Greek MiCA CASP Entries Mark New Crypto Regulatory Phase

Greece spent more than a year with an empty column in Europe’s crypto licensing books, even as dozens of foreign firms served Greek customers under passported licenses from elsewhere in the bloc. That changed on September 24, 2026, when the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) register to include four Greek providers, marking the first wave of Greek MiCA CASP entries since the regulation’s transitional period began.

Key takeaways

• Greece had zero domestic crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) registered under MiCA until four appeared together on September 24, 2026.
• Three of the four firms — BCASH, Xenios Blockchain Group, and Capital Wallet — were authorized by the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) between June 30 and August 7, 2026. Piraeus Bank was authorized by the Bank of Greece.
• Piraeus Bank, one of Greece’s four systemic banks, is among the new entrants, supervised by the Bank of Greece rather than the HCMC.
• Greece is now the 27th of 30 European Economic Area (EEA) states with at least one domestic CASP in the MiCA register; only Hungary, Poland and Romania remain without one.
• Binance withdrew its own Greek MiCA application on June 24, 2026, before a formal HCMC decision, and later became the subject of a disputed report alleging European Central Bank involvement in blocking it.