The safekeeping or controlling, on behalf of clients, of crypto-assets or of the means of access to such crypto-assets, where applicable in the form of private cryptographic keys
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Last updated: 22 August 2026.
Glossary termPublished inMiCA
Providing custody and administration of crypto-assets on behalf of clients
What does "Providing custody and administration of crypto-assets on behalf of clients" mean under MiCA?
Regulations
Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
MiCA is Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. Full application began on 30 December 2024 and the EU-wide transitional period expired on 1 July 2026, so there is now no grandfathering anywhere in the EEA. Around 325 crypto-asset service providers are authorised. Not one asset-referenced token issuer appears on ESMA's register.
NextCommission final report under Art. 140, covering DeFi, third-country equivalence, thresholds and consensus-mechanism environmental impactChecked