A comparator, not an opinion.
01The regulatory context
1st July 2026 marks the full entry into application of the European MiCA regulation (Markets in Crypto-Assets) across the 27 member states. Since that date, any platform wishing to legally offer crypto-asset services to EU residents must hold a CASP (Crypto-Asset Service Provider) licence, issued by a national regulator and valid across the whole EU thanks to the European passporting principle. Former national statuses ceased to have effect on that date.
The transition period was eventful. In early 2026, more than 170 providers had obtained their MiCA licence; by the end of the transition period, there were about 280 across the Union. But among the big names, not everyone followed the same path. Binance, the largest player in the sector worldwide, is the most striking example: after betting on Greece to obtain its licence, the platform saw its application threatened with rejection in mid-June 2026, withdrew it on 24 June, then had to suspend its services in several EU countries on 1st July.
For millions of users across Europe, often on this single platform for years, that meant something very concrete: withdrawing funds in a hurry, then choosing a new platform, without necessarily knowing where to start or who to trust.
02The observation that motivated Uncrypt
We went through this ourselves, even before MiCA came into application: the question of which platform to choose didn't arise for us only because of the regulatory context, but from our very first personal research into the crypto ecosystem.
What we found, in short: two broad families of sites, each with its own problem.
The first is comparators funded almost exclusively by affiliation, where the ranking shown at the top of the page rarely reflects a genuinely objective sort. We repeatedly ended up with platforms at the top of the list that simply had nothing to do with what we were looking for, the wrong account type, not the right offering, sometimes not even accessible from France, but which stayed at the top because they paid the best commission per click or sign-up.
The second family is sites more serious in their editorial intent, with genuinely well-crafted content. The problem there isn't bad faith, it's verifiability: no date shown on fee or status data, no link to the primary source, no simple way to know whether what you're reading is still accurate at the moment you read it. A fee announced in January may have changed by June without the page ever being revisited.
We don't lump everyone together: many of these sites do genuine work, with real people writing sincere analysis. The problem is more structural than that: the economics of crypto comparison, funded almost everywhere by affiliation, mechanically push toward promoting what pays rather than what matches the person's search. And, to our knowledge, none of these sites lets you trace an official piece of information back to its source in one click, to verify it yourself rather than having to trust it.
03How Uncrypt addresses that
Against the first problem, ranking biased by affiliation, we made a structural choice: Uncrypt assigns no overall score, no "best platform" style ranking. By default, platforms appear alphabetically: you sort and filter by your own criteria (fees, regulatory status, offering, payment methods...). An affiliate link may exist on some listings, but it has no influence on display order: a platform with no commercial partnership appears at exactly the same level as a partner platform.
Against the second problem, the impossibility of verifying, every piece of data shown on Uncrypt comes from an identified primary source: the CASP register kept by ESMA at European level, complemented where needed by national registers, and the official pricing pages published by the platforms themselves. Every listing shows the date of our last verification and, where possible, a direct link to the source. When information has no reliable primary source, we don't invent it: we leave the field empty rather than show an approximate figure.
The result isn't that we tell you which platform to choose. It's that we give you the means to decide for yourself, with verified, dated and sourced information, based on your own needs and your own preferences, not ours.
Our initial goal was to be ready for 1st July 2026, alongside MiCA's entry into application. We took longer than planned, six months in total between the start of the project and launch, because we preferred to delay the release rather than put out an approximate tool on a subject where approximation genuinely costs people money.
Our neutrality isn't a marketing promise we're asking you to take on faith: it's a public, documented methodology that we apply even when it costs us affiliate revenue.
04The team
Uncrypt is founded by Alex, in crypto personally since 2018 and professionally since 2022. Certified in blockchain technology and holder of the AMF certification (finance / wealth management), Alex has built a dual expertise: technical understanding of blockchain on one side, regulatory and financial reading on the other, two angles rarely combined in a single person in the sector.
Passionate about crypto and the technology behind it, it was by facing this frustrating and opaque platform search himself that Alex wanted to build the tool he wished he'd had at the time.