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The old register of virtual currency activities, run by the Director of the Tax Administration Chamber in Katowice, closed to new entries on 30 December 2024, and the MiCA transitional period ran out on 1 July 2026, after which the Ministry of Finance confirmed that an entry in that register no longer authorizes anybody to provide crypto-asset services. President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed the Crypto-Asset Market Act three times, the last on 11 June 2026, and the Sejm's override attempt failed on 5 September 2026 with 241 votes against the 266 needed, which leaves the country with no authority empowered to grant a CASP authorization. So what a Polish entity carries today is the company, its banking and exchange relationships, its transaction history, its Polish footprint, and an AML file that stands up when supervision finally lands somewhere. Firms that need Polish clients this year are authorizing as a CASP in another member state and passporting in under Article 65 of MiCA, which works now and puts the home regulator in Nicosia, Tallinn, Vaduz, Frankfurt or Paris rather than Warsaw. Read the listings below on that basis, and ask about the entity's operating history before you ask about the register entry.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Can you still get a crypto license in Poland? +

No. The national register of virtual currency activities closed to new entries on 30 December 2024, and the Crypto-Asset Market Act that would have made the KNF the competent authority for CASP licensing has been vetoed three times, most recently on 11 June 2026, with the parliamentary override failing on 5 September 2026.

Is a Polish VASP registration still valid? +

Not as an authorization. The MiCA transitional period expired on 1 July 2026, and the Ministry of Finance has confirmed that an entry in the virtual currency register no longer permits a firm to operate as a VASP or a CASP. Firms still holding one are expected to wind down or move their authorization elsewhere.

How do you serve Polish clients legally right now? +

Get authorized as a CASP in another EU member state and passport into Poland under Article 65 of MiCA. Once the home regulator notifies the Polish authority, no separate Polish authorization is required, and this is the route most of the market has taken since July.

Then why buy a Polish company at all? +

For the operating substance rather than the paperwork. A Polish entity with real banking, exchange accounts, a transaction history, staff, and a local address is a working business in a market of 38 million people, and it is far easier to bolt a passported authorization onto that than to build the Polish side from nothing.

Which EU jurisdictions are Polish firms licensing in? +

Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, France, Liechtenstein and Malta take most of the traffic, and the choice usually comes down to regulator throughput, local substance requirements, and how quickly the authority processes a change of control if you are buying rather than applying.

What capital does a MiCA CASP license require? +

Article 67 sets €50,000 for exchange, order execution, placing, advice, portfolio management and transfers, €125,000 for custody and administration, and €150,000 for operating a trading platform. The binding figure is the higher of that threshold or one quarter of the previous year's fixed overheads.

Will the KNF eventually supervise Polish crypto firms? +

That is what every version of the vetoed bill provides for, and the KNF has itself warned that the missing domestic framework hurts Polish firms seeking EU authorizations. Until a version passes or survives an override, the supervisor exists on paper and nowhere else.

What should you check before buying a Polish crypto company? +

Whether it wound down cleanly after 1 July 2026, whether client funds and crypto were returned or transferred properly, whether the banking and exchange accounts are still open, and whether any regulator or tax authority has an open file on it. A dormant clean entity is worth something. An entity that kept onboarding after the deadline is a liability.