Finoa primary sources — 2026-04-30

Project status in this pass

• No canonical standalone whitepaper or litepaper surfaced.
• The clearest current source of truth is the Finoa homepage, About Us page, privacy-policy disclosures, and the separate Finoa Consensus Services staking site.

Primary-source snapshots

1) Official homepage

• URL: https://www.finoa.io/
• Key excerpt:
  • The homepage says Finoa provides “Infra for Custodians and their Institutional Customers” and “technology that enables regulated VASPs to protect and manage their customers digital assets with a secure platform.”
  • It highlights 170+ supported assets, 12 L1 networks, and 10+ staking protocols.
  • Crucially, it also says “Finoa Technical Services is a technology infrastructure provider,” “is not an authorized Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR,” “does not exercise control over client assets,” “does not provide custody,” and “does not facilitate the execution of orders.”

2) About Us page

• URL: https://www.finoa.io/about-us
• Key excerpt:
  • The page says Finoa began in Madrid in 2018 when its founders saw a lack of sophisticated services that would let institutions participate in crypto.
  • It says the company later became part of Germany’s crypto ecosystem and was built to address institutional regulatory and security requirements.

3) Privacy policy / regulatory-status disclosure

• URL: https://www.finoa.io/privacy-policy
• Key excerpt:
  • The privacy policy says it was updated to reflect “the voluntary surrender and formal revocation” of Finoa GmbH’s license to conduct crypto-custody business under the German Banking Act, effective 31 December 2025.
  • It further says Finoa GmbH “no longer enters into new regulated business relationships.”
  • This is a high-signal primary-source clue that the brand’s current public operating model has shifted away from being an active regulated custodian of record.

4) Finoa Consensus Services site

• URL: https://finoa-fcs.io/
• Key excerpt:
  • The separate FCS site positions the live infrastructure surface around staking: “Advance your staking strategy” and “Access institutional-grade staking infrastructure to maximize your rewards while strengthening network decentralization.”
  • It claims 10,000+ nodes deployed, 14 supported networks, 5,000+ stakers, and more than $2 billion in assets under delegation.
  • It presents three main operating modes: in-custody staking, delegated staking, and white-label nodes.
  • It also frames the offer around German-based infrastructure, worldwide cloud failover, automated operations, and 24/7 monitoring.

Working conclusion

Finoa is best cataloged in its current form as institutional digital-asset technical-services and staking infrastructure, with a particularly important distinction between the legacy/marketing custody framing and the current non-CASP technical-services disclaimer. The privacy-policy disclosures materially change how the company should be understood: the strongest current primary-source reading is not “active custodian,” but rather infrastructure provider and staking/control-plane vendor for regulated counterparties.