BlockBen
Authorisation record
Authorised services · 5
About BlockBen
BlockBen SIA is an authorised casp (CASP) under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), established in Latvia. It trades as BlockBen. It is authorised and supervised by the Latvijas Banka, which notified the authorisation on 3 December 2025. Its registered address is Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 21 - 11, Rīga, LV-1010. Its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is 254900BBV7FA7LUG5913.
Its licence covers 5 of the ten crypto-asset services defined by MiCA: providing custody and administration of crypto-assets on behalf of clients, exchange of crypto-assets for funds, exchange of crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, placing of crypto-assets and providing transfer services for crypto-assets on behalf of clients.
Under MiCA passporting, BlockBen may serve clients in 30 member states without a separate local licence: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, EL, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia.
This record is compiled from the ESMA interim register and the register of the Latvijas Banka, reflecting the snapshot of 18 August 2026. MICA Watch is an independent aggregator: for legal or compliance purposes, confirm the details against the official sources listed on this page.
Authorisation history
BlockBen first appears in the MICA Watch snapshot of 1 January 2026 — it was not in the copy of the register we took before that. This is when the record entered our archive, which is not necessarily the date the authority granted it: the register itself gives 3 December 2025.
Compiled from 17 snapshots of the ESMA register taken between 11 July 2025 and 18 August 2026. ESMA publishes the register as a weekly overwrite and keeps no public archive, so earlier states are not available from the source.