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MiCA Decoded: Offshore Corporate Structures With MiCA Licensing: What Nobody Thought Possible

DIGIT — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:30:12 +0000

It’s hard to imagine that, with its reputation of strictness, the MiCA regulation would allow for offshore structures. Evidence shows that it’s actually common practice. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies […]

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MiCA Decoded: Comparing MiCA (EU) to VARA (Dubai) and MAS (Singapore)

DIGIT — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:30:46 +0000

You would be wrong to assume that major crypto licensing regulations are converging to the same point. On the opposite: they tend to focus on area-specific goals. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and […]

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MiCA Decoded: Thinking a CASP License Covers Payments, Perps or Futures is a Major Mistake

DIGIT — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:05:17 +0000

Most founders pursuing a MiCA license assume they are solving their EU regulatory problem. They are solving part of it. The rest depends on which services they actually offer. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises […]

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MiCA Decoded: ‘We Have an EU Office’ Is Not Enough: Here’s What Regulators Actually Want to See

DIGIT — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:30:28 +0000

You have the entity. You have the address. You even have the capital. So why is the regulator still not satisfied? Because under MiCA, substance is an empirical test of whether your business genuinely operates from within the EU, and most applicants underestimate what that actually demands. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for […]

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MiCA Decoded: Why the Regulator Sees Your Compliance Team as a Single Brain

DIGIT — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:30:13 +0000

The organizational chart with the right job titles will not get you licensed. What the regulator is looking for is a compliance architecture: documented independence, collective expertise across three distinct knowledge domains, and real institutional substance. This is how that standard works in practice. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored […]

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‘We Are DeFi, so MiCA Does Not Apply to Us.’ Sorry, but EBA and ESMA Have a Different Point of View

DIGIT — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:30:15 +0000

Do you think that DeFi projects are exempt from European regulation? Think again. Regulators look past technical architecture to assess who actually wields operational control. Discover why the “fully decentralised” exemption is exceptionally narrow and how this substance-over-form test dictates your MiCA obligations. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by […]

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MiCA Decoded: Your Crypto White Paper Can’t Just Be a Gitbook or PDF

DIGIT — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:30:18 +0000

When most people hear crypto white paper, they think of Satoshi Nakamoto’s nine-page document, or an ICO-era pitch deck dressed up in technical language. MiCA has a different definition, and the gap between the popular understanding and the legal reality is where many compliance failures begin. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com […]

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Only 25 + 40 Days to Get a MiCA License? Let’s Decode the Actual Timeline

DIGIT — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:30:26 +0000

MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. The Myth: You Can Get an Authorization in Just a Quarter […]

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MiCA Decoded: July 1 Is Not the Deadline. For Most Service Providers, It Already Passed

DIGIT — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:30:56 +0000

Picture a crypto exchange registered in an EU Member State, operating normally in early April 2026. The registration is valid. The compliance team has July 1 circled in red. The founder believes the situation is under control: there are still 90 days to sort out the licensing. The business is legal today, and the deadline […]

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MiCA Decoded: 174 Registered CASPs, but Only 14 Can Operate a Centralized Crypto Exchange (CEX)?

DIGIT — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:15:10 +0000

If the EU has already issued 174 MiCA licenses, why are there only 14 actual crypto exchanges on the list? To demystify this, we need to decode what the public registers are really telling us about how crypto businesses are setting up in Europe. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored […]

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