Is Tesseract regulated in the EU?
Tesseract — legal name Tesseract Investment Oy. Crypto-asset service provider (CASP) with home Member State 🇫🇮 Finland.
Authorised under MiCA
Tesseract is listed in the ESMA register as an authorised crypto-asset service provider. The licence was granted by Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA) on 12 September 2025 and covers 1 of 10 MiCA services in 30 EEA countries.
Tesseract among the EU's authorised providers
Tesseract was the 2nd of 5 crypto-asset service providers currently authorised in Finland, and one of 365 across the EEA, licensed 8 months after MiCA became applicable. With 1 authorised service it is below the register average of 3.3; 262 providers hold a broader one. Its passport covers the whole EEA, something 58 of the 365 providers have notified. FIN-FSA supervises 5 authorised providers in total.
What the authorisation covers
Tesseract is authorised for 1 of the ten crypto-asset services defined in Article 3(1)(16) of MiCA. It is not authorised for operating a trading platform, exchange for funds, exchange for other crypto-assets, execution of orders, placing of crypto-assets, reception and transmission of orders, advice on crypto-assets, portfolio management, transfer services — if it offers those, that activity is outside this licence.
- a Custody and administration all EEA Holding clients' crypto-assets or the private keys to them, and keeping them safe. This is what a wallet service or an exchange that keeps your coins does.
Not authorised: b. Operating a trading platform · c. Exchange for funds · d. Exchange for other crypto-assets · e. Execution of orders · f. Placing of crypto-assets · g. Reception and transmission of orders · h. Advice on crypto-assets · i. Portfolio management · j. Transfer services.
Where it may operate
Tesseract has notified all 30 EEA countries: under MiCA's passporting rules, a licence from one Member State lets the provider offer its services across the whole European Economic Area after a simple notification.
- 🇦🇹 AT
- 🇧🇪 BE
- 🇧🇬 BG
- 🇭🇷 HR
- 🇨🇾 CY
- 🇨🇿 CZ
- 🇩🇰 DK
- 🇪🇪 EE
- 🇫🇮 FI
- 🇫🇷 FR
- 🇩🇪 DE
- 🇬🇷 GR
- 🇭🇺 HU
- 🇮🇸 IS
- 🇮🇪 IE
- 🇮🇹 IT
- 🇱🇻 LV
- 🇱🇮 LI
- 🇱🇹 LT
- 🇱🇺 LU
- 🇲🇹 MT
- 🇳🇱 NL
- 🇳🇴 NO
- 🇵🇱 PL
- 🇵🇹 PT
- 🇷🇴 RO
- 🇸🇰 SK
- 🇸🇮 SI
- 🇪🇸 ES
- 🇸🇪 SE
Highlighted: countries notified for at least one service. Outlined: home Member State. Passporting is per service; see the list on the left for each service's count.
Identification
- Legal name
- Tesseract Investment Oy
- Trading as
- Tesseract
- LEI
- 743700GULNWPBLJ7A022 · GLEIF record
- Competent authority
- Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA) (Finland)
- Registered address
- Fredrikinkatu 47 00100 Helsinki
- Declared website
- tesseract.fi
- Authorised on
- 12 September 2025
- Register entry updated
- 20 October 2025
Questions people ask
Is Tesseract regulated in the EU?
Yes. Tesseract (Tesseract Investment Oy) holds a MiCA authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider, granted by Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA) on 12 September 2025. It appears in the ESMA register of authorised CASPs.
Which crypto services is Tesseract authorised for?
1 of the ten MiCA services: custody and administration.
In which countries can Tesseract offer crypto services?
In all 30 EEA countries, through the MiCA passport.
Who supervises Tesseract?
Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA), the competent authority in Finland, which is the provider's home Member State under MiCA.
Other providers authorised in Finland
- BittimaattiBittimaatti OyAuthorised
- NorthCryptoNorthCrypto OyAuthorised
- Kvarn XKvarn Capital OyAuthorised
- CoinmotionCoinmotion OyAuthorised
Source: ESMA interim MiCA register (CASPS.csv), as reported by Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA). This page reflects the register as of our last sync; it is not a statement by the regulator. Methodology.