# Is Monero banned in 2026?

> Source: https://fuckyc.org/q/is-monero-banned/
> Last verified: 2026-05-12

**Short answer:** No country bans private possession of Monero in 2026. Several jurisdictions have restricted exchanges from listing it; that affects on-ramps, not the protocol or your wallet.

In 2026, no major jurisdiction makes private possession or peer-to-peer use of Monero illegal. The regulatory pressure has been on exchanges and money-services businesses, not on individuals. Binance, OKX, Kraken (in some regions), and most EU-domiciled exchanges have delisted XMR over 2023-2025 under MiCA-adjacent pressure or local equivalent. The Monero protocol is open-source, the network is global, and wallets like Feather, Cake, and Monerujo work over Tor everywhere. The practical effect of the regulatory pressure is that no-KYC fiat-to-XMR on-ramps have narrowed to P2P venues (AgoraDesk, Bisq, Haveno) and to instant-swap exchangers (Trocador, FixedFloat, Exolix) rather than mainstream CEXes.

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