{ "title": "Privacy coin offboarding tracker: XMR, ZEC and DASH delistings ahead of the EU AMLR ban", "description": "Dated log of exchange delistings and relistings of Monero, Zcash and Dash, with scope and stated reason, tracked against the July 10 2027 EU AMLR Article 79 prohibition. Maintained alongside the human readable tracker page.", "publisher": "CoinVast Research", "canonicalPage": "https://coinvast.io/articles/privacy-coin-offboarding-tracker-2027", "dataUrl": "https://coinvast.io/data/amlr-offboarding.json", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "CoinVast Research — https://coinvast.io/articles/privacy-coin-offboarding-tracker-2027", "contact": "info@coinvast.io", "lastFullCheck": "2026-08-11", "updatePolicy": "Updated when a venue announces an offboarding, executes one, or reverses one. Announcement and effective dates are recorded separately because the gap between them is the window holders actually get.", "methodologyNote": "Rows enter this log only when a delisting is announced by the venue or reported by an established outlet, and only when a date can be attached. Aggregate counts come from published industry tracking through late 2025.", "regulation": { "instrument": "Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (AMLR)", "article": "Article 79", "appliesFrom": "2027-07-10", "prohibits": "Regulated institutions (banks, financial institutions, licensed crypto service providers) from keeping anonymous accounts and from providing accounts or services for anonymity enhancing coins.", "doesNotProhibit": [ "Owning privacy coins", "Holding them in self custody", "Peer to peer transfers between individuals", "Non custodial software" ], "supervisor": "AMLA, alongside national competent authorities", "edgeCases": "No published guidance yet on assets with optional privacy such as Litecoin MWEB. Dash argues its optional CoinJoin should not classify it as a privacy coin, but venues have swept it in regardless." }, "aggregate": { "exchangesDelistedAtLeastOnePrivacyCoin": { "end2023": 51, "late2025": 73, "changePct": 43 }, "note": "The count rose through a period when privacy coin demand was strong, including a Zcash price surge in 2025. Venue access and demand are separate trends.", "caveat": "The 51 and 73 counts come from published industry tracking, not from our own census. Treat them as order of magnitude." }, "keyInsight": { "yourDeadlineIsEarlier": "July 10 2027 is the legal backstop, not the operative date. Kraken removed Monero across the EEA on 2024-10-31, roughly 32 months before the prohibition applies. The governing date is whichever comes first: your venue's own offboarding announcement, your venue exiting your market entirely, or the legal deadline.", "twoKindsOfDelisting": { "commercial": "Can reverse. OKX removed Zcash in 2023 and relisted it in November 2025 when demand returned during a price surge.", "regulatory": "Does not reverse. Kraken's EEA removal reflects a jurisdiction rather than a demand curve, and after 2027-07-10 the question is settled in law." }, "typicalNoticePeriod": "Weeks rather than months, and venues routinely disable deposits before announcing anything publicly. Kraken's Ireland and Belgium removal in June 2024 was followed by the full EEA removal that October." }, "events": [ { "announced": "2026-01-25", "effective": "2026-01-25", "venue": "India, FIU registered venues", "coins": [ "XMR", "ZEC", "DASH" ], "scope": "India", "action": "halt", "statedReason": "AML compliance. Bybit was fined 9.27 crore rupees in the same sweep", "source": "Indian financial press, January 2026" }, { "announced": "2025-11", "effective": "2025-11", "venue": "OKX", "coins": [ "ZEC" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "relist", "statedReason": "Renewed demand during a Zcash price surge", "note": "Demonstrates that commercially driven delistings can reverse, unlike regulatory ones.", "source": "Market reporting, November 2025" }, { "announced": "2025-04", "effective": null, "venue": "Binance", "coins": [ "ZEC" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "delisting-vote", "statedReason": "Placed on a community delisting vote during periodic listing review; still listed as of 2026", "source": "Exchange announcement, April 2025" }, { "announced": "2024-10-31", "effective": "2024-10-31", "venue": "Kraken", "coins": [ "XMR" ], "scope": "Entire European Economic Area", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Regulatory pressure in the EEA", "note": "Roughly 32 months before the AMLR prohibition applies. The clearest evidence that venues offboard early.", "source": "Exchange announcement and press coverage, October 2024" }, { "announced": "2024-06", "effective": "2024-06", "venue": "Kraken", "coins": [ "XMR" ], "scope": "Ireland and Belgium", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Local regulatory requirements", "source": "Exchange announcement, June 2024" }, { "announced": "2024-05", "effective": "2024-05", "venue": "LocalMonero", "coins": [ "XMR" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "shutdown", "statedReason": "No single stated reason; the largest XMR peer to peer marketplace closed entirely", "source": "Platform announcement, May 2024" }, { "announced": "2024-02-20", "effective": "2024-02-20", "venue": "Binance", "coins": [ "XMR" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Routine listing review; travel rule compliance widely read as the real driver", "note": "Leftover balances were converted to USDC, an example of forced conversion.", "source": "Exchange announcement, February 2024" }, { "announced": "2024-01-05", "effective": "2024-01-05", "venue": "OKX", "coins": [ "XMR", "ZEC", "DASH" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Listing criteria and user feedback, per the announcement", "source": "Exchange announcement, January 2024" }, { "announced": "2022", "effective": "2022", "venue": "Huobi", "coins": [ "XMR" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Compliance with financial regulations", "source": "Exchange announcement, 2022" }, { "announced": "2021", "effective": "2021", "venue": "Bittrex", "coins": [ "XMR", "ZEC", "DASH" ], "scope": "Global", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Regulatory pressure; the notice gave little detail", "source": "Exchange notice, 2021" }, { "announced": "2021", "effective": "2021", "venue": "South Korea, licensed venues", "coins": [ "XMR", "ZEC", "DASH" ], "scope": "South Korea", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "Travel rule pressure under Korean AML law", "source": "Korean regulatory coverage, 2021" }, { "announced": "2018", "effective": "2018", "venue": "Japan, FSA licensed venues", "coins": [ "XMR", "ZEC", "DASH" ], "scope": "Japan", "action": "delist", "statedReason": "FSA pressure following a regulatory review", "source": "Japanese regulatory coverage, 2018" } ], "coinStatus": { "XMR": "Heaviest losses on regulated venues, strongest position off them. Removed by Binance (global, 2024) and Kraken (EEA, 2024). Protocol level privacy with no transparent mode. FCMP++ upgrade still in testing as of 2026-08-11. Never listed by Coinbase, so claims of a Coinbase XMR delisting are false.", "ZEC": "Most volatile listing history of the three because privacy is optional (transparent or shielded). That optionality buys venue tolerance: OKX relisted it in November 2025 and Binance still listed it in 2026 despite an April 2025 delisting vote.", "DASH": "Optional CoinJoin (PrivateSend) rather than protocol level privacy. The project argues it should not be classified as a privacy coin, but venues and regulators have swept it in alongside XMR and ZEC repeatedly, including Bittrex (2021), OKX (2023 and 2024) and India's FIU (2026)." }, "whatHappensToYourCoins": [ { "pattern": "Trading halts, withdrawals stay open", "impact": "Least painful. Move to self custody during the window and lose nothing but time." }, { "pattern": "Forced conversion", "impact": "The venue converts your balance at a price and time it chooses. Binance converted leftover XMR to USDC after its 2024 delisting." }, { "pattern": "Withdrawal only, then closure", "impact": "Trading stops, withdrawals continue for a defined period, then the door closes. What happens to remaining balances depends on the venue's terms." }, { "pattern": "Regional restriction, account intact", "impact": "The asset becomes unavailable because of where you live while trading continues elsewhere. Kraken's EEA pattern." } ], "warningSigns": [ "Deposits for the asset disabled while withdrawals stay open, often weeks before any announcement", "Trading pairs thinning out, from several down to one", "The asset quietly removed from marketing pages, app listings and on-site search while still tradable", "Support answers about that coin becoming vague or templated", "In the EU, the venue lacking MiCA authorisation, since a full market exit takes its privacy coin listings with it" ], "userPlaybook": [ "Find out where your privacy coins actually sit, including dormant accounts on venues you stopped using", "Move to self custody while nothing is happening, not in the queue that forms after an announcement", "Set up and test the wallet with a small amount before moving the rest", "Decide deliberately whether to keep or convert, rather than letting a venue decide the timing and price", "Export trade history and statements before access degrades", "Do not plan around July 2027; treat any EU-serving venue as able to announce next month" ], "unverifiedClaims": [ { "claim": "Coinbase delisted Monero, Zcash, Dash and Horizen on 2026-04-07, announced 2026-03-30.", "status": "excluded", "reason": "The claim asserts Coinbase delisted Monero, but Coinbase has never listed XMR. Coinbase's chief executive stated publicly that XMR would not be listed for the foreseeable future. An exchange cannot delist an asset it never offered.", "handling": "The entire item was dropped rather than keeping the Zcash and Dash portion, because a source that gets a checkable fact provably wrong cannot be trusted for the parts that are harder to check.", "wouldReinstateIf": "A primary Coinbase announcement is published for assets it actually listed.", "checkedOn": "2026-08-11" } ] }