About CryptoLicense

This industry has a verification problem. A licensing adviser is asking a founder to hand over corporate documents, beneficial-ownership details and a significant budget, usually before the two have ever met in person. It is reasonable to want to know who is on the other side of that. So this page is written to be checked, not believed.

Who you are actually contracting with

CryptoLicense is the trading name of CL GLOBAL SDN BHD, a Malaysian company with registration number 1421939-T, registered in Selangor. That is the entity that signs the engagement and issues the invoice. The business has been operating since 2020.

Group entities

Group entities and their public registration details

Two overseas entities sit alongside it. In the United Kingdom, CRYPTO LICENCE LTD, company number 16303114, incorporated on 10 March 2025 and shown as Active on the register — you can confirm both at Companies House. In Hong Kong, Elmbridge Advisory Limited, company number 78559566, registered on 1 August 2025 with the Companies Registry.

Two deliberate points about that table. First, we publish the company numbers and the register, not addresses — a registered address copied from an internal document and then contradicted by the register would fail the very check we are inviting. Look the entities up directly. Second, both overseas entities were registered in 2025 and are young. They are group entities, not staffed offices, and we describe them that way. The reasoning behind all of this is set out on verifiable entity proof.

What does the team actually bring?

The core team is based in Singapore and Malaysia, with backgrounds in both traditional finance and crypto — which matters more than it sounds, because a licence application is a document written in the language of financial regulation about a business that usually is not. Project experience spans the United Kingdom, the European Union, Singapore and Hong Kong.

The 10+ years figure we publish is the team's industry experience. It is not the age of any company in the group, and we will not let it be read that way.

The figures we publish

We publish four numbers and no others: 100+ companies served, 10+ jurisdictions covered, 10+ years of industry experience, and a highest single project value of over USD 5 million. That last one is a project value, not a fee. We do not publish an approval rate, a success percentage or a typical timeline, because we do not have figures for those that would survive scrutiny — and any of the three would sit badly beside the fact that no approval can be guaranteed.

What we are, and what we are not

CryptoLicense is an advisory firm. We are not a regulator, and we are not a law firm. We do not issue licences, we do not decide applications, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Where a matter genuinely requires a legal opinion in a specific jurisdiction, the right answer is local counsel, and we will say so.

We also decline work. If a business model sits outside where we have real experience, or if the route a founder wants does not fit what they are actually building, the useful answer is to say that at the assessment stage rather than after an engagement letter is signed. Doing it yourself versus using an adviser sets out the cases where you genuinely do not need us.

What we do commit to: the classification work is done properly before anything is drafted, the file is written against your real operation rather than a template, and the sourcing an application depends on — entity, address, compliance officer, banking — is treated as part of the job rather than your problem. And that waiting is never dead time; while one regulator works through its queue, everything else continues in parallel.

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