Since July, all but 11 Czech crypto firms must stop serving clients

Unlicensed firms must hand their customers' coins and cash to a licensed firm or back to the customer.ČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation · Those that keep trading risk fines above 100M CZK.ČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation ·

Good for Someone who knows crypto wallets and exchanges and likes careful paperwork.

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Fintech
Entry
Easy
Verified

The opportunity

0/2 · Unclear pain

Only 11 Czech crypto firms won the new EU licence, and every other provider must stop serving clients.2 sourcesČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation · ČNBcnb.czČNB — eleven crypto licences granted (another site)The regulator's own tally: 251 applications assessed, 204 filed inside the transitional period, 11 permissions granted. The licensed set is two orders of magnitude smaller than the affected one.News ·

  • About 30,000 people and firms held the old, free crypto trade licence.ČNBcnb.czČNB — 2025 supervision report, crypto (another site)The regulator's own count of the pre-MiCA population: roughly 30,000 subjects held the free virtual-asset trade licence, about 5,000 of them companies — but only 188 kept the right to trade through the transitional period.Statistic ·
  • 188 of them kept the right to trade until July 2026.ČNBcnb.czČNB — 2025 supervision report, crypto (another site)The regulator's own count of the pre-MiCA population: roughly 30,000 subjects held the free virtual-asset trade licence, about 5,000 of them companies — but only 188 kept the right to trade through the transitional period.Statistic ·
  • Each firm without a licence must move its clients' coins and cash out.ČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation ·

Suggested solution

Build a fixed-price service that winds down an unlicensed crypto firm: tells customers, moves their coins and cash, closes the records.

Why now

2/3 · Firm deadline

The deadline is behind them: since 1 July 2026 an unlicensed crypto firm must stop serving clients and move their coins and cash out.ČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation ·

  • A firm that keeps serving clients unlicensed risks a fine above 100M CZK.ČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation ·
  • A departing firm must tell every client in time how settlement will run.Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the market.Market check ·
  • A departing firm's anti-money-laundering duties last to its final day.Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the market.Market check ·

Willing to pay

0/2 · No sign yet

No Czech price for a wind-down is published yet: the one law firm offering it bills by the hour.2 sourcesstuchlikova.comStuchlíková & Partners — what a CASP licence takes (another site)A Czech law firm's own page on the licence: initial capital of €50,000–150,000, one to two months of preparation and a three-to-six-month central-bank process. It publishes no fee, and neither does anyone…Statistic · Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the…Market check ·

  • The buyers are the firms that traded until July without winning a licence.2 sourcesČNBcnb.czČNB — end of the MiCA transition period (another site)The central bank's warning: from 1 July 2026 only licensed firms may serve clients, everyone else must cease and transfer customer crypto and funds. Fines can exceed CZK 100M.Regulation · ČNBcnb.czČNB — 2025 supervision report, crypto (another site)The regulator's own count of the pre-MiCA population: roughly 30,000 subjects held the free virtual-asset trade licence, about 5,000 of them companies — but only 188 kept the right to trade through the…Statistic ·
  • Firms already pay law firms and advisers to get licensed, the opposite job.Market checkzpravy.kurzy.czFinreg Partners and the Czech licensing-advisory field (another site)Names who already sells into this: Finreg Partners (behind three of the eleven licences), ARROWS, Kopečný & Partners and AMS Europe — all selling applications and policies as services.Market check ·
  • Licensed firms that take over departing firms' customers may pay too.Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the market.Market check ·

Validated abroad

0/3 · Not yet

Nobody abroad is known to sell a crypto firm's wind-down as a product, so there is no template to copy.2 sourcesMarket checkkryptoregulace.czkryptoregulace.cz and the Czech MiCA supply side (another site)A deeper Czech sweep for wind-down and compliance-operations products. Everything Czech it found is advisory; the product-shaped answers — MarketGuard, AMLBot, Sigma360 — are all foreign.Market check · Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the…Market check ·

Market gap

1/2 · Early rivals only

Czech advisers sell getting licensed, not getting out, and one law firm has offered since June 2026 to guide an exit.2 sourcesMarket checkzpravy.kurzy.czFinreg Partners and the Czech licensing-advisory field (another site)Names who already sells into this: Finreg Partners (behind three of the eleven licences), ARROWS, Kopečný & Partners and AMS Europe — all selling applications and policies as services.Market check · Market checkakschejbal.czWho sells the way out — Czech supply, searched again (another site)A wider Czech sweep for anyone selling the exit rather than the licence. Every Czech service menu it read sells getting licensed, and one law firm has started offering to prepare an orderly departure from the…Market check ·

New, selling this: SCHEJBAL&PARTNERS (since 2026). Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: kryptoregulace.cz (Blockchain Legal) (since 2017), ARROWS (since 2018), AMS Europe (since 2022), Key2Law, Kopečný & Partners, PROFI Poradenství & Finance, Stuchlíková & Partners. Established, selling something nearby: Finreg Partners (since 2018). No established player sells this here.

The space is still open

Execution difficulty

3/3 · Easy

Makes it easier

  • Departing firms buy for themselves.
  • No licence is needed to sell them the help.
  • The established adviser nearby sells licences, not exits.

Makes it harder

  • A Czech law firm already offers to guide the exit.
  • No price for the job is published.