Ireland's central bank is preparing to move notifications for a category of crypto assets onto its online portal, but the new submission route is not yet live. In an announcement dated 23 October 2026, the Central Bank of Ireland said a system guide would be published at the end of the fourth quarter, ahead of the launch.
The change concerns notifications under Title II of the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, or MiCAR. That part of the framework covers crypto assets other than asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens, provided they are not otherwise excluded from MiCAR. It is not an announcement of a new stablecoin approval system.
According to the bank's 23 October notice, the future portal route will cover the initial notification, modifications and subsequent related submissions. The notice describes the service as coming soon. It does not give a launch day or say that submitters should already replace the current process with the new one.
What the current submission process requires
The bank's published Title II submission instructions still describe a secure Kiteworks channel. Submitters first complete the crypto-asset white paper, an explanatory note required by Article 8(4), and the bank's Title II submission template. The template records information about the token and associated parties and includes data needed for transmission to the European Securities and Markets Authority.
Once those documents are ready, the instructions say to contact tokens@centralbank.ie to obtain a secure submission link. The documents themselves are received through Kiteworks, not by email. After uploading them, the submitter confirms completion to the same contact address. This distinguishes the contact step from the actual transfer of the notification documents.
The published process then provides for a five-working-day assessment of the notification. If the documents are incomplete, the bank contacts the submitter and the five-working-day turnaround starts again when updated documents are supplied. The instructions also require the home member state, host member states and token name to be correct and consistent across the submitted documents.
These are the existing instructions displayed alongside the coming-soon announcement. The future system guide is therefore the next document that will explain the portal submission process. The October notice does not set out a migration timetable for existing notifications or a separate deadline for moving earlier documents into the portal.
A notification is not regulatory approval
The distinction between notifying a white paper and securing approval is explicit in the bank's guidance: it does not have an approval role for these Title II white papers. Filing a document through a secure system therefore should not be described as the regulator approving the token, its commercial prospects or the information supplied by its offeror.
Title II also carries obligations beyond submitting paperwork. The bank identifies requirements concerning marketing communications, conduct of business and liability for information in the white paper. Those requirements apply to the relevant offerors and people seeking admission to trading. Changing the submission channel does not turn those responsibilities into a guarantee from the authority receiving the documents.
The guidance dates the direct application of Title II to 30 December 2024. The forthcoming portal is therefore a change in how notifications are handled within an existing regime, not the start of regulation for these assets. The bank directs white-paper notifications to its Primary Markets team within the Capital Markets and Funds Directorate.
The planned portal is intended to bring related submissions into one secure platform. The bank says users will be able to see a notification's status and follow-up requests, exchange messages through a dedicated channel and retrieve documentation previously submitted. These are planned administrative features, rather than changes to the legal classification of a crypto asset.
A separate portal process for firms seeking authorisation as crypto-asset service providers has already operated since 2 April 2026, the same communications page says. That existing CASP process must not be confused with the forthcoming Title II notification route. One concerns a firm's application for a service-provider licence; the other concerns the specified crypto-asset notifications and subsequent filings.
Dalimss News has separately reported on France's proposed changes to the wider MiCA framework and ESMA's expectations for services involving non-compliant stablecoins. Neither is the Irish portal announcement. For this change, the bank has identified publication of the system guide as the next step before launch.
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