Slovakia implements MiCA directly as an EU Regulation, with Národná banka Slovenska (NBS) designated as the sole national competent authority for crypto-asset service provider (CASP) authorisation and for issuer authorisation of asset-referenced tokens. Act No. 248/2024 Coll. (effective 30 December 2024) supplies the national implementing/enabling provisions (supervisory powers, sanctions, enforcement) required to operationalise MiCA domestically. As the EU-wide MiCA transitional/grandfathering period ended on 1 July 2026, any entity providing crypto-asset services to Slovak clients must now hold full MiCA authorisation from NBS (or be passported from another Member State); unauthorised provision is a breach of EU law subject to NBS enforcement action.
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Slovakia applies the MiCA taxonomy directly: asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and e-money tokens (EMTs) are subject to dedicated issuer-authorisation regimes (NBS is competent for ART issuer authorisation), while other crypto-assets (including most utility tokens) fall under the general Title II crypto-asset regime. NFTs are presumptively out of scope unless issued as part of a fungible-like series or collection, in which case MiCA can still apply.
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No Slovakia-specific licensing regime for staking, mining, node operation, or validator activity was identified beyond the general MiCA CASP service perimeter (Article 3 MiCA), which only captures such activities where they constitute a client-facing crypto-asset service. At EU level, the European Commission's Article 142 MiCAR report found DeFi (decentralised lending, DEXs) remains a comparatively niche phenomenon and is not yet subject to bespoke regulatory treatment; no Slovakia-specific DeFi rulemaking was identified.
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ARTs and EMTs offered to the public or admitted to trading in Slovakia are subject to MiCA Titles III and IV, directly effective as EU law. NBS is the competent authority for authorising ART issuance in Slovakia and for related white-paper approval; EMT issuance requires prior authorisation as a credit institution or e-money institution. Issuers must hold reserve assets in low-risk, segregated form and honour redemption at par value on request, and must maintain recovery/redemption plans.
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CASPs authorised in or passporting into Slovakia must maintain effective complaint-handling procedures under MiCA Article 71; NBS operates a dedicated complaint-submission channel for crypto-asset matters. Marketing communications for ARTs/EMTs must be consistent with the published crypto-asset white paper. The Joint ESAs (EBA/ESMA/EIOPA) have issued Slovak-language consumer warnings clarifying that MiCA protections do not extend to deposit-guarantee-style compensation schemes and apply only to the specific authorised EU legal entity.
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Slovakia amended its Income Tax Act in 2023 to introduce a preferential 7% tax rate on gains from the sale of virtual currency held for more than one year prior to disposal; gains on virtual currency held for one year or less are taxed alongside other ordinary taxable income at standard progressive rates. Reporting for these amounts follows the general Slovak personal income tax return process. Primary Slovak legislative text (slov-lex citation for the specific amending act/effective date) could not be directly verified in this pass and is sourced here via secondary reporting only.
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A CASP authorised by NBS under MiCA benefits from the EU-wide passporting regime, permitting cross-border service provision to clients in other EEA Member States without separate host-state authorisation, subject to elevated supervisory scrutiny for CASPs with significant cross-border user bases. Entities that relied on Slovakia's national-law transitional/grandfathering arrangements prior to 1 July 2026 did not benefit from an EU passport and could only serve cross-border clients where compliant with both home and host Member State law; that transitional window has now closed EU-wide. Cross-border crypto-asset transfers involving Slovak CASPs are also subject to Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (crypto Travel Rule), which applies without any transitional exemption.
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AML/CFT obligations for Slovak crypto-asset service providers (customer due diligence, sanctions screening, suspicious-transaction reporting, record-keeping) are governed by Slovakia's AML/CFT Act (as amended, effective 15 January 2025) with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as supervisor, running in parallel to NBS's prudential CASP supervision under Act No. 248/2024 Coll. This module is subscribed from the shared Financial Integrity Module (FIM) aml_ctf baseline at the crypto-consumer level; no aml_cft_regime claims are produced in this crypto-consumer baseline to avoid duplication. FATF/MONEYVAL follow-up review (2025) noted residual technical-compliance deficiencies in Slovakia's VASP-specific AML/CFT framework, including gaps in market-entry and risk-based supervision requirements, which are disclosed here only as disambiguation context for the financial_integrity overlap.
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