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# Article 2 — Identification of the parties involved in the order

**Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/416 · binding · OJ L, 2025/416, 14.3.2025 · dated 29 Nov 2024 [in force]**

*In force · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/416, OJ L, 2025/416, 14.3.2025 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/416/oj/eng)*

1.  <a id="art-2-p-1"></a>For all orders in crypto-assets, crypto-asset service providers operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall keep records to identify all of the following:\
    <a id="art-2-p-1-a"></a>a) the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets that is a legal entity and submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with Article 4 and field 1 of Table 2 of the Annex;\
    <a id="art-2-p-1-b"></a>b) the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets who is a natural person and submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with field 2 of Table 2 of the Annex;\
    <a id="art-2-p-1-c"></a>c) the [client](https://www.headlesslaw.com/definitions/mica/client) on whose behalf the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) or (b) submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex;\
    <a id="art-2-p-1-d"></a>d) the person or the computer algorithm within the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) and (b) that is responsible for the investment decision in relation to the order, as identified in accordance with field 4 of Table 2 of the Annex;\
    <a id="art-2-p-1-e"></a>e) the person or the computer algorithm within the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) and (b) that is responsible for the execution of the order, as identified in accordance with field 5 of Table 2 of the Annex.\\

    For the purposes of point (d), where more than one persons take the investment decision, the crypto-asset service provider operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall keep records of the person with primary responsibility for that decision. A crypto-asset service provider operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall only identify such a person or computer algorithm where the investment decision is made on behalf of either the participant, or a client in accordance with a discretionary mandate to it by the client.
2. <a id="art-2-p-2"></a>Where a participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets intends to allocate an order to its client following submission of the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets and has not yet allocated the order to its client at the time of the submission of the order, that client shall be identified as specified in field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex.
3. <a id="art-2-p-3"></a>Where several orders of different clients are submitted to the trading platform for crypto-assets together as an aggregated order, the information referred to in field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex shall be recorded in respect of each client.
