Crypto firms authorised in Ireland: the register explained

If you are asking which crypto firms the Central Bank of Ireland has authorised, the answer from the register we checked on 5 October 2026 is twelve entities. They are on the ESMA interim MiCA register file modified on 30 September 2026, with Ireland as home state: Kraken's two Irish companies, CoinJar Europe, Ramp's Irish entity, the Skrill and NETELLER company, and seven others, several of them aimed at businesses or brokerage clients. Coinbase, Bitpanda, Revolut, Crypto.com and OKX are not on that Irish list. They reach Irish customers on a passport from another EU country.

That distinction trips people up, so this page spells it out, shows how to check any firm yourself, and notes where the register can mislead. For the wider legal picture, see crypto regulation in Ireland, and for which exchanges suit which user, our exchange comparison.

The twelve Irish-authorised entities

The Central Bank describes its role on its MiCAR page, and it is Ireland's competent authority for MiCA under S.I. 607/2024. The register file lists each firm's authorisation date and the services it may provide. Here they are in date order, with what we could establish about each. "Details unverified" means the firm's own site blocked our checks or said little.

Prices, minimums and coin lists for the retail names belong on their own pages. Kraken in Ireland is the one to start with, because it is the only large retail exchange on the Irish list. Look at the pattern too: at least four of the twelve (Confirmo, StoneX, Interactive Brokers Ireland and Virtu) are built for businesses or brokerage clients, and Ramp serves other apps. Most Irish consumers who buy crypto do so through a passported firm rather than an Irish-authorised one.

How passporting works

MiCA lets a firm authorised in one member state provide services in the others. Under Article 65, the home authority notifies the host states, and the firm can start once it has that confirmation or from the 15th calendar day. On the register, a column lists the member states where the firm intends to provide services. For us, the thing to look for is "IE".

Here are the large names that serve Irish customers on a passport, all of which we confirmed list Ireland in the 30 September 2026 file:

Two things follow. First, "lists IE" is permission to serve Ireland, not proof that a given firm is actively onboarding Irish customers. Always read the firm's own terms. Second, being authorised elsewhere does not make the Central Bank irrelevant. Its MiCA FAQ states that the Consumer Protection Code applies to inward-passporting crypto firms serving Irish customers. But supervision of the firm itself sits with the home regulator, which matters if you complain.

A note on Coinbase, because it is often described as "Irish". Coinbase has a Dublin office, and Coinbase Ireland Limited is an Irish electronic-money institution for the euro wallet. The crypto contract for Irish users, however, is with Coinbase Luxembourg S.A. The register shows no Irish-home Coinbase entity. See Coinbase in Ireland for the structure.

Check a firm yourself, step by step

1. Get the legal name

   Look in the firm's terms and conditions or the footer of its website for the company that provides crypto services to Irish customers. The brand name often differs from the legal entity.

2. Open the ESMA register

   Go to the ESMA MiCA page and open the CASP file in a spreadsheet. Search for the entity name or its LEI (the 20-character legal entity identifier), not just the brand.

3. Read the whole row

   Note the home state, regulator, authorisation date and services. If the firm is not Irish, check that IE is in the list of service countries.

4. Look at the non-compliant list

   ESMA also publishes a file of non-compliant entities. When we checked, it had 173 rows, mostly Italian, and none for Ireland. A name there is a warning; a name missing is not clearance.

5. For Irish firms, check the Central Bank's registers

   The Central Bank directs consumers to its registers. Its site did not load for our automated checks, so we relied on the ESMA file.

6. Match what the firm says

   The firm's legal pages should state its authorisation and regulator. Cloned sites copy these details, so reach the site from a link you trust, not from an advert.

If a firm fails any step, stop and do not transfer money. Our crypto scams guide shows what fake-register tricks look like.

Why the register can lag

The interim register is a spreadsheet fed by national regulators, not a live service, and it comes with three caveats.

It is only as current as its last update. The newest last-update value inside the 30 September 2026 file was 31 August 2026, so a firm authorised in September may not appear yet.

It records authorisations, not business changes. Gemini is the case in point: Gemini Intergalactic EU Ltd (Malta, authorised 21 August 2025, with IE in its service list) was still on the register when we checked, yet Gemini's own help article says it closed all customer accounts in the UK, EEA and Australia on 6 April 2026. Accounts were withdrawal-only from 5 March. A register entry says a firm may serve you. It does not say it still does.

It may move. ESMA has said the register will be integrated into its IT systems, so the file addresses can change. If a link fails, go back to ESMA's MiCA page.

What the Central Bank says if your firm is not authorised

From 1 July 2026, MiCA's transitional periods ended across the EU. ESMA's statement of 23 June 2026 says unauthorised providers must wind down in an orderly way, stop onboarding new EU clients and stop marketing, limiting themselves to selling, transferring or closing positions. (Ireland's own transition for existing VASPs ended earlier, at the end of December 2025.)

The Central Bank's consumer notice says customers of unauthorised providers do not benefit from the safeguards of MiCA. It tells them to verify their provider on the ESMA register and, if it is not authorised, to act promptly by moving their crypto-assets to an authorised provider or to a self-hosted wallet. Its separate crypto page adds that crypto is not protected by any compensation scheme. If this is your situation, read our page on Binance in Ireland, where we apply that advice to the most-asked case, and keep full records for tax: Revenue expects six years of them.

Coinbase's €21.46m fine: a lesson about AML

Authorisation is not a verdict on conduct. On 6 November 2025 the Central Bank fined Coinbase Europe Limited €21,464,734 (after a 30% settlement discount from €30,663,906) for failures in transaction monitoring under anti-money-laundering rules between 23 April 2021 and 19 March 2025. According to the Central Bank's announcement, about 30.4 million transactions, worth more than €176 billion, were not properly monitored, and 2,708 suspicious-transaction reports were filed late.

Accuracy matters here. The fined company is Coinbase Europe Limited, the earlier Irish entity, not Coinbase Luxembourg S.A., which now holds the MiCA authorisation. The case was about monitoring systems for money-laundering and terrorist-financing risk. The lesson for you is modest and practical: a regulator's stamp tells you a firm met the entry test, while enforcement notices tell you where firms have fallen short. Read both.

Last checked, and how often we refresh

We last checked the register on 5 October 2026, using the file modified on 30 September 2026 (364 rows EU-wide, 12 with Ireland as home state). We re-run the Irish filter and the passport checks monthly, and sooner when the Central Bank or ESMA publishes a notice that affects Irish users. If you see a name that has changed, tell us through the contact page.

This page is information, not legal or investment advice. For what to do next, our step-by-step buying guide assumes you have already checked the firm.