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Article 9Publication of the crypto-asset white paper and of the marketing communications

CELEX 32023R1114 · Read on 2026-08-18

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1. Offerors and persons seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens shall publish their crypto-asset white papers and, where applicable, their marketing communications, on their website, which shall be publicly accessible, at a reasonable time in advance of, and in any event before the starting date …

Verbatim from the article. Source: NovaCopilot · https://legal.exploreworldai.com/eu/rattsakter/mica-2023-1114/artikel-9 · Short answer as data · Official text

MiCA, crypto-assets in short

Crypto-asset service providers need authorisation, and issuers need a white paper. Stablecoins have special rules.

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1. Offerors and persons seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens shall publish their crypto-asset white papers and, where applicable, their marketing communications, on their website, which shall be publicly accessible, at a reasonable time in advance of, and in any event before the starting date of, the offer to the public of those crypto-assets or the admission to trading of those crypto-assets. The crypto-asset white papers and, where applicable, the marketing communications, shall remain available on the website of the offerors or persons seeking admission trading for as long as the crypto-assets are held by the public.

2. The published crypto-asset white papers and, where applicable, the marketing communications, shall be identical to the version notified to the competent authority in accordance with Article 8 or, where applicable, to the version modified in accordance with Article 12.

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