Strike was originally founded in the United States, but Bitcoin was never meant to stop at a border. As global money, Bitcoin led us to build products, obtain local licenses, and open local entities to help people everywhere access the money of the future. We started serving eligible European customers in April 2024 through a Poland-based VASP entity and have since held ourselves to the standards regulators expect.

Today, we've relocated Strike Europe's headquarters to Malta. Zap (Strike) Europe Limited is now a licensed crypto-asset service provider authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority under MiCA (EU Regulation 2023/1114) and the Malta Markets in Crypto Assets Act (Cap. 647, laws of Malta) to provide crypto-asset services.

What the MiCA license means for you

MiCA sets one standard for what a crypto-asset service provider must do to operate across the EU. It covers four areas in particular:

• Asset segregation: MiCA requires a firm to hold customer assets apart from its own, so balances stay ring-fenced and remain customer's property. Bitcoin and cash balances must be held one-to-one, never lent out, and never used to run the company.
• Financial soundness: MiCA-licensed firms are examined to demonstrate compliance with minimum capital requirements and ongoing solvency.
• Fit-and-proper leadership: Executives must pass checks on their experience and standing.
• Compliance controls: MiCA enforces strict compliance for crypto-asset service providers designed to improve resilience and benefit customers, including best execution, order handling rules, custody and asset safeguarding rules, conflicts of interest rules, strict anti-money-laundering rules, clear and honest disclosures, and more.

The bar is high. Until last year, an estimate put the number of virtual asset service providers (VASPs) operating in the EU at more than 3,000. As of today, less than 300 have been granted full MiCA authorization, placing Strike Europe among a select few.

A regulated company, built for Bitcoin

Being regulated strengthens the ground on which Strike stands. It does not change what Strike stands for.

Many Europeans buy bitcoin through neobanks and multi-asset exchanges where Bitcoin is an afterthought, one tile among hundreds. Strike is still Bitcoin-only, the way it was built from the first line of code. No altcoin menu, no distraction, one asset done well. Strike provides free on-chain withdrawals, so you can keep 100% of the bitcoin you buy. We are here to help you save the best money there is, not to gamble on price swings.

Europe is the latest chapter, not the final one. Across the Strike group, we strive to be regulated in different jurisdictions. Earlier in 2026, Strike's US entity secured a New York BitLicense and a Money Transmitter License from the New York State Department of Financial Services, completing its expansion to all 50 states. Like MiCA, the New York BitLicense is widely regarded as one of the most rigorous crypto-regulatory frameworks in the US, requiring capital reserves, cybersecurity programs, anti-money-laundering controls, and real consumer safeguards, all of which Strike met.

Across its entities, the Strike group is now one of the most regulated Bitcoin companies in the world, regulated across multiple jurisdictions and taking public steps through 2026 to deepen that standing. Strike continues to expand its operations into more jurisdictions while maintaining the same high standards, and MiCA is the latest milestone on that path.