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# Poland Crypto & Digital Asset Regulation

schema crypto-v2.0.0
trajectory: not yet assessed in transition overlaps: [Sentinel (AML/CFT)](https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/poland/), [World Payments](https://payments.gi/jurisdictions/poland/)

Last updated 2026-11-04 · 7 categories · 41 sourced
findings · 41 sources in the cumulative register

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Evidence re-verified: 2026-11-04 · Position last changed: 2026-11-04 · Record history & provenance ▾ Methodology & record provenance: Module confidence is derived from the underlying claims (source tier and primary excerpt retention), while statutory legal force is tracked independently.

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Framework posture In transition 7 of 9 modules populated · AI-synthesised · Tier-1/2 verified

Lead supervisory authority CoinDesk Primary statutory & supervisory perimeter

Next milestone (> 2026-10-26) 2026-Q4 Crypto-Asset Market Act fourth legislative attempt expected

Module coverage & confidence 7 / 9 modules assessed 0 Confirmed · 7 Probable · 0 Uncertain · 2 Not yet assessed

7 Categories

0 Moved this cycle 0 Key judgments 2 Open gaps 41 Findings

5 Tier-1 sources

Confidence mix 7 unpopulated
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Law made at European Economic Area (Bloc) level that applies in Poland is covered once, on the [European Economic Area (Bloc)](/jurisdictions/european-economic-area-bloc/) page. This page covers Poland’s own layer: implementation, national authorities, national options and local enforcement.

## Jurisdiction lead brief

###### Latest update · 4 November 2026

#### Lead Signal

Poland remains the only European Union member state without a national statute implementing the authorisation framework that the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation requires member states to operate. The Sejm's failure on 4 September 2026 to override the President's veto of the Crypto-Asset Market Act confirmed that the Financial Supervision Authority still has no statutory power to accept or process domestic applications from crypto-asset service providers. This is not a new gap: it extends a vacuum that opened on 1 July 2026, when the transitional registration window for legacy virtual-asset-service registrants under the Regulation's Article 143(3) lapsed with no domestic successor regime in place. Three successive presidential vetoes and a failed override vote now stand between Poland and a functioning national licensing gateway.

#### Other Developments

With no domestic gateway operating, cross-border passporting under Article 65 of the Regulation is the only confirmed route by which a crypto-asset service provider can serve the Polish market, relying on an authorisation granted by another member state's regulator rather than by the Financial Supervision Authority itself. Reporting suggests a further government-drafted version of the Crypto-Asset Market Act, this time designating the Financial Supervision Authority as the competent authority, was being prepared for Cabinet consideration in the final quarter of 2026. Neither its content nor its progress through government has been independently confirmed, and whether any further vote or veto-override attempt has occurred since the 4 September defeat is likewise unverified at this time.

#### Cross-Monitor Connections

No overlap with adjacent monitors has been identified in the material reviewed.

#### Outlook

The near-term picture turns on whether the reported Cabinet-stage draft advances to a Sejm vote before the end of the year, and on whether a fourth version can attract enough cross-party support to survive a presidential veto where its three predecessors did not. Until a domestic statute is enacted and in force, firms serving Polish customers will continue to rely on passported authorisations from other member states, and the Financial Supervision Authority will continue to operate without a domestic licensing function despite being the regulation's evident intended supervisor.

4 earlier updates not shown here.

###### Standing brief · as of 25 August 2026

Written before the update above. Where they differ, the update is the more recent position.

#### Lead Signal

Poland's domestic crypto-asset supervisory pathway is now closed rather than merely delayed. The Polish Crypto-Assets Market Act, which would have empowered KNF to receive and decide Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) applications under MiCA, was vetoed by the President for a second time on 12 February 2026, leaving no domestic legal basis for KNF to designate CASPs. At the same time, the transitional arrangement that allowed VASPs registered before 30 December 2024 to continue operating under prior national rules expired on 1 July 2026, a deadline that has now passed without replacement CASP legislation in force. Both findings are assessed with High confidence, corroborated across two independent Tier-2 Polish legal-practitioner sources describing the same veto sequence and deadline structure. The only currently functioning route for a crypto-asset service provider to lawfully serve Polish clients is MiCA Article 65 passporting: CASP authorisation obtained in another EU Member State passports into Poland, while no domestic Polish authorisation route exists for entities seeking to establish fresh CASP status inside Poland itself. The compounding structural nature of this finding — two vetoes plus a passed transitional deadline — distinguishes it from an ordinary implementation delay; this cycle's evidence does not establish the substance of the President's objections in either veto instance, nor whether a revised bill is currently before the Sejm, leaving the timeline for resolution unclear.

#### Other Developments

EU Travel Rule obligations remain in force independently of the licensing gap. Polish VASPs and intermediary VASPs have been required since 30 December 2024 to hold and transmit originator and beneficiary information under the EU Travel Rule (Regulation (EU) 2023/1113), including identifying ownership and control of unhosted wallets. This obligation is binding and in force regardless of the domestic CASP-authorisation vacuum, meaning existing VASPs whose transitional registration has lapsed remain subject to Travel Rule compliance even though their broader domestic licensing basis has expired.

Poland's autonomous sanctions practice extends to crypto-linked entities. Poland added seven entities forming part of a cryptocurrency-linked network to its autonomous national Russia sanctions list on 28 May 2026. This finding is assessed with Assessed-tier confidence, sourced to a single Tier-3 source; it illustrates that Poland's national sanctions-designation activity now explicitly reaches into the digital-asset space, at the same time as the jurisdiction's domestic crypto-supervisory capacity sits in a structural gap. The customer-typology tag attached to both the licensing-gap and sanctions-nexus findings is VASP counterparty, indicating that the practical exposure of this cycle's Poland findings concentrates on entities transacting with or through Polish VASPs, rather than on retail end-users directly, since EU-passported CASP service remains available to Polish clients regardless of the domestic vacuum.

#### Cross-Monitor Connections

This cycle's crypto-licensing and cross-border-transfer findings for Poland overlap directly with the financial-integrity monitor's own coverage of the same underlying facts: the CASP-Act veto and VASP-registration expiry, and the cryptocurrency-linked sanctions designation, are tracked independently by both monitors from their respective analytical angles. The Travel Rule finding is also relevant beyond the crypto monitor's own scope: originator/beneficiary identification obligations for unhosted-wallet transactions are a control that other financial-integrity-adjacent monitors would reasonably expect to see referenced when assessing Polish VASP counterparty risk. No world-payments-specific or advennt-specific overlap is asserted this cycle beyond what those monitors' own findings independently establish.

#### Outlook

The near-term question is legislative: whether a revised Crypto-Assets Market Act can clear both the Sejm and presidential signature after two vetoes, and which body would be designated as the MiCA competent authority if it does. This cycle's evidence does not establish what interim enforcement posture KNF or GIIF is taking toward VASPs whose transitional registration lapsed on 1 July 2026, nor whether either authority has issued interim guidance for the post-1-July-2026 legal gap. A primary-source KNF or GIIF communication addressing either question would be the single most valuable addition to next cycle's evidence base. Until either gap closes, Poland's crypto-licensing vacuum should be read as structural, with EU passporting under MiCA Article 65 the only confirmed functioning route to lawfully serve Polish crypto clients, and Travel Rule and sanctions-screening obligations continuing to apply to Polish VASPs independently of their domestic licensing status.

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Key regulatory facts for Poland Regulatory Dimension Poland Standing Position

Jurisdiction Poland (PL)

Regulatory Scope Crypto & Digital Asset Regulation (7 modules, 41 sourced findings)

Crypto Licensing Poland remains the only EU member state without a national MiCA-implementing statute.

Token Classification MiCA's EU-level taxonomy (asset-referenced tokens, e-money tokens, other crypto-assets/utility tokens, and NFT carve-outs) is directly applicable law in Poland as an EU Regulation, but absent a designated Polish...

On-Chain Activity Regime Neither MiCA nor Polish national law imposes an activity-specific licensing regime for staking, DeFi/DEX operation, mining, or node/validator activity; MiCA's scope is limited to crypto-asset issuance and CASP...

Stablecoin Regime EMT issuance already falls under Poland's existing e-money supervisory framework administered by KNF, per KNF's own confirmation.

Primary Instruments Cited CoinDesk, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), The Block, BB Trade Estonia OÜ (Zondacrypto), Existing Polish VASPs (registered before 30 December 2024)

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### Poland: C1 Crypto LicensingRedEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Poland remains the only EU member state without a national MiCA-implementing statute. The President's second counter-bill was transmitted to the Sejm Marshal on 8 September 2026 following the Sejm's failed override of the third presidential veto on 4 September 2026. A fourth government draft is reportedly expected at an October 2026 Council of Ministers sitting, unconfirmed this cycle.

Open gap — crypto-int-1 Whether any further Sejm vote or veto-override attempt on the Crypto-Asset Market Act has occurred since 4 September 2026 was not verified. no under-indexing note recorded

Open gap — crypto-int-2 The content and progress of the further government draft reportedly under Cabinet consideration for October 2026 was not independently verified. no under-indexing note recorded

Horizon · 2026-Q4 (± six months) Crypto-Asset Market Act fourth legislative attempt expected Proposed · Tier 3 source

Horizon · 2026-Q4 (± a quarter) Fourth government Crypto-Asset Market Act draft expected Proposed · Tier 2 source

Horizon · 2027-Q1 (± more than a year) Fourth Crypto-Asset Market Act draft before Sejm Proposed · Tier 3 source

Horizon · 2026-Q4 (± six months) Further government draft of Crypto-Asset Market Act under Cabinet preparation Proposed · Tier 3 source

#### Crypto Licensing

Poland's domestic crypto-asset licensing pathway is now structurally absent rather than merely delayed. The Polish Crypto-Assets Market Act — the legislation that would empower KNF to receive and decide Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) applications under MiCA — was vetoed by the President for a second time on 12 February 2026. This followed an earlier veto, and the evidence located this cycle does not establish the substance of the President's objections in either instance, nor whether a revised bill is currently before the Sejm. This finding is assessed with High confidence, corroborated by two independent Tier-2 Polish legal-practitioner sources describing the same veto sequence and dates.

Compounding the legislative vacuum, existing Polish VASPs registered before 30 December 2024 were permitted to continue operating under prior rules only until 1 July 2026 — a transitional deadline that has now passed without replacement CASP legislation in force. New VASP register entries have been frozen since 30 December 2024, meaning no new domestic VASP registrations have been possible for well over a year, and existing registrants' transitional legal basis has now also lapsed. The combined effect of the second veto and the expired transitional window is that Poland currently has no operating domestic crypto-asset licensing or supervisory pathway at all.

Against this domestic vacuum, MiCA Article 65 passporting remains, on the evidence located this cycle, the only currently functioning route by which a crypto-asset service provider can lawfully provide services targeting Polish clients: CASP authorisation obtained in another EU Member State passports into Poland under MiCA, entirely independent of Poland's own stalled domestic legislation. This creates a clear market-structure asymmetry between entities already CASP-authorised elsewhere in the EU, which retain full access to the Polish market via passporting, and entities seeking fresh Polish-domiciled authorisation, or existing Polish VASPs whose transitional registration has now lapsed, which face a legal-basis vacuum with no confirmed resolution timeline.

The traffic-light assessment for this module is red, reflecting a live regulatory-gap condition rather than a stable or merely cautionary amber posture: the transitional legal basis for existing VASPs has expired, and no replacement domestic licensing procedure is in force. This is a materially different condition from a jurisdiction where licensing is simply slow or under-resourced; it is one where the domestic legal mechanism itself does not currently exist.

#### Outlook

Two evidentiary gaps bear directly on this module's trajectory: which body would be designated as the MiCA competent authority if or when a revised Crypto-Assets Market Act is enacted, and what interim enforcement posture KNF is taking toward VASPs whose transitional registration lapsed on 1 July 2026. Neither was established in this cycle's evidence. Separately, whether GIIF or KNF has issued any interim guidance for VASPs operating in the post-1-July-2026 legal gap was also not established. Until a revised Act clears the Sejm and receives presidential signature, or until KNF issues interim guidance addressing the gap, Poland's crypto-licensing posture should be read as structurally, not transitionally, closed at the domestic level.

Read full sub-brief · 493 words Periodic update · new data 2026-10-25

#### Crypto Licensing

Poland's absence of a domestic authorisation route for crypto-asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation has now persisted well past the point at which the transitional arrangement that had been shielding previously registered entities expired. That transitional period, available under Article 143(3) of the Regulation, ended on 1 July 2026. From that date, in the absence of a national designated competent authority, entities that had been operating under the transitional virtual-asset-service-provider registration regime lost the ability to continue doing so on that basis. This left a clear compliance cliff-edge for any entity relying on the transitional registration rather than a fresh MiCA authorisation.

The statute needed to close this gap, by designating the Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) as Poland's MiCA competent authority, has been vetoed by the President on three occasions, the most recent veto falling on 11 June 2026. An attempt in the Sejm to override that veto failed on 4 September 2026. A fourth legislative attempt is now before the Sejm. Reported details of this fourth draft describe a materially escalated penalty structure relative to what earlier attempts are understood to have proposed: administrative fines of up to PLN 30 million or 5% of annual revenue for breaches committed by authorised crypto-asset service providers, fines of up to PLN 20 million or custodial sentences of up to 8 years for unauthorised crypto-asset-service activity, and a fine for obstructing a KNF inspection raised to PLN 25 million. These figures derive from a single press source reporting on a non-binding draft bill, and given both the single-source basis and the bill's current non-binding, pre-enactment status, they should be treated as indicative of legislative intent rather than as settled law, and are held at an uncertain rather than probable confidence tier accordingly.

In the interim, KNF has confirmed that cross-border provision of crypto-asset services into Poland under MiCA passporting, specifically Article 65 of the Regulation, remains available notwithstanding the absence of any domestic authorisation route. This means firms authorised in another EU member state can continue lawfully serving Polish customers through passporting, even though no domestic Polish authorisation pathway exists for firms wishing to be authorised in Poland itself. Reported market practice bears this out: there is evidence of Polish-serving crypto operators pursuing MiCA authorisation specifically through subsidiaries established in other EU member states, precisely in order to access the Polish market lawfully via the passporting route given the continued absence of a domestic licensing option.

A related but narrower classification gap sits alongside the core CASP authorisation problem. KNF's only live MiCA competence in Poland currently concerns electronic money tokens, and that competence exists solely because KNF already supervises electronic money institutions under pre-existing law; it does not extend to asset-referenced tokens or to crypto-asset services generally. Issuing an asset-referenced token or an e-money token is not covered by a standard MiCA crypto-asset-service-provider licence and requires separate MiCA authorisation specific to token issuance; no Polish authorisation of this kind has occurred, since no competent authority exists in Poland for this limb of the Regulation either.

#### Outlook

Whether the fourth legislative attempt succeeds where three prior attempts have failed is the central open question shaping this domain. No outcome should be assumed given the consistent pattern of presidential resistance to prior drafts. Until the bill clears both legislative passage and presidential assent, the practical position for the market will likely remain unchanged: no domestic CASP authorisation route, continued reliance on Article 65 passporting for lawful market access, and no domestic competent authority for asset-referenced-token or general crypto-asset-service authorisation beyond the narrow electronic-money-token channel. No T1 primary sources, such as KNF's own published statements or the EUR-Lex text of the Regulation as applied domestically, were directly retrieved; confirmation of the fourth bill's exact terms and progress from a primary legislative source remains an outstanding item for the next research cycle.

3 earlier distinct update(s) Periodic update · new data 2026-10-18

#### Crypto Licensing

Poland has no domestic statute designating any authority with CASP-authorisation or enforcement powers under MiCA. The Crypto-Asset Market Act, the bill that would establish this framework, has been vetoed three times by the President. A Sejm vote to override the most recent veto took place on 4 September 2026 and failed, with 241 votes for and 198 against out of 442 voting, 25 votes short of the 266-vote threshold required for an override. In direct response, the President transmitted a second counter-bill to the Sejm Marshal on 8 September 2026. This second presidential bill is built largely on the government's own twice-vetoed text, but diverges on two provisions carrying direct supervisory weight: the duration for which a supervisory authority could block a suspect account (the presidential text proposes 3 months, versus 6 months in the government's version), and the cap on supervisory fees chargeable to CASPs (0.1% versus 0.4% of average revenues in the government's version).

The practical consequence of this three-times-vetoed, now twice-countered legislative standoff is that Poland has gone without a functioning domestic CASP licensing regime through the entire period in which MiCA's transitional provisions were winding down elsewhere. Specifically, MiCA's Article 143(3) transitional treatment for entities already registered in Poland's pre-MiCA virtual-currency register (RDWW) before 30 December 2024 ended Union-wide on 1 July 2026. Because Poland never enacted implementing legislation, there is no domestic pathway allowing an RDWW-registered virtual-currency business to convert that registration into a MiCA CASP authorisation. Entities that were operating lawfully under the old national virtual-currency-business registration regime therefore face a cliff-edge: the transitional cover that let them continue trading while MiCA bedded in has lapsed, and no domestic authorisation route has opened to replace it.

Press reporting from late September 2026 indicates the government intends to bring a fourth version of the Crypto-Asset Market Act to a Council of Ministers sitting in October 2026, described as a tightened draft carrying enhanced penalties relative to earlier versions. This remains, as of this cycle, an unconfirmed intention: no source located this cycle confirms that the October sitting took place or discloses the draft's actual content. Given the pattern of the preceding three attempts, each of which fell to a presidential veto, there is no basis in the available evidence to forecast whether a fourth attempt would fare differently, particularly since the core points of disagreement (account-blocking duration, supervisory fee levels) remain unresolved between the branches.

No PL-specific national guidance elaborating MiCA's token-classification tests, nor any dedicated national MiCA-implementing statute establishing KNF's broader CASP-supervision competence, was located this cycle; KNF's existing competence over e-money-token issuers derives from its pre-existing financial-instrument and e-money supervisory remit rather than from crypto-specific national legislation. This underlines that the licensing gap is not confined to new entrants seeking first-time authorisation — it extends to the absence of a clearly designated authority for the custody, exchange and trading-platform activities that would fall under a CASP authorisation once one becomes available.

#### Outlook

Whether Poland closes its CASP-authorisation gap turns on the fate of the reported fourth government draft, which press sources describe as expected at a Council of Ministers sitting in October 2026 but which remains unconfirmed as tabled. The specific terms on which any future version resolves the account-blocking-duration and supervisory-fee-cap disputes will determine the practical shape of whatever enforcement regime eventually emerges. In the meantime, the lapse of the MiCA Article 143(3) transitional treatment on 1 July 2026 leaves previously RDWW-registered virtual-currency businesses without a confirmed lawful operating basis inside the MiCA framework, a condition that persists for as long as the Crypto-Asset Market Act remains unenacted.

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-11

#### Crypto Licensing

Poland has no domestic CASP authorisation pathway. Entities that were on the RDWW virtual-currency register before 30 December 2024 could continue operating only until the MiCA Article 143(3) transitional deadline of 1 July 2026, or until obtaining CASP authorisation, whichever came first. That transitional deadline has now passed without a functioning domestic authorisation mechanism in place, because the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) has not been designated as the competent authority empowered to accept CASP authorisation applications. The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (UKNF) has confirmed that this deadline cannot be extended by national law or by KNF decision, which means the gap is not an administrative delay capable of being smoothed over by regulatory discretion, but a structural absence of enabling legislation.

The legislative history behind this gap is one of repeated failure to enact. A national Crypto-Asset Market Act was vetoed by the President for a third time, and a subsequent override vote in the Sejm failed by 25 votes. On 8 September 2026, the President submitted a second presidential draft of the Act to the Sejm. That draft proposes administrative fines of up to PLN 20 million for unauthorised CASP activity, and would grant KNF powers to block accounts and transactions, as well as to order domain blocking, with a 48-hour compliance window imposed on telecoms undertakings to give effect to such blocking orders. None of these enforcement provisions is currently in force; they exist only within a bill still before the Sejm, and their eventual form may change before enactment.

Pending enactment, UKNF has adopted an informal supervisory tolerance toward entities that held legacy VASP registrations, allowing them to continue limited operation while the legislative process continues. This tolerance is discretionary rather than a legal entitlement, and firms relying on it face genuine exposure should UKNF's posture change or should the gap between MiCA's directly-applicable obligations and Poland's domestic enforcement machinery be tested in a specific case.

Within this general vacuum, one authorisation route does function: e-money-token issuance. KNF's competence over e-money-token issuers is derived from its pre-existing supervision of financial instruments and e-money institutions, not from the unenacted Crypto-Asset Market Act, so EMT issuers today have an operative domestic pathway that asset-referenced-token issuers and other CASP activities do not.

#### Outlook

The second presidential draft, submitted 8 September 2026 and reported to carry approximately 90% of the provisions previously agreed in earlier legislative attempts, is the development that will determine when — or whether — Poland acquires a functioning domestic CASP authorisation regime. Passage would designate KNF as the market supervisor and establish the administrative fine and account/domain-blocking enforcement powers described above. Until then, the authorisation vacuum persists and firms seeking lawful entry into crypto-asset services in Poland, outside the narrow EMT pathway, have no domestic authorisation route to rely on.

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-05

#### Crypto Licensing

Poland's crypto-licensing position this cycle is defined by the persistence, and the renewed legislative attempt to resolve, a national MiCA authorisation gap. Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 Article 59, Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorisation must be granted by a home-member-state competent authority; Poland has not enacted the national legislation needed to empower the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) to receive, assess or grant such applications. This is not a case of KNF declining or being unwilling to take on the role — every version of the proposed legislation designates KNF as the intended authority — it is a case of the designating statute itself failing to pass through Poland's legislative process.

The most recent failure came on 4 September 2026, when the Sejm's attempt to override President Nawrocki's veto of the Crypto-Asset Market Act fell twenty-five votes short of the 266 needed under the three-fifths override threshold (241 votes in favour were recorded). This was the third presidential veto of the legislation to survive an override attempt, and it comes more than two months after MiCA's transitional period for existing national crypto-asset regimes expired on 1 July 2026 — meaning Poland has now operated for over two months with no domestic MiCA CASP gateway of any kind, where the transitional allowance that might previously have covered the gap has itself lapsed.

The president did not let the failed override stand as the final word. On 8 September 2026, four days later, he submitted a second compromise draft act, described in reporting as built largely on the government's own text — the same text he had three times vetoed. This detail matters for reading the dispute correctly: a compromise draft that tracks closely to the government's position suggests the disagreement has likely narrowed to specific contested provisions within the bill, rather than reflecting any fundamental disagreement over whether Poland should designate a MiCA competent authority at all. That draft had not been enacted at the time this research pass was conducted, so the authorisation gap remains open and unresolved.

In the interim, KNF is not wholly without MiCA-relevant authority — it retains a narrower competence over e-money token (EMT) issuers, exercised through its pre-existing financial-instrument supervisory powers rather than through the stalled Crypto-Asset Market Act. This is a meaningful distinction for market participants: an EMT issuer operating in Poland today has a KNF supervisory touchpoint, while a CASP seeking the broader authorisation MiCA otherwise provides for (custody, trading platform operation, exchange services, and the like) does not currently have any domestic Polish authorisation route at all.

The consequence for Poland's roughly 2,000 crypto-asset entities, per commentary reviewed this cycle, is a forced choice: seek authorisation from another EEA competent authority — Lithuania and Cyprus are the two jurisdictions named in current commentary as practical destinations — and rely on cross-border passporting to continue serving the Polish market from outside; or continue operating within Poland without a MiCA authorisation, a position of uncertain durability as enforcement expectations under MiCA mature across the bloc; or cease MiCA-covered activity altogether. None of the sourcing reviewed this cycle indicates which of these paths is currently dominant among affected firms, which is itself a notable information gap going into future cycles.

#### Outlook

The regulatory horizon tracked this cycle anticipates a fourth legislative attempt at designating KNF as the national MiCA competent authority, expected as scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2026. Given that three previous attempts have each ended in presidential veto, with two overridden-vote failures confirmed in the available sourcing, confidence in this timeline should remain measured — the assessment here is probable, not confirmed, and no primary legislative-calendar source was retrieved this cycle to corroborate the date beyond secondary reporting. Should the fourth attempt also stall, the gap between Poland's roughly 2,000 affected entities and a functioning domestic authorisation channel will likely continue widening relative to the rest of the EU, where MiCA regimes are maturing on schedule.

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Sources and findings (12)
- T3[CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/07/01/why-poland-is-the-only-eu-country-where-crypto-firms-can-t-get-a-mica-license) — As of the MiCA transitional deadline (July 1, 2026), Poland remains the only EU country without a functioning domestic licensing regime because the national implementing act has not entered into force, leaving about 2,000 local firms in regulatory limbo.
- T3[CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/07/01/why-poland-is-the-only-eu-country-where-crypto-firms-can-t-get-a-mica-license) — Issuers of electronic money tokens (EMTs) in Poland are the sole exception to the competent-authority gap, remaining supervised under Poland's pre-existing e-money regulatory framework rather than the pending MiCA CASP regime.
- T1[European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)](https://www.esma.europa.eu/esmas-activities/digital-finance-and-innovation/markets-crypto-assets-regulation-mica) — MiCA's EU-wide grandfathering clause (Article 143(3)) allows entities that provided crypto-asset services under applicable national law before 30 December 2024 to continue until 1 July 2026 or until granted/refused MiCA authorisation.
- T3[CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/07/01/why-poland-is-the-only-eu-country-where-crypto-firms-can-t-get-a-mica-license) — The thrice-vetoed Polish implementing bill would empower KNF to authorise and supervise CASPs while granting it powers to freeze customer funds for months and block websites before companies exhaust legal appeals — provisions criticized as going beyond MiCA itself.
- T4[The Block](https://www.theblock.co/post/400947/poland-lawmakers-debate-crypto-bills-as-pis-party-submits-separate-ban-proposal) — A separate bill introduced by four Law and Justice (PiS) MPs seeks to ban cryptoasset activity entirely within Poland; the Sejm Speaker has said this proposal will only be processed after the four primary regulatory bills are concluded.
- T3[BB Trade Estonia OÜ (Zondacrypto)](https://kancelaria-skarbiec.pl/en/zondacrypto-withdrawal-crisis/) — Event: insolvency. Party: BB Trade Estonia OÜ (Zondacrypto operator), incorporated Estonia, serving PL customers. Stage: bankruptcy declared (completed) by Harju County Court, Tallinn, 27 Aug 2026; creditor-claims window closes 27 Oct 2026. Amount: losses estimated by PL prosecutors (reported, not disclosed) at no less than PLN 350 million.
- T2 · Switalski Law[Existing Polish VASPs (registered before 30 December 2024)](https://switalski.law/crypto-license/) — May continue operating under prior rules only until 1 July 2026, a deadline that has now passed without replacement CASP legislation in force
- T2 · Woźniak Legal[Polish Crypto-Assets Market Act](https://wozniaklegal.com/en/news-and-insight/500/polands-mica-deadline-looms-no-casp-law-no-licenses-after-1-july-2026.html) — Vetoed by the President for a second time on 12 February 2026, leaving no domestic CASP-designation legal basis for KNF
- T2 · Switalski Law[MiCA Article 65 passporting](https://switalski.law/crypto-license/) — CASP authorisation obtained in another EU Member State passports into Poland under MiCA Article 65, remaining the only currently functioning route to lawfully provide crypto-asset services targeting Polish clients
- T3[Poland - Crypto-Asset Market Act (draft)](https://switalski.law/crypto-license/) — The Sejm's failure to override the President's veto on 4 September 2026 left KNF without statutory power to accept or process domestic CASP authorisation applications.
- T3[Fourth Crypto-Asset Market Act draft (presidential)](https://cyberdefence24.pl/polityka-i-prawo/polska/prezydent-wraca-z-ustawa-o-kryptoaktywach) — Administrative fines up to PLN 30 million or 5% of annual revenue for CASP breaches; up to PLN 20 million or 8 years' imprisonment for unauthorised crypto-asset-service activity; fine for obstructing KNF inspection raised to PLN 25 million.
- T3[Poland / MiCA Art 143(3) transitional regime](https://switalski.law/crypto-license/) — MiCA Art 143(3) transitional period for Polish VASP-registered entities ended 1 July 2026; absent a national designated competent authority, those entities lost the ability to operate under the transitional regime from that date.

### Poland: C2 Token ClassificationAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

MiCA's EU-level taxonomy (asset-referenced tokens, e-money tokens, other crypto-assets/utility tokens, and NFT carve-outs) is directly applicable law in Poland as an EU Regulation, but absent a designated Polish competent authority, day-to-day classification enforcement for categories other than EMTs is not yet operative domestically.

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### Poland: C3 On-Chain Activity RegimeRedEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Neither MiCA nor Polish national law imposes an activity-specific licensing regime for staking, DeFi/DEX operation, mining, or node/validator activity; MiCA's scope is limited to crypto-asset issuance and CASP services, so on-chain activity regulation remains a coverage gap in Poland as in most of the EU.

C3 · On-Chain Activity — Full Module Record 0 sub-modules · 180 words · 1 traced claims · Re-verified 2026-11-04

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### Poland: C4 Stablecoin RegimeAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

EMT issuance already falls under Poland's existing e-money supervisory framework administered by KNF, per KNF's own confirmation. Asset-referenced token (ART) issuance authorisation, reserve, redemption, and disclosure obligations under MiCA Titles III/IV are directly applicable EU law, but Poland has not designated a competent authority to authorise or supervise ART issuers, creating a domestic enforcement gap for that category.

C4 · Stablecoins & EMTs — Full Module Record 0 sub-modules · 180 words · 4 traced claims · Re-verified 2026-11-04

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### Poland: C5 Consumer ProtectionRedEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

MiCA's consumer-protection provisions (marketing restrictions, risk disclosure, custody segregation, complaint handling) are directly applicable EU law but not enforceable by a Polish supervisor for non-EMT crypto-assets pending the national implementing act. The vetoed Polish bill would additionally have granted KNF enhanced enforcement tools — including multi-month fund freezes and pre-appeal website blocking — that critics, including the President, characterized as disproportionate to consumer-protection aims.

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Sources and findings (4)
- T3[CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/07/01/why-poland-is-the-only-eu-country-where-crypto-firms-can-t-get-a-mica-license) — The vetoed implementing bill would allow KNF to freeze customer funds for months and block company websites before legal appeals are exhausted, a provision President Nawrocki argued posed a real threat to the freedom and property of Polish citizens.
- T1[EUR-Lex / Publications Office of the European Union](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/PL/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1114) — MiCA mandates that crypto-asset white papers contain clear, unambiguous risk statements and prohibits claims about the future value of a crypto-asset except as permitted by the Regulation.
- T3 · Eternity Law International[MiCA white-paper and risk-disclosure obligations](https://www.eternitylaw.com/news/poland-crypto-licensing-guide-2026-mica-casp-requirements-and-process/) — Applies to issuers and CASPs serving Polish clients notwithstanding the domestic CASP-designation vacuum
- T3[UOKiK / crypto marketing jurisdiction](https://globallawexperts.com/crypto-marketing-poland/) — UOKiK retains jurisdiction to apply Polish consumer-protection law to crypto marketing/promotions targeting Polish consumers irrespective of the provider's location or MiCA-passported status; there is no crypto-specific advertising-approval regime distinct from general consumer law.

### Poland: C6 Tax TreatmentAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Crypto taxation in the EU, including Poland, remains a member-state competence not harmonized by MiCA. VAT treatment of currency-like crypto exchange in the EU follows the CJEU's Hedqvist line of reasoning (exemption under Art. 135(1)(e) VAT Directive for services that function as means of payment). Separately, the EU's tax-transparency directive requires crypto-asset service providers to report transactions involving EU residents. This run's aggregated search did not surface a primary Ministry of Finance/Dziennik Ustaw citation confirming Poland's current specific PIT rate on virtual-currency disposals, so that narrower point is flagged for escalation rather than asserted as confirmed.

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### Poland: C7 Cross-Border TransferAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

MiCA passporting allows a CASP license issued in any EU/EEA state (including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) to serve the entire bloc; lacking domestic authorisation, Polish firms are seeking licenses in other member states (e.g., Lithuania, Latvia, Germany) and passporting back into Poland. Crypto-asset transfers handled by CASPs operating in Poland — including MiCA-grandfathered entities — are also subject to the EU Funds Transfer Regulation (2023/1113) travel-rule requirements.

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-11

#### Cross-Border Transfer

Two cross-border mechanisms operate in Poland independently of the domestic authorisation vacuum described under Crypto Licensing, because both derive directly from EU-level law rather than from the unenacted national Crypto-Asset Market Act. The first is the Travel Rule under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113, which has been in effect in Poland since 30 December 2024 and applies to crypto-asset transfers irrespective of the unresolved question of which Polish body, if any, is the designated CASP competent authority. Obligations under the Travel Rule bind Polish crypto-asset service providers and counterparties to transfers involving Poland regardless of the domestic licensing gap.

The second mechanism is inbound passporting. A CASP authorised in another EU or EEA Member State may offer crypto-asset services in Poland both before and after 1 July 2026, per UKNF's own stated position, reported secondhand via law-firm commentary rather than fetched directly from a UKNF primary publication this cycle. This means that while Poland itself has no mechanism to authorise a domestic CASP or to issue an outbound passport for a Polish-authorised firm, firms authorised elsewhere in the EEA retain an operative route to serve the Polish market under MiCA's passporting framework. The practical effect is a one-directional flow: Poland is a receiving jurisdiction for passported crypto-asset services but not, at present, an originating one.

This asymmetry is the direct consequence of the authorisation vacuum: because Poland has not designated a competent authority or enacted the national implementing Act, no Polish entity can be authorised as a CASP in the first place, and therefore none can exercise outbound passporting rights under MiCA Article 65. Firms already operating in Poland under legacy VASP registration, or planning entry via a Polish legal entity, do not have the option of domestic authorisation as a precursor to cross-border expansion; the practical route into the broader EEA market for a Poland-based crypto business runs instead through authorisation in another Member State first.

#### Outlook

The cross-border position will not change independently of the domestic licensing question. Enactment of the second presidential draft Crypto-Asset Market Act, and the resulting designation of KNF as competent authority, is the precondition for Poland to become an originating jurisdiction for MiCA passporting rather than only a receiving one. Until then, the Travel Rule continues to apply in full regardless of domestic authorisation status, and inbound passporting from other EEA states remains the operative cross-border channel into the Polish market.

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-05

#### Cross-Border Transfer

Poland's cross-border crypto-asset transfer position this cycle is shaped almost entirely by the asymmetry created by its own domestic MiCA authorisation gap. Under MiCA Article 65, a Crypto-Asset Service Provider already authorised by a competent authority in another EU member state may passport its services into a second member state through a straightforward notification mechanism, without needing a fresh authorisation in the receiving state. This mechanism remains fully available and unrestricted with respect to Poland: CASPs authorised elsewhere in the EU may passport into the Polish market notwithstanding Poland's own failure to designate a domestic competent authority. There is no indication in this cycle's sourcing that Poland's internal legislative standoff has in any way impeded in-bound passporting.

What the gap does affect is the outbound direction. A Polish-established crypto-asset provider cannot obtain a domestic CASP authorisation from the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) at this time, because KNF has not been designated as the national competent authority under the stalled Crypto-Asset Market Act — now three times vetoed by President Nawrocki, most recently surviving an override vote by twenty-five votes on 4 September 2026. A Polish-established entity therefore cannot use the standard route of obtaining Polish authorisation and then passporting outward to other EU states; it must instead seek authorisation directly from another EEA competent authority and operate from that base, with commentary this cycle naming Lithuania and Cyprus as practical choices for this purpose.

The net effect is a one-directional cross-border flow: crypto-asset services can move freely into Poland from CASPs authorised elsewhere in the EU, but cannot move outward from a Poland-originated authorisation, because no such authorisation currently exists to passport from. This is a structurally unusual position for an EU member state to be in more than two months after MiCA's transitional period lapsed on 1 July 2026, and it reflects the national designation failure rather than any restriction Poland has placed on cross-border activity as a matter of policy. Poland has not closed its market to inbound crypto-asset services; it has simply been unable, so far, to open the outbound channel that MiCA's passporting architecture is built to provide.

A further nuance worth noting is that KNF does retain narrower cross-border-relevant competence in one specific area: its existing supervision of e-money token (EMT) issuers, which it holds via pre-existing financial-instrument powers independent of the stalled Act. This does not change the broader CASP-passporting asymmetry described above, but it means the picture is not uniformly one of zero Polish-origin cross-border authority — EMT issuance supervision is a narrow exception operating alongside the broader gap.

For firms and counterparties assessing cross-border exposure to the Polish market, the operative fact to track is that inbound EU-authorised crypto-asset services face no Poland-specific obstacle, while Poland-established firms seeking to serve customers elsewhere in the EU must route through a foreign authorisation. This asymmetry is a direct and mechanical consequence of the authorisation gap addressed under crypto licensing above, rather than an independent cross-border-transfer policy choice by Polish authorities.

#### Outlook

The one-directional passporting asymmetry described here will persist for as long as Poland's domestic CASP authorisation gap remains open. A fourth legislative attempt, anticipated for the fourth quarter of 2026 per the regulatory horizon tracked this cycle, would — if enacted — close the outbound gap by finally empowering KNF to grant CASP authorisations that could themselves be passported to other EU states. Until then, Polish-established crypto-asset providers seeking EU-wide reach will likely continue relying on authorisation from other EEA competent authorities such as Lithuania or Cyprus, named in current commentary as practical venues, rather than on a domestic Polish authorisation that does not yet exist.

C7 · Cross-Border & Travel Rule — Full Module Record 0 sub-modules · 180 words · 7 traced claims · Re-verified 2026-11-04

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