MiCA Crypto Alliance Partners with GLEIF to Strengthen MiCA-Compliant White Papers

We’re pleased to announce our partnership with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the official body responsible for maintaining the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system and the global authority on entity classification, jurisdiction codes and standardised address formatting.

We are joining the GLEIF Partners Program, a global initiative that brings together data providers, service providers, financial institutions and industry associations to foster adoption and integration of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI). GLEIF also joins as a partner of the MiCA Crypto Alliance, strengthening our shared commitment to advancing international best practices for digital asset disclosures.

This collaboration marks an important milestone. Together with GLEIF, we are embedding internationally recognised standards into white papers, ensuring they are not just informative but legally sound, globally recognisable and aligned with the expectations of regulators worldwide.

Why GLEIF?

As the organisation behind the global LEI system, GLEIF enables regulators, banks, governments and institutional investors worldwide to speak a common language on legal identity and classification.

Their standards are embedded in global regulatory frameworks, and their datasets are a critical reference point for compliance teams. By working with GLEIF, we ensure that the same reliability and precision supports crypto-asset white papers and MiCA-aligned disclosures.

Key benefits of the partnership

Adopting GLEIF’s standards and taxonomies brings crypto-asset disclosures to the next level:

• Legal Entity Identifiers as best practice: While not mandatory, having an LEI simplifies compliance under MiCA. White papers include three dedicated LEI fields, and when issuers cannot provide them, significantly more disclosure is required. Promoting LEIs as a best practice both reduces burdens and enhances comparability.
• Direct access to the LEI registry: GLEIF maintains the global LEI database and a public API, which underpin the tools and resources we use when preparing white papers. This ensures that every legal entity referenced in our white papers can be framed within a globally standardised legal form.
• Cross-border consistency: Jurisdiction and address references are standardised and machine-readable, making it easier for stakeholders to compare disclosures across markets.
• Digitisation and XBRL: GLEIF is a global leader in digitisation and machine-readable disclosures, publishing an XBRL model for LEIs and working closely with XBRL International. This aligns directly with our mission to advance structured, regulator-ready crypto-asset documentation.

Together, these elements help reduce ambiguity, lower administrative risk and ensure that our white papers are both trusted by readers and aligned with how regulators interpret disclosures.

GLEIF’s leadership in identifiers, machine readability and global standards makes this partnership a natural fit. By collaborating closely, we aim to raise the quality of crypto-asset white papers, strengthen XBRL implementations and promote best practices that prepare the industry for the next generation of transparent, verifiable and compliant digital asset disclosures.

For more information about GLEIF, visit gleif.org