Monero delisting and regulation tracker
As of 24 October 2026, we track 21 exchange delistings and regional restrictions of Monero and 11 national or regional rules on privacy coins since 2018. The next big one: the EU's ban on crypto firms handling privacy coins from July 2027.
Quick facts
- Which big exchanges have delisted Monero?
- Kraken (some regions only), Binance, OKX, Huobi Global (now HTX) (later relisted), Bittrex, CoinSpot, Bithumb, OKEx Korea, Upbit, Coincheck
- Where are privacy coins restricted?
- Russia, Philippines, India, United Arab Emirates, European Union, Thailand, South Korea
- What is the latest development?
- 2026-10-24: Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi withdrew customer questionnaires that had asked Monero buyers about their employer, source of funds and intended use of withdrawn XMR, saying no rule required them and that 'XMR stays listed'. Source-of-funds checks remain, and the regional restrictions (EEA, Canada and others) are unchanged.
Timeline
| Date | Where | Who | Type | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | Global | Kraken | exchange | Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi withdrew customer questionnaires that had asked Monero buyers about their employer, source of funds and intended use of withdrawn XMR, saying no rule required them and that 'XMR stays listed'. Source-of-funds checks remain, and the regional restrictions (EEA, Canada and others) are unchanged. | cryptoslate.com |
| 2026-10-05 | Global | Monero developers (FCMP++/Carrot stressnet) | network | The FCMP++ and Carrot beta stressnet v3.0 (released 25 Sep 2026) forked at block 3,102,800. This is a test network only; FCMP++ had no announced mainnet activation date as of early October 2026. | cryptoticker.io |
| 2026-08-15 | Global | Kraken | exchange | Kraken introduced XMR limits: individual accounts are capped at $1,500 of XMR withdrawals and $3,500 of deposits per rolling 30 days (corporate accounts $10,000 and $30,000). XMR stays listed where Kraken supports it. | cryptoslate.com |
| 2026-08-04 | Russia | President of Russia / Bank of Russia | national | Putin signed the law 'On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights' (bill No. 1194918-8) on Tuesday 4 Aug 2026, legalising crypto investment through licensed intermediaries from 1 Sep 2026 while keeping the domestic payment ban. Retail buyers are limited to approved assets; the Bank of Russia's Dec 2025 concept excluded anonymous (privacy) coins even for qualified investors. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2026-06-30 | Taiwan | Legislative Yuan | national | Taiwan's legislature passed the Virtual Asset Service Act in third reading, requiring FSC licensing for VASPs and approval for stablecoin issuers. The cabinet sets the effective date. The law does not specifically address privacy coins. | theblock.co |
| 2026-06-16 | United Arab Emirates | Kraken | exchange | Kraken halted XMR deposits and trading for UAE residents (with DASH, ZEC and several stablecoins) as part of a 'regular asset review'. Withdrawals closed on 14 Sep 2026, and remaining balances were liquidated 15-25 Sep 2026. | cryptoslate.com |
| 2026-06 | Philippines | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) | national | BSP memorandum M-2026-023, reported on 15 Jun 2026, bars licensed virtual asset service providers from listing or supporting 'anonymity-enhancing VAs, otherwise known as privacy VAs'. Reports say this removes coins like Monero and Zcash from compliant exchanges. The rule targets VASP listings; no rule on private holding was reported. | decrypt.co |
| 2026-04-10 | India | Kraken | exchange | Kraken halted XMR, DASH and ZEC deposits and trading for clients in India, with withdrawals ending 15 May and leftover balances liquidated 18-22 May. The notice omits the year; 2026 follows from its 30 May 2026 update, its place among Kraken's 2026 delisting notices, and FIU-IND's January 2026 guidance. | support.kraken.com |
| 2026-04-01 | Australia | Parliament of Australia | national | Parliament passed the Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill 2025, a licensing regime for digital-asset platforms expected to commence 12 months after Royal Assent. It contains no reported privacy-coin ban. | theblock.co |
| 2026-01-22 | India | Financial Intelligence Unit - India (FIU-IND) | national | Reports said FIU-IND had told registered crypto platforms to stop deposits and withdrawals of anonymity-enhancing crypto tokens, citing XMR, ZEC and DASH as examples. This followed revised AML/CFT guidelines of 8 Jan 2026 that outright prohibited mixer/tumbler transactions. | visionias.in |
| 2026-01-14 | Global | Monero market | network | XMR reached an all-time high of about $797.73 per The Block's data, roughly 80% above a recent weekly low. Analysts linked part of the move to swaps of stolen funds, which remains unconfirmed. | theblock.co |
| 2026-01-12 | United Arab Emirates | Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA, DIFC) | regional | DFSA rules in force from 12 Jan 2026 bar firms in the Dubai International Financial Centre from providing financial services relating to privacy tokens or privacy devices, which covers XMR and ZEC. Holding in personal non-custodial wallets is not prohibited by the rule. | bitpinas.com |
| 2025-12-23 | Russia | Bank of Russia | national | The Bank of Russia published a concept for legal crypto trading by qualified and non-qualified investors. Qualified investors would be able to buy any cryptocurrency except anonymous ones whose design conceals transfer information. | cbr.ru |
| 2025-09-18 | Canada | Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) | exchange | The RCMP announced it had dismantled TradeOgre, a no-KYC exchange that listed XMR, and seized about CA$56 million (US$40M) in crypto. It was the largest crypto seizure in Canadian history. Police said TradeOgre was an unregistered money services business; no charges had been filed at the time. | theblock.co |
| 2025-09-02 | Canada | Kraken | exchange | Kraken disabled XMR trading for Canadian customers, citing new compliance requirements in Canada. Deposits had been paused immediately when the notice went out, and accounts moved to withdrawal-only. | support.kraken.com |
| 2025-08-12 | Global | Qubic mining pool | network | Qubic's founder claimed the pool had 'achieved 51% over Monero', and a six-block chain reorganisation was observed. Researchers disputed whether it was a true sustained 51% attack or a selfish-mining reorg. | theblock.co |
| 2025-06-30 | Malaysia | Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) | national | SC consultation paper 3/2025 proposed letting digital asset exchanges list tokens without prior SC concurrence, while flagging privacy coins as a higher-risk asset type because their opacity could attract money laundering. | conventuslaw.com |
| 2025-06 | United Arab Emirates | ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) | regional | Amendments to the Abu Dhabi Global Market framework introduced explicit prohibitions on privacy tokens. Licensed firms in ADGM may not list, support or facilitate them. | charltonsquantum.com |
| 2024-12-30 | European Union | EU (MiCA, Regulation (EU) 2023/1114) | regional | MiCA's CASP rules apply from 30 Dec 2024. Article 76(3) requires trading platforms to 'prevent the admission to trading of crypto-assets that have an inbuilt anonymisation function' unless holders and transaction history can be identified. | esma.europa.eu |
| 2024-10-31 | European Union | Kraken | exchange | Kraken halted XMR trading and deposits for all EEA clients, citing regulatory changes. Withdrawals stayed open until 31 Dec 2024, and remaining XMR was converted to BTC by 6 Jan 2025. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2024-09-02 | Global | Binance | exchange | Binance started converting users' remaining delisted XMR balances (along with 14 other tokens) to USDC after the 1 Sep 2024 withdrawal deadline. | decrypt.co |
| 2024-06-19 | European Union | EU (AMLR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) | regional | The Anti-Money Laundering Regulation was published in the Official Journal. Article 79(1) bars credit/financial institutions and CASPs from keeping anonymous accounts or any account allowing anonymisation or increased obfuscation of transactions, 'including through anonymity-enhancing coins'. Under Article 90(2) it applies from 10 Jul 2027. | springlex.eu |
| 2024-05-14 | Global | LocalMonero / AgoraDesk | exchange | LocalMonero, the largest P2P marketplace for XMR, disabled trading on 14 May 2024 after announcing a wind-down on 7 May. The website was to close within six months. | theblock.co |
| 2024-05-10 | Belgium | Kraken | exchange | Kraken halted XMR trading and deposits for clients in Belgium and Ireland, citing new EU rules. Withdrawals ended 10 Jun 2024 and leftover XMR was converted to BTC. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2024-05-10 | Ireland | Kraken | exchange | Kraken halted XMR trading and deposits for clients in Ireland (and Belgium) ahead of EU anti-anonymity rules; withdrawals were halted on 10 Jun 2024 and remaining XMR converted to BTC. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2024-02-20 | Global | Binance | exchange | Binance removed all XMR spot pairs worldwide, saying the asset no longer met its listing standards. XMR fell about 15% on the 6 Feb announcement. | theblock.co |
| 2024-01-05 | Global | OKX | exchange | OKX removed XMR spot pairs along with ZEC, DASH and ZEN. Deposits had stopped on 27 Dec 2023 and withdrawals ended 5 Mar 2024. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2024-01-04 | Global | Binance | exchange | Binance added a 'monitoring tag' to XMR, flagging it for possible delisting. The full delisting followed in February 2024. | theblock.co |
| 2023-06-26 | European Union | Binance | exchange | Binance had told users in France, Italy, Spain and Poland in May 2023 that 12 privacy coins would be blocked from 26 Jun. It then reclassified them, and XMR (with ZEN, FIRO, BEAM and MOB) remained on the restricted list for those countries. | decrypt.co |
| 2023-02-07 | United Arab Emirates | Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) | regional | VARA's Virtual Assets and Related Activities Regulations 2023 state that 'the issuance of Anonymity-Enhanced Cryptocurrencies and all VA Activities related to them are prohibited in the Emirate' of Dubai. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2022-09-19 | Global | Huobi Global (now HTX) | exchange | Huobi's delisting of XMR and six other privacy coins, citing 'the latest financial regulations', was scheduled to complete on 19 Sep; trading had ended on 6 Sep and deposits on 12 Sep. HTX (formerly Huobi) later relisted XMR, and its XMR/USDT market was live in October 2026; we did not find a relisting date. | decrypt.co |
| 2022-08-13 | Global | Monero network | network | A network upgrade at block 2,688,888 raised the ring size from 11 to 16 and added view tags, Bulletproofs+ and multisig improvements. | decrypt.co |
| 2022-04-01 | Thailand | Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thailand | national | From 1 Apr 2022, licensed digital asset business operators are prohibited from providing privacy-coin services that conceal sender, recipient or amount. | tilleke.com |
| 2021-11-26 | United Kingdom | Kraken | exchange | Kraken told UK customers that XMR trading and deposits would end after 26 Nov 2021, citing UK regulatory compliance, and that XMR margin positions would be closed. | ambcrypto.com |
| 2021-03-25 | South Korea | Financial Services Commission (FSC) / KoFIU | national | Amendments to the Special Financial Transactions Act took effect on 25 Mar 2021. Under the FSC's rules announced in Nov 2020, Korean VASPs may not handle 'dark coins' such as XMR, ZEC and DASH. | scorechain.com |
| 2021-01-15 | Global | Bittrex | exchange | Bittrex removed XMR, ZEC and DASH markets by 15 Jan 2021, after announcing the move on 1 Jan. | theblock.co |
| 2020-11-03 | South Korea | Financial Services Commission (FSC) | national | The FSC announced that VASPs would be barred from handling privacy-focused 'dark coins' under the amended Special Payment Act, with enforcement from March 2021. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2020-09-30 | United States | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | national | The IRS awarded contracts worth up to $1.25 million in total to Chainalysis and Integra FEC to develop Monero and Layer-2 tracing tools. | decrypt.co |
| 2020-08-31 | Australia | CoinSpot | exchange | Australian exchange CoinSpot halted trading in XMR and other privacy coins from 31 Aug 2020, and Swyftx announced the same. The report linked the moves to regulatory requirements, likely FATF guidelines, though the exchanges gave no detailed reason. | forklog.com |
| 2020-08-11 | Russia | Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) | national | Russia's financial-intelligence agency was reported to be building a 'Transparent Blockchain' analytics system that could partially reduce the anonymity of Monero and Dash. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2020-07-29 | United States | Coinbase | exchange | Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the exchange would not list Monero because US regulators had not fully accepted privacy coins. An October 2026 exchange survey found Coinbase still lists no XMR. | fxstreet.com |
| 2020-06-01 | South Korea | Bithumb | exchange | Bithumb permanently delisted XMR, citing its reported use in the 'Nth room' exploitation case and falling volume. Huobi Korea had announced on 12 Apr 2020 that it would end XMR support. | cointelegraph.com |
| 2019-11-30 | Global | Monero network | network | The v0.15 network upgrade, scheduled for about 30 Nov 2019, switched Monero's proof-of-work to RandomX, a CPU-oriented algorithm intended to resist ASIC mining. | getmonero.org |
| 2019-10-10 | South Korea | OKEx Korea | exchange | OKEx Korea ended trading support for XMR and other privacy coins, saying they 'violate' the FATF travel rule. Withdrawals continued until 10 Dec 2019. | theblock.co |
| 2019-09-30 | South Korea | Upbit | exchange | Upbit delisted XMR, DASH, ZEC, PIVX, XHV and TUBE by 30 Sep 2019, citing money-laundering prevention. | crowdfundinsider.com |
| 2018-06-18 | Japan | Coincheck | exchange | Coincheck completed the delisting of XMR, DASH, ZEC and REP. Coins not withdrawn by the deadline were converted to yen at market prices. | bitcoinist.com |
| 2018-04-30 | Japan | Financial Services Agency (FSA) | national | The FSA was reported to be pressing registered exchanges to drop anonymity-enhancing coins, acting informally and through the new self-regulatory body rather than by statute. Japanese licensed exchanges have not listed XMR since. | financemagnates.com |
"Exchange" means a company decision; "national" and "regional" mean a law or regulator; "network" covers events on the Monero network itself.
What this means for Monero holders
Delistings affect where you can buy and sell XMR, not whether you can hold it. In nearly every country we track, owning Monero in your own wallet remains legal. If your exchange announces a delisting, withdraw to a wallet you control before the deadline: see what to do when an exchange delists Monero and the best Monero wallets.
Methodology and citation
Entries come from exchange notices, regulator publications and reputable news coverage; each row names its source. Journalists and researchers may cite this page; please link to it. Download the data as CSV on our press page. Corrections are welcome.