ShapeShift Removes Monero and Dash Cryptocurrencies From Listing

Shapeshift cryptocurrency exchange delusted anonymous cryptocurrencies Monero and Dash. The reason for this decision could be a growing attention of the regulators to confidential cryptoactives.

As a representative of Shapeshift said, Delistral was carried out on the trading platform anonymous cryptocurrencies XMR and Dash. The exchange did not warn users about the exclusion of cryptocurrencies from Listing in advance and did not make an official statement about this.

Shapeshift does not specify, Was divisting coins were carried out as part of the reorganization of business processes or at the request of regulators. Founder and General Director of the Exchange Eric Wurchis (Erik Voorhees) said:

“We decided to delusting Monero a few months ago, But now I can’t give additional comments on this subject ".

Regulators are increasingly interested in transactions of anonymous cryptocurrencies. According to the last report of the Europol on the assessment of threats of organized crime on the Internet for 2020 year, Anonymous cryptocurrencies and wallets with confidentiality functions were recognized as “main threats”.

Recall also, that last month the US Tax Service (IRS) I chose Chainalysis and Integra FEC to create tools for tracking transactions of anonymous Monero cryptocurrency and second -level protocols.