While Europe has enacted defined rules for the digital asset sector, the challenge with bogus sites seeking to fleece the unsuspecting persists. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the French securities regulator, highlights this issue with regular updates to the “black list.”
Today, the AMF reports that since the beginning of 2025, 19 websites have been added to the list of bogus crypto sites. This morning, they updated the list with several more unauthorized crypto sites.
Additional warnings include platforms that claim to provide crowdfunding services as well as other fraudster sites.
The white list is informative too as recent additions include:
- N26, a digital bank based in Germany, approved under MiCA to offer crypto services in France.
- Finst BV, a crypto DASP/CASP based in Netherlands, approved under MiCA
- Coinshares, a crypto DASP/CASP – licensed in France under MiCA
- Kraken, the company’s Irish entity, is now approved under MiCA to offer services in France
- Coinbase, the company’s Luxembourg entity, is now approved under MiCA to offer services in France
- Robinhood Europe, the company’s Lithuanian entity, is now approved under MiCA to offer services in France
And many more.
The validation of regulated digital asset services in the US combined with MiCA regulations is helping to drive a boom in global digital asset firms.