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By Steven Anderson
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What's Driving the Compliance Push. Regulatory pressure is the obvious answer. Globally, governments and financial watchdogs have…
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The Gaps That Still Exist. But here's the thing — 47% means 53% aren't there yet.
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What Firms Need to Do Now. The path forward, per Chainalysis, involves more investment — in internal processes, in…
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Nearly half of all crypto companies onboarded in 2026 are operating under compliance standards that the industry would have called elite just five years ago.
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The 47% figure is worth sitting with for a second. Five years ago, the compliance bar Chainalysis is referencing was basically reserved for the most cautious, most heavily…
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Regulatory pressure is the obvious answer. Globally, governments and financial watchdogs have spent the last several years tightening their grip on crypto, and firms that didn't…
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There's also a trust dimension here. Institutional investors, banking partners, payment processors — none of them want to touch a crypto firm that can't show a clean compliance…
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And it's not just the big firms, either. The Chainalysis data covers newly onboarded companies broadly, which means smaller players are also stepping up.
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But here's the thing — 47% means 53% aren't there yet. And that's a lot of firms still operating below what the industry's own strictest standards looked like half a decade ago.
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See also: Bitcoin Miners Ditch Rigs for AI Servers as U.S. Crypto Laws Stall
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What kinds of gaps? Chainalysis doesn't get super specific in the findings, but the general picture is familiar.
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Smaller operations probably feel this most acutely. Compliance technology, compliance personnel, legal counsel — none of it is cheap.
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The path forward, per Chainalysis, involves more investment — in internal processes, in technology, and in staying ahead of regulatory changes rather than scrambling to catch up…
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See also: UK Crypto Rules Could Push Staking Firms Out of Britain, FCA Critics Warn
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Agility matters here as much as anything. Compliance isn't a box you check once. Regulations keep evolving, and a framework that worked last year might need serious updating by…
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