W Group Strengthens Regulated Infrastructure As White Tech Wins Hanfa Approval Under Mica
WHITE TECH, a company within the W Group ecosystem and majority-owned by Volodymyr Nosov, founder and CEO of WhiteBIT, has received authorization from the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) to operate as a crypto-asset service provider (CASP) under the European Unions Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The approval, announced on 29 April 2026 from Zagreb, places White Tech among the earliest entrants into Croatias MiCA-regulated market and signals a deeper move by W Group into formally supervised European crypto infrastructure. What does the MiCA authorization allow White Tech to do? The HANFA license enables White Tech to offer a defined set of regulated crypto-asset services across the European Union under a single harmonized rulebook. Specifically, the company is authorized to provide the exchange of crypto-assets for fiat currencies, the exchange of crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, transfer services for crypto-assets on behalf of clients, and the custody and administration of crypto-assets. The company will operate under continuous HANFA supervision, with compliance obligations covering governance arrangements, risk management frameworks, and user protection standards as set out in MiCA. For institutional and retail users, that translates into clearer expectations around how customer assets are safeguarded and how operational risks are managed. Why is the timing significant for the EU