Short answer first, because this is the question people keep typing into search bars and asking their AI assistants: most large regulated exchanges have dropped Monero, and as of July 14, 2026, XMR still trades on instant swap services, DEX and atomic swap venues, and a shrinking set of centralized exchanges, all listed below.
This page is a tracker. We update it when a venue changes status. Last full check: July 14, 2026.
Why does this page exist? Because there is no maintained, authoritative answer to "which exchanges still list Monero" anywhere on the internet. Delisting announcements are scattered across exchange blogs that get deleted, news articles that never get corrected, and Reddit threads that were right for about six weeks. Half the pages ranking for this question were written in 2024 and still tell you things that stopped being true before they were published. So we built the page we wished existed: the full delisting log with dates and stated reasons, and an honest list of where XMR actually trades right now.
One disclosure before we start. We run CoinVast, an instant swap service that supports Monero natively. That makes us one of the venues on the "still lists XMR" side of the ledger, so read our takes with that in mind. We have tried to be fair to every other option, including the ones that compete with us.
The Monero delisting log, newest first
Here is every major delisting event we could pin to a date and a source. Newest at the top. If a venue you remember is missing, it is because we could not verify the date or the details well enough to print them, and we would rather have a shorter list that is right.
| Date | Venue | What happened | Stated reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2026 | India (FIU) | The FIU clarified it had issued no formal delisting order; the January takedowns stood anyway | Exchanges acted on AML guideline interpretation, not a formal ban |
| January 25, 2026 | India (FIU registered exchanges) | FIU directed registered exchanges to halt privacy coin trading, deposits, and withdrawals (XMR, ZEC, DASH); exchanges complied, and Bybit was fined 9.27 crore rupees in the same sweep | AML compliance |
| May 2024 | LocalMonero | The largest XMR peer to peer marketplace shut down entirely | No single stated reason; the climate around privacy coins is the obvious backdrop |
| 2024 | Kraken | Removed XMR for EEA and UK users | Local regulatory requirements |
| February 2024 | Binance | Delisted XMR globally | Routine listing review; travel rule compliance is widely read as the real driver |
| Early 2024 | OKX | Removed privacy pairs including XMR, ZEC, and DASH | Listing criteria and user feedback, per the announcement |
| 2022 | Huobi | Dropped privacy coins including XMR | Compliance with financial regulations |
| 2021 | Bittrex | Removed XMR, ZEC, and DASH | Regulatory pressure; the notice gave little detail |
| 2021 | South Korea (all licensed exchanges) | Privacy coins removed across licensed venues | Travel rule pressure under Korean AML law |
| 2018 | Japan (FSA licensed exchanges) | Privacy coins pushed off licensed exchanges | FSA pressure following a regulatory review |
Sources: exchange announcements, FIU statements as reported in Indian financial press, and ByteTree's May 2026 privacy sector analysis. All read July 2026.
A note on a name you might expect to see: Coinbase is not in the table because Coinbase has never listed XMR. There is nothing to delist. Any article telling you Coinbase "dropped Monero" is confusing it with other privacy assets or just making things up.
The India story, both halves
The January 2026 India sweep deserves more than a table row, because most coverage only tells you half of it.
Half one: on January 25, 2026, India's Financial Intelligence Unit directed registered exchanges to halt trading, deposits, and withdrawals for privacy coins, naming XMR, ZEC, and DASH. Exchanges complied fast. Bybit was fined 9.27 crore rupees in the same enforcement sweep. If you held Monero on an Indian registered exchange in late January, you watched it happen in real time.
Half two, the part that rarely gets reported: on March 10, 2026, the FIU clarified that it had never issued a formal delisting order. The takedowns flowed from how exchanges interpreted AML guidelines under enforcement pressure, not from a written ban. The coins came off anyway, and they stayed off.
Both halves are true, and together they tell you something important about how privacy coin delistings actually work. Nobody has to ban anything. A regulator applies AML pressure, exchanges do the risk math, and the asset disappears from the order book. The formal legal status of Monero in India barely changed. Its availability collapsed. That same pattern, pressure rather than prohibition, explains most of the rows in the table above.
How many exchanges have dropped Monero, and why
According to ByteTree's May 2026 analysis, 73 exchanges had delisted at least one privacy coin by late 2025. There is no public master list behind that number, so treat it as a sector estimate rather than a registry. But the direction is not in dispute. The count only ever goes up.
So why is this happening? Three forces, all pulling the same way.
The travel rule. Most AML regimes now require exchanges to collect and transmit sender and receiver information on crypto transfers. Monero is engineered so that transaction data is hidden by default, which makes that requirement somewhere between painful and impossible to satisfy. An exchange facing a choice between rebuilding its compliance stack around one asset or delisting that asset will delist almost every time. We walk through the mechanics in our travel rule explainer.
MiCA. The EU's licensing framework hit its final transition deadline on July 1, 2026. Every crypto service provider serving the EU now needs MiCA authorization, and authorized firms carry AML obligations that sit badly with anonymity by design. Most of them resolved the tension the easy way, before the deadline even arrived.
The AMLR, arriving July 10, 2027. This is the big one still ahead. Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, Article 79, prohibits credit institutions, financial institutions, and crypto asset service providers from servicing anonymity enhancing coins from July 10, 2027. It does not ban owning Monero, holding it in self custody, or sending it peer to peer. But it removes any remaining ambiguity for regulated EU venues: after that date, servicing XMR is not a compliance risk, it is a prohibition. We cover the full text and its limits in our piece on the EU privacy coin rules coming in 2027. Expect the delisting log above to grow a few EU shaped rows between now and then.
Where Monero still trades, as of July 2026
Now the half of the question that actually helps you. Where can you buy Monero in 2026? Four categories, honestly described.
| Category | Examples | Account needed? | The honest catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instant swap services | CoinVast (native XMR on a self hosted node); several others exist | No | You pay a spread on the quote; some services can hold funds for extra checks after you deposit |
| DEX and atomic swap venues | Haveno, BasicSwap | No | Thin liquidity and a genuine learning curve |
| Peer to peer remnants | Smaller P2P boards and communities that outlived LocalMonero | Varies | Counterparty risk is yours; escrow quality varies widely |
| Some non EU centralized exchanges | Varies by region | Yes, usually full KYC | Listings change with little notice; check the venue directly before relying on it |
Status as of our July 14, 2026 check; availability shifts, so verify before moving funds.
Instant swap services. These let you send one asset and receive another with no account and no email. CoinVast is one of them: we run our own Monero node, screen the deposit and payout addresses before you send anything, and print a flat 2% spread over mid market on every quote. We are not the only option, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we will say is that the swap model varies more than it looks from the outside, and the biggest difference is when screening happens. Some services screen after your coins arrive, which is how people end up in the "send documents or lose your funds" trap known as shotgun KYC. If a swap service supports exchanging into Monero, it is worth five minutes to find out how it handles a flagged deposit before you send one.
DEX and atomic swap venues. Haveno is a decentralized Monero exchange; BasicSwap does cross chain atomic swaps. These are the most censorship resistant options on the list, and nobody can delist anything from them, which is exactly the point. The honest catch: liquidity is thin compared to what centralized order books used to offer, spreads reflect that, and the setup has a real learning curve. If you are comfortable running software, syncing wallets, and waiting for a counterparty, they work. If you want your XMR in twenty minutes, they will frustrate you.
Peer to peer remnants. LocalMonero, the biggest P2P venue, shut down in May 2024, and nothing has fully replaced it. Smaller boards and community markets survive. They function, but the burden of vetting your counterparty is entirely on you, and escrow arrangements range from solid to theoretical. If you go this route, move slowly, insist on escrow where it exists, and start small.
Non EU centralized exchanges. Some centralized venues outside the EU still carry XMR pairs, and availability varies heavily by region. We are deliberately not naming names here, for one simple reason: this is the category where listings change fastest and with the least notice, and a specific recommendation printed today can be wrong by the time you read it. If a centralized listing matters to your plans, check the venue's own listing page and its deposit and withdrawal status the same day you intend to use it. Do not rely on a blog post. Including this one.
Why delisting is not death
If you only read the delisting log, you would assume Monero is circling the drain. The market data says otherwise, and it is worth sitting with the contradiction for a minute.
Per ByteTree's May 2026 analysis, Zcash rose over 800% in 2025 and Monero roughly 130%, with privacy coins briefly outperforming the broader crypto market before pulling back. Those are point in time figures from one research house, and a big percentage move on a small base is still a small market, so do not read this as investment advice. We are not licensed advisors and this page is not that. But as a signal about demand, it is hard to ignore: the same year that regulated exchanges accelerated their exits, the assets they were exiting went up.
What actually happened is that the volume moved rather than vanished. When a listing disappears from a regulated order book, the people who wanted that asset do not stop wanting it. They route around the missing listing, into instant swaps, atomic swap venues, and P2P channels that do not have listing committees. We laid out the numbers behind that migration in our state of crypto privacy report and looked at where the sector goes next in our privacy coins market outlook.
There is a limit to the optimism, and honesty requires stating it. Non custodial venues carry thinner liquidity, wider effective spreads, and more user responsibility than the exchanges that left. The delistings made Monero harder to use for ordinary people, and no price chart cancels that out. "Not death" is the accurate claim. "No damage" would be a lie.
What to do if your exchange announces a Monero delisting
Delisting notices follow a pattern: trading halts on one date, deposits stop, and withdrawals close some weeks later. The people who lose money are almost always the ones who ignored the notice until the last week. Here is the sequence that avoids that.
Step 1: Read the notice and write down the actual deadlines
There are usually two or three separate dates: the trading halt, the deposit cutoff, and the final withdrawal deadline. They are not the same day, and the withdrawal deadline is the one that matters most. Some venues auto convert leftover balances to another asset at a rate you did not choose, and some simply freeze what remains. Put the withdrawal deadline in your calendar, minus a week.
Step 2: Set up a self custody wallet before you move anything
Do not withdraw to an address you have not tested. Install a proper Monero wallet, back up the seed phrase offline, and confirm you can restore it. Our Monero wallet guide compares the current options for desktop, mobile, and hardware. This step takes an evening and removes the single biggest failure mode, which is rushing wallet setup during deadline week.
Step 3: Withdraw well before the cutoff, starting with a test amount
Send a small test withdrawal first, confirm it lands in your wallet, then move the rest. Withdrawal queues get congested near deadlines because everyone waits, and support teams are slowest exactly when you need them most. Aim to be fully out at least a week early. Coins in a wallet you control cannot be stranded by anyone's compliance department.
Step 4: Map your future swap route while you still have options
Once your XMR is in self custody, the exchange that delisted it is no longer your problem, but you still need a route for the next time you want to enter or exit the asset. Test one now, while nothing is urgent. A BTC to XMR swap through an instant service takes minutes and needs no account; atomic swap venues are slower but need no third party at all. Knowing your route in advance means a future delisting is an inconvenience, not a crisis.
Step 5: Export your records for tax before you lose access
A delisting does not erase your tax obligations, and once your account access degrades, reconstructing trade history is miserable. Export your full transaction history, deposit and withdrawal logs, and any statements the exchange offers, and store them with your records. Swaps between crypto assets are taxable events in most places, and the rules are covered in our crypto swap tax guide.
Which route should you pick?
Different situations point to different venues, so here is the honest sorting.
Pick an instant swap service if you already hold crypto and want XMR (or want out of XMR) without creating an account, and you value speed over squeezing the last basis point. The fair comparison point is total cost on the final quote, not the advertised fee. And check when the service screens: before you send is fine, after you send is where the horror stories come from.
Pick a DEX or atomic swap venue if censorship resistance is the entire point for you, you are technically comfortable, and you can tolerate thinner liquidity and slower fills. Haveno and BasicSwap cannot delist Monero. That guarantee costs convenience, and for some people it is worth every bit of it.
Pick peer to peer if you need a fiat entry or exit that no swap service offers, and you are prepared to vet counterparties yourself. The vetting burden never goes away, so treat every new counterparty as unproven.
Pick a remaining centralized exchange if you specifically need an order book, limit orders, or deep liquidity, you are outside the affected jurisdictions, and you accept full KYC plus the real possibility that the listing disappears with a month's notice. Whatever you do, do not store XMR there long term. The table at the top of this page is a list of venues where people thought they had more time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which exchanges still list Monero in 2026?
As of July 14, 2026, most large regulated exchanges no longer list XMR. It still trades on instant swap services (CoinVast among them), decentralized and atomic swap venues like Haveno and BasicSwap, surviving peer to peer channels, and some non EU centralized exchanges where availability varies by region. Centralized listings change with little notice, so verify with the venue directly before relying on one.
Why was Monero delisted from Binance?
Binance delisted XMR globally in February 2024, framing it as a routine listing review. The widely understood driver is travel rule compliance: AML rules require exchanges to collect and pass on transaction information, and Monero hides that information by design. Rather than carry the regulatory risk, Binance dropped the asset, the same calculation most large exchanges have made since.
Where can I buy Monero in 2026?
Instant swap services let you convert other crypto to XMR with no account in minutes. Atomic swap venues like Haveno and BasicSwap work without any intermediary but have thinner liquidity and a learning curve. Peer to peer channels and some non EU centralized exchanges remain options depending on your region. Buying with fiat directly is the hardest path, since most fiat on ramps are regulated venues that no longer carry XMR.
Did India ban Monero?
Not formally, and the full story has two halves. On January 25, 2026, India's FIU directed registered exchanges to halt privacy coin trading, deposits, and withdrawals, and Bybit was fined 9.27 crore rupees in the sweep. Then on March 10, 2026, the FIU clarified it had issued no formal delisting order; exchanges had acted on AML guideline interpretation. The coins stayed delisted anyway, so the practical effect resembles a ban even though no ban exists on paper.
Is it legal to own Monero after all these delistings?
In most countries, yes. Delisting is a decision by an exchange about what it will carry, not a law about what you may own. Even the EU's AMLR, the strictest rule coming, prohibits regulated firms from servicing anonymity enhancing coins from July 10, 2027 but does not ban personal ownership, self custody, or peer to peer transfers. Check your local rules, since a few jurisdictions are stricter.
Will the EU ban Monero in 2027?
The AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) applies from July 10, 2027, and Article 79 bars banks, financial institutions, and crypto asset service providers from servicing anonymity enhancing coins. That ends regulated EU exchange support for XMR, but it is not an ownership ban: holding Monero, self custody, and peer to peer transfers remain legal. Expect EU venues that still carry privacy assets to delist them well before the deadline.
What happened to LocalMonero?
LocalMonero, the largest peer to peer Monero marketplace, shut down in May 2024 after roughly seven years of operation. The team did not give a single official reason, though the tightening climate around privacy coins is the obvious backdrop. Its closure removed the main P2P route for cash to XMR trades, and smaller community markets have only partially filled the gap.
Is Monero dying because of the delistings?
The listings are shrinking; the asset is not obviously dying. According to ByteTree's May 2026 analysis, Monero rose roughly 130% in 2025 while Zcash rose over 800%, even as the delisting count climbed past 73 venues. Trading has migrated from regulated order books to instant swaps, atomic swap venues, and P2P channels. Harder to access is the accurate description, not dead.
The tracker promise
This page is a tracker, not an article we wrote once and abandoned. We update it when a venue changes status, and we date every claim so you can judge its freshness. Last full check: July 14, 2026. If you spot a change we missed, we want to know.
And the honest closing note: we run CoinVast, a no account instant swap that supports Monero natively on our own self hosted node, screens addresses before you send anything, and prints a flat 2% spread on every quote. We are young (launched 2026), we are not the cheapest number you will see advertised, and we are not a fiat on ramp. But if you need to move between Bitcoin and Monero without handing over your identity, that is exactly the job we built the service to do. Whatever venue you choose, keep your XMR in a wallet you control between trades. The whole table above is one long argument for that.