Georgia: Emerging Crypto Hub in Eurasia

Georgia is a state that can boast its strategic whereabouts, plentiful cultural values, and continuous reforms for economic improvement. For example, organization of bureaucratic procedures, diminishing of corruption, and improving the general running of an enterprise. The nation has made a lot of considerable efforts to facilitate a business atmosphere.

Such alterations have made the state in question an appealing place for both local and overseas backers.

Crucial demands for beginning a crypto business in Georgia

To start performing such an entrepreneurship here, you need to:

1. First register an organization in any form such as an LLC, JSC that can be domiciled in your country;
2. Detailed information on beneficial owners of the company should be submitted to the relevant authorities, even if resident abroad;
3. Make sure that the candidate for director and owner of shares of the company concerned has no criminal record;
4. It should be proven that a business has sufficient fiscal resources to provide exchange services, hold customers’ crypto assets at least;
5. Appoint at least one director who resides within the state;
6. The organization shall rent office premises within the state;
7. Pay the government fee of 5,000 GEL to file for the permit;
8. Summarize the policies related to laundering of money, along with the AML/KYC checks on customers;
9. Prove that you have a system in place through which you can detect and report illicit operations;
10. The business plan, the offerings for which it has been set up, and the avoidance of being hacked are to be put before the regulators;
11. After the permit is granted, respect the law further by passing regular checks and bookkeeping all fiscal events.

How to get VASP license in Georgia

Cryptolicense in Georgia is an official permission which allows your enterprise perform activities within the industry licitly and transparently. The principal stages for getting it encompass collection of obligatory papers (duplicates of passports of all future stockholders, UBOs and chiefs; verification of home addresses for every participant; outline of the intended activities or project, etc.) and request for the permit (all obligatory materials must be sent to the local national fiscal institution; it is also compulsory to find a workplace in the state in question). 

In order to thoroughly understand all the nuances of the procedure and avoid legal risks, it is extremely important to enlist the support of an experienced specialist. Eternity Law International lawyers are a team of professionals with many years of experience in supporting multinational legal processes and corporate transactions. Our experts have deep knowledge in the field of global law, licensing, taxation and entity structuring. Thanks to many years of experience and an individual approach to each client, you receive not just a consultation, but full support at all stages.