Crypto License in Slovenia (2026)

What the application requires

• A legal person established in Slovenia, with a registered office and effective management in the country
• Own funds at the MiCA Article 67 floor for your highest service class, or one quarter of the preceding year's fixed overheads if that is greater
• At least one director resident in the EU, and fit and proper clearance for the management body and qualifying shareholders
• An AML and counter-terrorist financing programme meeting Slovenian and EU standards, including the travel rule on crypto transfers
• ICT risk management, testing and incident reporting under DORA
• A business plan, governance arrangements, and segregation of client crypto-assets and client funds
• Complaints handling, conflict of interest and outsourcing policies as required by MiCA Title V
• For e-money token issuers: authorization as an electronic money institution or a bank from Banka Slovenije, with notification 40 working days before a public offer and 20 working days before white paper publication

The application process

1. 1

   Establish the Slovenian entity

   Incorporate a Slovenian legal person with a registered office and real management substance in the country, since MiCA authorization attaches to the establishment rather than to the group.

2. 2

   Decide which regulator you are going to

   Crypto-asset services go to the ATVP. Issuing an e-money token goes to Banka Slovenije and requires electronic money institution or bank status first.

3. 3

   Fix your service classes and capital

   Map each service you intend to provide onto MiCA Annex IV, then hold own funds at the highest class floor that applies, or one quarter of fixed overheads if greater.

4. 4

   Compile the application dossier

   Business plan, governance, fit and proper evidence, AML and travel rule procedures, DORA documentation, custody and client asset segregation arrangements.

5. 5

   File with the ATVP

   The ATVP confirms whether the application is complete within 25 working days under MiCA Article 63, and returns it for completion if it is not.

6. 6

   Substantive assessment

   A 40 working day assessment follows, paused by any request for further information, which is where most of the real elapsed time goes.

7. 7

   Authorization, register entry and passporting

   On approval the firm is entered in the ESMA public register and may notify its way into the other 26 member states without a second authorization.

Costs and taxation

The capital floors are EU law and identical across every MiCA member state, so a Slovenia-specific figure that differs from EUR 50,000, EUR 125,000 or EUR 150,000 is simply wrong. Fees are the softer number. Figures circulating for a Slovenian CASP application range from roughly EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000, but those are licensing consultancies pricing their own packages rather than a published ATVP tariff, so confirm the supervisory fee with the ATVP before you budget against them.

Who is licensed today

Authorized Slovenian firms appear on the ATVP's own MiCA pages and in the ESMA public register of crypto-asset service providers. As of August 2026 that is three service providers, Ilirika, Incrementum and Orcabay, plus one e-money token issuer, Dinaro. Third-party trackers sometimes show a different count depending on when they last refreshed, so treat the ESMA register as the authority. See the official register.

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