Looks like 3 mica casp Licenses in LT oh dear!20 Dec 2025 14:17
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Seems like three MICA licenses is a final score for 2025. How many will start over in 2026? How many will seek asylum elsewhere?
If you’re still running a “Lithuanian crypto business” with a virtual office, a one-man AML show and a SumSub screenshot as your compliance strategy, this year just gave you a very clear verdict: you’re not a business, you’re an incident waiting to happen. Out of ~50 applicants, only three made it through the MiCA filter. Coingate, Nuvei, Robinhood – all with real people, real payroll, real operations in Lithuania. Everyone else just got a hard lesson in what “substance” actually means.
MiCA didn’t “kill the ecosystem”. It simply exposed who had an ecosystem and who had a registration. FNTT is reminding non-licensed players they still have reporting and data retention duties. GDPR is turning “we’ll just move abroad” into a legal and operational nightmare. The fantasy of frictionless regulatory arbitrage inside the EU is over.
In my new piece “Act II of the Crypto kaboom in Lithuania”, I walk through how we got here, what the Bank of Lithuania actually found in those applications, and why 2026 will separate grown-up businesses from everyone who thought a template AML pack and three nominal directors was a strategy.