CoinEx Exits as 5 Exchanges Capture 88% of Trading Volume
Rising compliance costs are colliding with a market where Binance alone captured 43.3% of August volume, leaving smaller venues with less room to absorb fixed obligations.
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Rising compliance costs are colliding with a market where Binance alone captured 43.3% of August volume, leaving smaller venues with less room to absorb fixed obligations.
CoinEx joins BitMart and BitMEX in 2025's exchange shutdown wave, a tell that mid-tier venues are being squeezed by shrinking retail spot volume and rising compliance costs.
The roughly three-month withdrawal window and the 5% monthly fee on anything left behind make this less a graceful exit than a clock that starts ticking the moment a user does nothing.
Two years after a $70M hot-wallet breach blamed on North Korea's Lazarus Group, the 2017-founded venue becomes the latest major centralized exchange to fully exit, putting orderly withdrawals…
Users have until December 22 to withdraw funds, making the withdrawal window the most urgent operational detail for anyone with assets on the platform.
The closure follows a cascading timeline of service cuts through December, with rising regulatory overhead across major jurisdictions cited alongside shrinking volumes as the twin forces that made…
The TRM Labs report flags one of the largest spot-derivative venues by volume as a primary on-ramp for sanctioned-jurisdiction flows, a designation that puts the exchange's compliance program under…
The headline figure is striking, but the alleged $6M of IRGC-linked wallet exposure and a U.S. sanctions backdrop turn this from a compliance slip into a potential enforcement flashpoint for the…
The total is roughly equal to CoinEx's entire 2023 trading volume, and the IRGC and sanctioned Russian counterparties on the counterparty list turn this from a compliance story into a sanctions story.
The figure is unusually large for a single sanctioned-jurisdiction channel, and it lands on a venue already on US watchlists, sharpening the enforcement read for every other mid-tier exchange.
The Wall Street Journal tied the exchange to wallets linked to Iran's central bank and to the $1.5B Bybit hack, escalating a sanctions-evasion case that now names a venue, a central bank, and North…