Good evening and welcome to a special weekend edition of Kaupr Today!

This weekend we published Episode 5 of Kaupr Weekly — the final stretch before Europe's biggest crypto deadline yet: who has cleared their MiCA licence, who is closing shop instead, and why Binance's own status has become a test case for the whole industry. On June 30th, Kaupr brings together leading voices for State of ETFs and Digital Assets in the Nordics — a live broadcast on the regulated ETF and ETP market, built for wealth managers, family offices and institutional investors..

♦️ Episode 5 of Kaupr Weekly: The MiCA Countdown — and the growth fights still to come — listen below.
♦️ State of ETFs and Digital Assets in the Nordics — live June 30th, 11:00–13:00 CET. Register now.

Have a great evening and happy listening!
Morten

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad takes stock of the final stretch before Europe's biggest crypto regulatory deadline. On 1 July, MiCA's transition period ends — and across the Nordics and Baltics, the picture is split. Firi and K33 in Norway, Safello in Sweden, and a wave of Latvian firms have crossed the finish line. Bitmynt closed instead of applying. Veli got acquired. Kriptomat, eight years in business and fully solvent, is winding down anyway. And Binance — long the dominant exchange in this region — is caught in a dispute with Greek regulators that the industry reads as a test of how seriously Brussels will enforce MiCA against its biggest name.

Along the way, Morten asks a question he has been sitting with for a while: is the licence really the prize everyone thinks it is? Or is the real competition only just getting started?

♦️ K33 to use MiCA licence to expand across Europe
♦️ Bitmynt, Norway's first bitcoin exchange, shuts down ahead of MiCA
♦️ K33 targets big Nordic clients, not bound by borders
♦️ The battle for the Nordics' biggest crypto clients is on after MiCA
♦️ Danish Penning acquires Lithuanian wealth manager Veli
♦️ Binance May Lose License and EU/EEA Access
♦️ Goobit awaits MiCA approval as losses widen

The Nordic market for digital-asset ETFs and ETPs has grown steadily this year, led primarily by new product launches and listings from Virtune and Bitwise on Nasdaq Stockholm. On June 30th, Kaupr brings together senior voices from issuers, researchers, platforms and asset managers to take stock of the market — built around the wealth management, family office, private banking and institutional investor perspective. The broadcast goes live on LinkedIn Live, YouTube Live and kaupr.io from 11:00 to 13:00 CET, open to all.

Why it matters: This comes as crypto exchanges and brokers are being regulated in parallel through MiCA licensing — two regulated tracks converging on the same institutional audience this week's podcast episode has been tracking.

Source: ETF and ETP in digital assets — what does the growth mean for Nordic investors? — Kaupr

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Best regards
Morten Myrstad
Founder & Editor