License Index · Vantegris original data · updated 2026-09-13
The state of gaming & crypto licensing in 2026
The high-risk licensing industry runs on public registers — and almost nobody reads them end to end. We do, every week, straight from the regulators. This page is the roll-up: the headline figures across every register we track, free to cite with attribution.
Key figures
- As of 2026-09-13, Vantegris tracks 7,899 active gaming and crypto licences across 14 official regulator registers — 9,555 records in total, including revoked, expired and ceased entries.
- Of the active licences, 5,091 are gaming or gambling licences and 2,808 are crypto or VASP licences.
- The largest single register Vantegris tracks is the FINTRAC (MSB registry), with 2,348 active licences (Canada).
- The fastest-growing register so far in 2026 is the FINTRAC (MSB registry), with 833 new licences issued this year.
- Across the registers that publish issue dates, 1,813 new licences have been issued so far in 2026.
- 304 licences across these registers are marked revoked, expired or ceased — a reminder that a licence list is a moving target, not a static count.
By register
Every figure below is the official regulator register, mirrored and normalised by Vantegris. Each links to the full dataset with a machine-readable JSON download.
| Register | Type | Active | Issued 2026 | Revoked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anjouan Gaming (ALSI) | Gaming | 1,506 | +453 | — |
| Curaçao Gaming Authority (LOK) | Gaming | 611 | +218 | 47 |
| Kahnawake Gaming Commission | Gaming | 230 | — | — |
| Tobique Gaming Commission | Gaming | 167 | — | — |
| Gambling Supervision Commission | Gaming | 54 | — | — |
| UK Gambling Commission | Gaming | 2,143 | +100 | — |
| Malta Gaming Authority | Gaming | 311 | — | — |
| AGCO / iGaming Ontario | Gaming | 49 | — | — |
| Alderney Gambling Control Commission | Gaming | 20 | — | — |
| ESMA interim register / NCAs | Crypto | 344 | +193 | — |
| Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority | Crypto | 56 | +16 | — |
| Securities and Futures Commission | Crypto | 13 | — | — |
| FINTRAC (MSB registry) | Crypto | 2,348 | +833 | 257 |
| ESMA interim register / NCAs | Crypto | 47 | — | — |
Methodology & citation
Figures are counted from each regulator's own public register, pulled weekly and normalised into a common schema. "Active" follows each regulator's own status wording (valid, active, authorised, licensed, granted or registered). Counts change between weekly pulls; verify a specific operator against the source register before relying on it. Reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Cite this page
Vantegris (2026). The State of Gaming & Crypto Licensing in 2026. Vantegris License Index. Retrieved 2026-09-13 from https://vantegris.com/state-of-licensing/
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