Which crypto exchanges are officially registered or licensed where you live?
Pick your country. We answer from the official registers — who is licensed, through which entity, under which regime, and since when. No rankings, no stars. Receipts.
What do we mean by licensed?
That the exchange meets the standards regulators actually set for running a crypto exchange. We also list registered exchanges — but that just means they've filed AML paperwork. Fine for swapping tokens; would you trust it with custody?
If your exchange isn't listed here but claims to be licensed, read the small print — plenty of businesses dress up a real but unrelated licence to look like the genuine article. We only trust the regulator's own register, never a company's own page. Why this matters.
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Coverage by jurisdiction
Currently tracking 484 exchanges · 322 with active EU (MiCA) authorisation, per the ESMA interim MiCA register. Beyond the EU/EEA, the same brands are cross-checked against these official sources:
- 17 have a UK entity on the FCA Register — 13 MLR-registered, 7 separately FCA-authorised. See the UK page for what that distinction means.
- 8 have a Canadian entity on the FINTRAC MSB Registry. See the Canada page.
- 55 hold a UAE licence — 50 a Dubai VARA VASP licence, 6 an Abu Dhabi ADGM FSRA licence (manually verified, not automatically synced) — covering two free zones, not the wider UAE. See the Dubai/Abu Dhabi page for the jurisdiction caveat.
- 14 hold a Singapore MAS Major Payment Institution licence for Digital Payment Token services. See the Singapore page.
- 50 have a US entity on the FinCEN MSB Registrant Search. See the US page for the fraud-shell caveat.
- 32 separately hold a genuine New York DFS BitLicense or trust charter — a real licence, not AML-only registration like the FinCEN entry above. See the US page for both regimes side by side.
- 13 hold a Hong Kong SFC Virtual Asset Trading Platform licence. See the Hong Kong page.
- 10 hold a Gibraltar DLT licence. See the Gibraltar page — manually verified, not on an automated schedule.
- 26 hold a Japan FSA Crypto-asset Exchange Service Provider registration. See the Japan page.
- 5 hold a Malaysia SC Recognized Market Operator - Digital Asset Exchange registration. See the Malaysia page.
- 28 have a South Korean entity registered with the FIU under the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information. See the South Korea page.
- 4 have a New Zealand entity on the Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR), supervised by the Department of Internal Affairs — manually verified, not automatically synced. See the New Zealand page.
- 18 hold a British Virgin Islands VASP registration from the FSC — a genuine crypto-specific regime, manually verified, not automatically synced. See the BVI page.
How to read the badges
- Licensed means a genuine crypto-specific licence: EU MiCA, Dubai VARA, Abu Dhabi ADGM, Singapore MAS, Hong Kong SFC, Gibraltar DLT, Japan FSA, Malaysia SC, or a New York DFS BitLicense. VARA and ADGM between them cover two UAE free zones, not the wider UAE — there's no single national crypto regulator. Gibraltar's and ADGM's registers both sit behind bot protection our scripts can't get through, so both are manually verified rather than automatically synced — see the Gibraltar and Dubai/Abu Dhabi pages. New York's is the only US state-level regime we track — see the US page.
- Registered (UK, Canada, US, South Korea) means anti-money-laundering supervision only, not a licence. The UK's own cryptoasset licensing regime doesn't open for applications until 30 Sep 2026, and none of Canada, the US, or South Korea has a dedicated cryptoasset licence at all — the US also has separate, unmapped state-level money transmitter regimes.
- UK Authorised means a group entity is separately, fully FCA-authorised, usually for a different, non-crypto regulated activity.
- Some Singapore-licensed brands (Anchorage Digital, HashKey, Paxos, Upbit, Independent Reserve) have no EU entity at all and appear only on the Singapore page.
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