MiCA · CASP infrastructure · .ie
Twelve exact-match names for the service lines a CASP runs under MiCA — payments, stables, wallet, reserve, RWAs, tokenise, clearing, processor, custody, issuance, derivatives — plus the desk tickers XBT, XET, XAU, XAG, XPT, XPD, and ZEC. A CASP authorised in any member state can hold them. The passport is the Union: about 450 million people.
Not an Irish-only club. A CASP licensed in France, Germany, Malta, Lithuania — anywhere in the Union — can take the names, provided .ie can see a connection: an Irish entity, or trade into Ireland, which a passported firm already has once it serves Irish clients.
The point of the names
This is not an Irish-company product. MiCA authorisation in one member state is enough to provide those services across the Union. The .ie names are the Irish exact-match door a CASP already licensed in Paris, Berlin, Vilnius or Valletta puts on that passport.
Home authority can be any of the 27. The Central Bank of Ireland is one route, not the only one. Credit institutions, EMIs and MiFID firms can notify to add crypto-asset services under the authorisation they already hold.
The firm notifies host states, the services, and a start date. The home authority has 10 working days to forward it. No second licence. No branch required to serve clients in the other 26 countries — Ireland included.
A passported CASP serving, or about to serve, Irish clients has the connection .ie asks for. Trade into Ireland is enough. An Irish subsidiary is optional, not the price of entry.
Payments, stables, wallet, tokenise, RWAs, clearing and processor on the service lines. XBT and XET — Bloomberg’s XBT:CUR and XET:CUR — plus XAU, XAG, XPT, XPD and ZEC on the product doors. One brand family, every member state.
450 million is the passport, not the domain. One CASP authorisation, notified outward, covers the Union. These names are how that firm shows up on .ie — payments, stables, wallet, reserve, RWAs, tokenise, clearing, processor, and the tickers — without having to be an Irish company to start.
The books
Twelve exact matches for a CASP’s Irish infrastructure — the service lines MiCA authorisation covers. Then the tickers. Then the short brands.
12 names
Payments, stables, wallet, reserve, real-world assets, tokenise, clearing house, processor, custody, issuance, derivatives, freehold. Category infrastructure a MiCA CASP puts on .ie. Names, not a licence.
07 names
XAU, XAG, XPT, XPD, XBT, XET, ZEC — gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and the crypto symbols the market already types.
07 names
Two-character brands. Almost never available on .ie.
10 names
L2 and protocol names. Inquire separately.
07 names
AI product names, Dublin 4, audit, gaming, agent KYC. Outside the CASP infrastructure book.
Collection
Silver ticker. Irish door for vaulted and silver-backed crypto product.
Gold ticker. Irish door for vaulted and gold-backed crypto product.
Platinum ticker. ISO code XPT — Irish door for vaulted and platinum-backed product, same family as XAU and XAG.
Palladium ticker. ISO code XPD, in the same family as XAU, XAG, and XPT. Desk-ready three-letter .ie.
Bloomberg’s bitcoin spot quote is XBT:CUR. ISO-style desk ticker, used where BTC is the retail symbol. Three letters.
Bloomberg’s ether spot quote is XET:CUR, the same desk convention as XBT:CUR for bitcoin. Retail still types ETH. Three letters, desk-ready.
The global ticker for Zcash. Privacy money on Ireland’s .ie registry — three letters, desk-ready, same family as XBT and XET.
Dublin 4. Ballsbridge, Donnybrook — the city’s premium postcode. Property, luxury, and private-client finance.
T-Zero. Instant settlement, trading, and tech. A two-character .ie that is almost impossible to find.
P-Zero — Protocol Zero, Privacy Zero, Prestige. Extremely rare short brand for tech or crypto.
B-Zero. Base Zero, Build Zero. Minimal mark for a layer-0 or infrastructure project.
D-Zero / Day Zero. DeFi, data, development. Ultra-short and brandable.
E-Zero. Energy Zero, Emissions Zero, Ethereum Zero. Green tech or L2.
Layer Zero. The infrastructure term. One of the strongest two-character brandables on the registry.
Z-Zero — zero knowledge. Privacy tech in two characters. Minimal and premium.
Clean three-letter dictionary word. Medical, wellness, or storage-area-network tech.
AI Payments. Checkout, fraud prevention, or a neobank rail with an obvious product name.
AI + Finance. A fundable startup name for DeFi, AI trading, or financial intelligence.
The sequencer orders transactions for L2s. Core blockchain infrastructure keyword.
Maximal Extractable Value. Exact-match three-letter name for searchers and labs.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure. Exact-match category name for the 2024–26 narrative.
The people who secure blockchains. Built for a staking provider or validator service.
Infrastructure. Plural category name for EMT and ART stables — issuer, exchange, or CASP product page.
A trust word. Instant credibility for smart-contract security, finance, or an audit firm.
Infrastructure. Irish exact match for reserve language — treasury, fund, or CASP desk.
The Ethereum gas unit every ETH user already knows. Four-letter exact match.
Category killer. Bitcoin mining is a multi-billion industry across Ireland and the EU.
Infrastructure. Custody name — the first service a CASP has to explain under MiCA.
ERC-721 — the NFT standard. Culture and tech history in three characters.
Infrastructure. Irish spelling of tokenize — the verb for RWA issuance on a CASP rail.
Zero Knowledge Proof. Three-letter exact match for the core privacy primitive.
Play-to-Earn. Three-letter exact match for the on-chain gaming category.
The entity that generates ZK proofs. A single dictionary word for a core infra role.
ZK + X. A compact brand for a ZK exchange, L2, or privacy project.
Infrastructure. Tokenised metal, funds, credit, equity — the RWA category a CASP puts on .ie.
Infrastructure. Transfer and merchant rails — the service CASPs and PSPs sell. Irish exact match.
Infrastructure. Irish exact match for a clearing house — settlement between venues, OTC and the desk a CASP or market operator runs.
Infrastructure. Payment processor exact match — acquiring and settlement for the rail a CASP or PSP puts on .ie.
Infrastructure. Custody exact match — safekeeping of crypto-assets, the MiCA service next to the wallet name.
Infrastructure. Issuance rail — putting a token or tokenised asset out on a CASP.
Infrastructure. Derivatives exact match — futures, options, swaps and related services a CASP puts on .ie.
Tokenised real estate. Freehold title on-chain — fractional ownership and Irish property on a CASP rail.
Agent KYC. Whitelist for verifying and onboarding agents under AML and compliance requirements.
Direct
Message @THEIEVAULT on Telegram, or email d@xbt.ie. .ie names transfer only to buyers who meet registry eligibility.