Bitvavo
Bitvavo is a Dutch crypto exchange where individuals and institutions can buy, sell and hold digital assets. The platform combines euro account funding with an app, an advanced trading interface and API access. An API lets other applications exchange data with the platform and submit trading orders through their own systems.
Customers use Bitvavo to reach crypto markets through an account-based trading and custody service. More experienced traders and institutions can connect their own systems and manage orders through the exchange. Trading and custody remain exposed to market and operational risks, even when the service is provided under a regulatory authorization.
What the MiCA license covers
The AFM granted Bitvavo its license under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Bitvavo says the license lets it offer its services across all EU member states, as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, under a single harmonized framework, as The Block quotes its announcement. Before MiCA, Bitvavo held national registrations in France, Austria, Italy and Spain next to the Netherlands. Cointelegraph placed the license in a series of MiCA approvals for exchanges, with Kraken licensed in Ireland, Coinbase in Luxembourg and Bybit in Austria. CASP license explains what such an authorization covers.
Euro trading and stablecoins
The market data firm Kaiko counts trades in euro pairs such as BTC/EUR across all exchanges, and by its count Bitvavo handles 44 percent of global EUR spot volume, as crypto hubs in Europe reports. The largest euro crypto exchanges puts the number of euro trading pairs at Bitvavo at more than 440. On the payments side, Bitvavo offers MiCA-compliant USDC, and it lists the euro and dollar stablecoins EURCV and USDCV from Societe Generale-FORGE, as SG-FORGE notes. The German custodian Tangany names Bitvavo among its clients.
Bitvavo and Germany
Bitvavo stopped its service for German customers after it withdrew its application for a BaFin crypto custody license, and said it would rely on MiCA, BTC-ECHO reported. The MiCA license from the AFM covers Germany as an EU member state, so a return no longer depends on a separate German license. Crypto in Europe explains how the MiCA passport works between member states.
Upcoming digital asset events
Event partner and panels
Bitvavo is an event partner of Finance Loop. At the Tech Day of Euro Finance Week 2025 in Frankfurt, Bitvavo took part in the closing panel "DeFi for the People", which asked who actually uses decentralized finance. In Berlin, David Kurz of Bitvavo was on stage with Finance Loop founder Michael Wutzke at the launch event of Anlage Punk, the finance and investment format of the business magazine Business Punk. One of the formats of the Berlin Blockchain Festival at w3.hub carries the Bitvavo name.
Investment & Digital Assets
Payments & Digital Money
Risk & Compliance
Does Bitvavo have a MiCA license?
The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets granted Bitvavo a MiCA license, which covers all EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
How large is Bitvavo in euro trading?
According to Kaiko Bitvavo handles 44 percent of global spot trading in euro pairs, with more than 440 euro trading pairs.
Exchanges and MiCA
Bitvavo and Finance Loop
Bitvavo is an event partner of Finance Loop. Crypto exchanges such as Bitvavo belong to the Finance Loop Investment & Digital Assets track.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.