RE: Kucoin MiCA granted Austria.4 Dec 2025 09:51
What the rules say
BoL guideline 2024/03:
“A crypto-asset service provider that has not obtained authorisation before 31 December 2025 must, at the latest on 15 December 2025, inform its clients of the date on which it will cease to provide crypto-asset services and of the arrangements for the return of funds and crypto-assets.”
MiCA Art. 138 (echoed in Lithuanian transposition):
Same 15-day “wind-down notice” if the firm will not be grandfathered.
What GST.L itself did in Singapore
When MAS refused to renew the temporary exemption for Bake.io and GS20 in August 2023, the group:
issued an RNS the same day,
emailed every verified user within 24 h,
opened a 30-day withdrawal window, and
kept the warning banner on the exchange homepage until the last account was zero.
That pattern shows management do not sit on bad regulatory news.
Today’s observable facts
No customer-facing notice on either bake.io or gs20exchange (checked 4 Dec 2025).
No “We may cease trading” risk-statement in the 30 November 2025 T&C update.
No new RNS since the 20 November interview.
No “intended cessation” filing in the Lithuanian company register.
Inference
Because:
(a) the statutory notice deadline (15 Dec) is only eleven days away,
(b) the group has a proven track-record of immediate customer disclosure, and
(c) absolutely no wind-down communication has appeared,
the most rational conclusion is that management still expect to be inside the grandfathering window.
A refusal would already have triggered the legally-required customer warning; the complete absence of one is therefore a strong confirmatory signal that the file is still live and approval is the base-case scenario.