Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago Bakkt Bakkt, created in 2018 by Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE), is no longer the consumer platform of its early days: after selling its loyalty arm (October 2025) it is a digital asset infrastructure company led by CEO Akshay Naheta. It is not a retail exchange available in the EU. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago BW.com BW.com is a POS mining community and an exchange of digital asset contracts based on the mining pool. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago BTSE BTSE is a crypto exchange founded in 2018, today led by CEO Henry Liu and with its corporate base in the British Virgin Islands. It does not appear among the MiCA-authorised CASPs: it is not an EU-regulated option. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago Anycoin Direct Anycoin Direct was a Dutch crypto broker active since 2013 and shut down in 2025: its EU customers were migrated to the Dutch platform Finst, which took over its business. The domain anycoindirect.eu now redirects to finst.com. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago Amplify Exchange Amplify Exchange was a "commission-free" crypto brokerage project launched at the end of 2019 by Justin Tabb, previously the founder of Substratum. The service is no longer operational and its domain today redirects to a site that has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago AAX AAX (Atom Asset Exchange) was a Hong Kong exchange that collapsed in November 2022, just days after the failure of FTX: withdrawals frozen, executives arrested and around two million users left without access to their funds. It is no longer operational. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 6 years ago Riccardo Curatolo Riccardo Curatolo is an economist and digital entrepreneur, founder and editorial director of SpazioCrypto, an information platform on cryptocurrencies and Web3 active in nine languages. He is also the creator of the Sicily Crypto Summit. Founders
