For trainees and junior lawyers · EU law

Crypto-Asset Regulation

A Dublin exchange wins its licence and then has to live under it, rule by rule. You are a junior lawyer in its legal and compliance team.

How a crypto firm wins and keeps its licence, taught through one firm’s first year and its compliance binder.

A quayside street drawn straight on, a little after six in the morning, seen from the river over a stone river wall with a railing on it. In the middle stands a plain office block, a tall ground floor and four floors above it; every window is dark except one on the top floor, filled in copper. To its left, in an older three-storey building, a small bakery has its light on: a lamp throwing its light over round loaves on two shelves and a stack of bread trays behind the glass, and a wisp of steam from its flue; the shop next door is still shuttered. A gull stands on the top rail of the railing, facing the bakery. The street lamp is already off.

You will be able to:

  • Tell which crypto services need a licence under EU rules
  • Explain how a firm keeps its clients’ coins and money safe
  • Act when a transfer, a trade or a system goes wrong

10 chapters with tests · a final exam · a certificate · about 4 hours in all · published 16 September 2026

Start Chapter 1

Chapters

Module 1

What Is Being Regulated

Module 2

The Licence

Module 3

Living With It

Module 4

The Junior’s Craft

One case runs through every chapter: an Irish crypto exchange spends its first year under a licence. Read the full Compliance Binder →

Glossary: every term in plain English · Final exam: 30 questions, open book