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Ireland As A Location For Crypto-Asset Service Providers 2025

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Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets ("MiCA") was published in the Official Journal of the European Union in June 2023.

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Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets ("MiCA") was published in the Official Journal of the European Union in June 2023. It became applicable to issuers of asset referenced tokens and electronic money tokens in June 2024 and came fully into force for providers of crypto asset services on 30 December 2024.

MiCA brings crypto assets under a pan-EU regulatory framework that seeks to ensure increased transparency, investor protection and financial stability. It prescribes uniform requirements for the offering and admitting to trading of crypto-assets and for crypto-asset service providers ("CASPs"). These rules include transparency and disclosure requirements, authorisation and supervision requirements, requirements for the protection of holders of crypto-assets and the clients of CASPs, and measures to prevent market abuse such as insider dealing or market manipulation.

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