“Can a MiCAR-licensed, Bitcoin-only platform become the comprehensive financial infrastructure for long-term Bitcoiners by combining regulated custody, lending, and embedded banking?”
Founded in 2017, Blockrise started as a Bitcoin-only crypto platform in Rotterdam targeting high-net-worth individuals and corporates. As EU crypto regulation matured, the company moved to become a fully regulated CASP under MiCAR (AFM licence 41000029), differentiating on compliance and institutional-grade custody. In 2025–2026 it layered additional financial services — bitcoin-backed loans, secured EUR lending, and asset management — while embedding bunq's BaaS infrastructure to give users fiat bank accounts directly within the Blockrise product, pivoting from a pure brokerage/custody play toward a vertically integrated Bitcoin wealth and banking platform.
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