EU warning list for crypto providers: 167 entries, 165 of them from Italy, none from BaFin
Anyone who wants to check whether a crypto platform is authorised at all in the European Union sooner or later comes across an official register built for exactly that purpose. The European securities regulator ESMA has maintained a register of non-compliant firms since February 2025. It is meant to collect, across Europe, those providers that supply crypto-asset services without the required permission.
We downloaded the register file on August 16, 2026, counted it line by line and called up every web address stored in it individually. The result sits awkwardly beside the European ambition of this register. Of 167 entries, 165 come from a single member state. Germany's BaFin has contributed not one, even though it has been issuing warnings about crypto platforms throughout the current year. And of 242 stored web addresses, 153 no longer answered at all on the day of the survey.
This analysis was carried out by cryptoticker.io itself on August 16, 2026.
The ESMA register of non-compliant providers: what Article 110 of MiCA requires
The legal basis is set out in Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, better known as MiCA. Article 110 is headed "Register of non-compliant entities providing crypto-asset services" and opens with a sentence worth memorising: "ESMA shall establish a non-exhaustive register of entities providing crypto-asset services in breach of Article 59 or 61."
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