Daniel Bradley

Daniel Bradley is the founder and editor of VASP Tracker, an independent tracker of crypto licensing deadlines and official regulator registers worldwide.

He is a lawyer by training with a focus on financial regulation. He has followed the crypto market since 2017, the year of the ICO boom, when he first saw how little of what exchanges said about being “regulated” or “licensed” could be checked against a regulator’s own records. Since then his work has centred on regulatory change and compliance for digital-asset businesses: AML/CFT rules and the FATF Travel Rule, the first national VASP registration regimes, and later the EU’s MiCA, the UK’s cryptoasset regime and the US GENIUS Act.

Why VASP Tracker

Between 2024 and 2026 dozens of countries moved from loose registration to full licensing, often with hard cut-off dates. Daniel kept running into the same problem: the answer to “is this platform allowed to operate here, and until when?” was spread across PDFs, gazettes, regulator spreadsheets and press releases in a dozen languages, while news and marketing filled the gaps with guesses. Brazil’s central bank deadline for crypto firms (SPSAV, 30 October 2026) was the trigger. Hundreds of platforms served Brazilian users, but there was no single place showing who had actually applied. He built the first tracker for Brazil from the central bank’s open data, then extended the same method to every jurisdiction with a public register.

How He Works

Official sources first: registers, gazettes and regulator notices, each with a link and an access date. Company statements come second and press reports only as labelled secondary sources. Nothing is inferred that a source does not say. Every number on the site can be traced back to a document, and the raw data is published under an open licence so anyone can check it.

Independence

VASP Tracker takes no payment from the platforms it lists, and their position in the data can’t be bought. Corrections are welcome and published with a date.