Source: OJ L, 2025/416, 14.3.2025

Current language: EN

Article 8 Priority and sequence numbers


    1. Crypto-asset service providersmeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; which operate trading systems on a price visibility-time priority shall maintain a record of the priority time stamp for all orders as specified in field 12 of Table 2 of the Annex.

    1. Crypto-asset service providersmeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; which operate trading systems on a size-time priority basis shall maintain a record of the quantities which determine the priority of orders as specified in field 13 of Table 2 of the Annex and the priority time stamp referred to in paragraph 1.

    1. Crypto-asset service providersmeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; which use a combination of price-visibility-time priority and size-time priority and display orders on their order book in time priority shall maintain a record of the priority time stamp for all orders as specified in field 12 of Table 2 of the Annex.

    1. Crypto-asset service providersmeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; which use a combination of price-visibility-time priority and size-time priority and display orders on their order book in size-time priority shall maintain a record of the quantities which determine the priority of orders as specified in field 13 of Table 2 of the Annex and the priority time stamp referred to in paragraph 1.

    1. Crypto-asset service providersmeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; shall assign and maintain a sequence number for each event as specified in field 14 of Table 2 of the Annex.

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