The American crypto company Coinbase, which owns the bitcoin exchange of the same name, announced the end of servicing Russian investors.
Another marketplace, Kraken, said it was ready to follow the same path. However, it needs an order from the relevant supervisory authorities, said its CEO, Jesse Powell.
On the evening of February 28, it also became known about the plans of the Qmall crypto exchange to block user accounts from Russia and Belarus. In addition, the trading platform announced on Twitter the freezing of assets of Russian and Belarusian traders.
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Earlier it became known that Russian and Belarusian accounts blocked the KUNA and CEX IO platforms.
At the moment, only one Binance exchange has officially refused to leave the Russian market and continues to work here. Last Monday, the administration of this company announced that it had no plans to stop servicing millions of accounts from the Russian Federation.
Cryptocurrencies are tools for financial freedom, and it is harmful to restrict people's access to them when they have technical difficulties in making transactions with assets, a Binance spokesman emphasized.