WHY THIS MATTERS

The compliance partnership between Coinhouse and Crypto Risk Metrics highlights a major shift in the European digital asset landscape. As the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation takes full effect across the European Union, the era of regulatory gray areas is officially over. Platforms can no longer survive on basic domestic registrations. Coinhouse—historically the first company to register as a digital asset service provider (PSAN) with the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in 2020—has aggressively transformed its operations to secure an official MiCA authorization covering seven distinct regulated services.

However, MiCA introduces severe, institutional-grade…