{"id":31423,"date":"2020-11-08T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31423"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:34:54","slug":"shapeshift-quietly-delists-monero-and-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/shapeshift-quietly-delists-monero-and-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"ShapeShift quietly delists Monero and Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency platform ShapeShift quietly delisted the privacy-focused coins Monero and Dash, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/47508\/shapeshift-quietly-delists-monero-privacy-coin\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Decrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>ShapeShift gained popularity for enabling cryptocurrency swaps without registration and even the minimal data required.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The publication noted that, due to regulators&#8217; data requirements, the platform ceased providing services to residents of New York in 2015, and later to Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2018 the platform launched a membership program that involves collecting user data, which drew criticism from the cryptocurrency community.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Founder and CEO Eric Voorhees stated that introducing an identity-verification procedure allowed the platform to pre-empt legal risks.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Privacy-focused coins such as Monero and Dash attract heightened regulatory scrutiny. For this reason, many centralized exchanges <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/australian-exchanges-drop-monero-and-other-anonymous-cryptocurrencies-from-listings\">delisted<\/a> them from the listing.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Monero lead developer Riccardo Spagni, in an interview with ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ricardo-spagni-monero-privacy-attribution-is-a-major-misconception\">noted<\/a> that the privacy attributed to the cryptocurrency is a misconception.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The Dash team also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dash-a-cryptocurrency-for-payments-not-for-privacy\">stated<\/a> that their coin should not be considered anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, analytics firm CipherTrace, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ciphertrace-unveils-monero-transaction-tracing-tool\">developed<\/a> a tool for tracing Monero transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>For tax authorities, such a solution <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/irs-to-task-chainalysis-with-tracking-monero-transactions\">will create<\/a> Chainalysis, which also tracks transactions in Dash.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShapeShift quietly delisted privacy-focused coins Monero and Dash, according to Decrypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,211,513,595],"class_list":["post-31423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-dash","tag-monero","tag-shapeshift"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31424,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423\/revisions\/31424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}