6. A competent authority may set lower thresholds than the values set out in paragraphs 1 and 2. If a competent authority lowers the threshold referred to in paragraph 2, the value set out in paragraph 3 shall be deemed to be commensurately lowered.
For the purposes of the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the competent authority shall consider the market size and the average capitalisation of DLT financial instruments of a given type that have been admitted to trading platforms in the Member States where the services and activities will be carried out and shall consider the risks that relate to the issuers, to the type of distributed ledger technology used and to the services and activities of the DLT market infrastructure.