential for the application itself; we make sure you pay them to execute, not to explain the basics. Arrive with a shortlist, the numbers and the right questions, and keep using the matrix and change alerts long after that first call would have been forgotten. It doesn't remove the need for lawyers. It removes the expensive warm-up.

Licence type, regulator and recent changes for every jurisdiction, one showcase jurisdiction fully open (currently United Kingdom), and one extra decision column unlocked in exchange for your email. Enough to judge the data quality before paying a penny.

Deciding where to apply once? The Founder Pass is a single payment for 30 days of full access plus a counsel-ready export, and it ends by itself. Advising clients or monitoring obligations year-round? Pro keeps you current with change alerts, the change log and new jurisdictions as they're added.

Both, depending on which side of the Atlantic you learned to spell. British English uses licence for the noun and license for the verb; American English uses license for everything. The regulators we cover, from the FCA to MAS to the EU's English drafting, all write licence, so we do too. Type it with an s and you'll still find us.

Yes. Getting licensed isn't the finish line: annual fees, audits, reporting deadlines and shifting regulator expectations keep coming. Pro tracks the obligations attached to each regime, flags the timelines that matter, and sends friendly reminders on best practice for your regulator in your licence area, so renewal season and rule changes never catch you cold.

Every cell shows its own "last verified" date, and the status page tracks freshness across the whole dataset. When a regime moves, a MiCA deadline, a fee revision, a new circular, the entry is updated and subscribers are notified. Regulator fees and thresholds are primary-sourced; professional-fee portions of cost figures are clearly marked market estimates.

Pro can be cancelled from your account at any time and access runs to the end of the paid period. The Founder Pass is a one-off with nothing to cancel. Bespoke reports are refunded in full if your request falls outside our coverage. Details in the terms.

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