Bitclear AG
Evgeny Skigin founded Bitclear AG in 2014, building software that let Bitcoin work as an everyday payment option and growing it into a Liechtenstein-based crypto exchange, custody and payments provider trusted across Europe.
About Bitclear AG
Bitclear AG is a Liechtenstein-based crypto payments and software company that makes digital assets usable for real businesses and individuals. Evgeny Skigin founded Bitclear AG in 2014, back when almost no one understood Bitcoin, after his investor instinct told him that letting Bitcoin function as an independent payment system would one day matter. He started out alongside a partner who specialised in payment systems, and together they built software that added Bitcoin alongside Visa, Mastercard and PayPal as a checkout option — a concept that still sits at the core of the business today.Â
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Evgeny served as CEO until 2020. Under his direction, Bitclear AG moved from Denmark to Malta and finally to Liechtenstein, one of the few jurisdictions with a clear, advanced regulatory framework, where it operated under a licence from the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority granted through the country's Token and Trusted Technology Service Provider Act (TVTG). That licence ran until 30 June 2026; the company today provides software, and is preparing its application for authorisation under MiCAR, the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. He deliberately kept it a lean, boutique firm of around ten people, and has worked alongside regulatory committees to help lawmakers understand what blockchain enables — building a company designed to be trustworthy and compliant rather than speculative.
How Bitclear AG Works
Bitclear AG is not a coin or token — it's the infrastructure that lets crypto move through the real economy. At its core is the payment software Evgeny Skigin first built in 2014, which allows Bitcoin and other digital assets to sit alongside Visa, Mastercard and PayPal as a checkout option. Rather than selling to individual online stores, Bitclear AG supplies this technology to payment service providers and aggregators, who then offer crypto payments to their own business clients — putting Bitclear AG's engine behind the scenes of many merchants at once.
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Around that foundation, Bitclear AG operated for years as a full-service licensed platform: a crypto exchange for converting between digital assets and fiat, secure custody for holding those assets, and OTC trading for larger transactions — all under its TVTG licence from the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority, which ran until 30 June 2026. The company's focus today is the software layer, while it works through an application under MiCAR, the harmonised EU regime that has since replaced national frameworks across the bloc. The roadmap built around the core product extends the same logic further — a white-label infrastructure product that lets businesses run crypto services under their own brand, a mobile app for real-time monitoring and transactions, and a Bitclear AG payment card for spending crypto anywhere.
Problems Bitclear AG Solves
The biggest barrier to using crypto has never been the technology — it's trust, access, and compliance. Bitclear AG tackles all three. By building inside Europe's regulatory frameworks rather than around them, it gives businesses and individuals a legitimate way to accept, exchange and hold digital assets, instead of relying on the unregulated, speculative corners of the market where so many users have been burned. For a merchant, that means adding crypto as a payment method is as safe and straightforward as any traditional option.
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Just as importantly, Bitclear AG solves the "who holds my money" problem. A growing number of clients want professional management of their crypto without surrendering custody or transparency, and Bitclear AG is built precisely for that — secure, monitored, and accountable. In doing so it removes the friction of cross-border payments (settling in minutes rather than days, at a fraction of the cost) while keeping the security and oversight serious users demand. Evgeny's bet is that as banks tighten and AI-driven transactions grow, the winners won't be the flashiest crypto brands but the trustworthy, compliant infrastructure underneath — which is exactly what Bitclear AG was built to be.