Anyone in Germany who wants to buy Monero will no longer find the coin at the large trading venues. On October 5, 2026 we went through the publicly available trading pair lists of eight exchanges. At Bitpanda, Bitvavo, Coinbase, Bitstamp, Gate.io and OKX there is not a single XMR pair. At Kraken five XMR pairs are listed, among them XMR/EUR, but they have been blocked for customers in the European Economic Area since the end of 2024. That leaves KuCoin with four pairs, and there both a euro market and authorisation for the German market are missing.
The coin itself is untouched by this. XMR costs around €499 and reaches a market capitalisation of about €9.4 billion, up 2.8 percent on Monday. Holding and custody are permitted in Germany. What falls away is the convenient route via an authorised exchange, and there are two concrete legal bases for that, with two different dates.
Eight exchanges checked: where XMR was still in the trading list on October 5, 2026
For the count we pulled the market lists that each exchange publishes, and searched them for the ticker XMR. The list says what an exchange carries in principle. Whether ...
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