No restriction found
Mexico
No privacy-coin rule found. A 2019 Banxico rule bars banks and fintechs from offering crypto services to clients; Bitso lists no privacy coins.
The rule
- Exchange listing
- Allowed
- Holding by individuals
- Allowed
- Mixers
- No specific rule
- Self-hosted wallets
- Not checked
- Confidence
- Not verified
Banco de México Circular 4/2019, published on 8 March 2019 and in force from the next day, lets banks and financial technology institutions use virtual assets only for internal operations with prior Banxico authorisation, and makes requests to provide clients with exchange, transmission or custody services ineligible (rule 3.a). Authorisation requests must describe protocol features that allow transactions to be followed and transaction records to be freely accessed (rule 6.a, IV, b); this concerns traceability but does not name or bar privacy coins. A decree published on 16 July 2025, in force the next day, amended the anti-money laundering law (LFPIORPI) so that platforms offering virtual asset exchange as a vulnerable activity must obtain, keep and make available accurate information on the originator, recipient and any beneficial owner of virtual asset operations (art. 17, XVI); it names no privacy coins or mixers. No rule was found that bars exchanges from listing privacy coins or that targets mixers, and on 13 October 2026 Bitso's public API showed no Monero, Zcash or Dash markets. Not checked: the general rules under the LFPIORPI, which the decree required to be updated within twelve months, the consolidated text of the law and any later amendments to the circular.
Instrument: Banco de México Circular 4/2019; LFPIORPI, art. 17, XVI (as amended on 16 July 2025)
Sources
- Circular 4/2019 del Banco de México sobre operaciones con activos virtuales
- Decreto por el que se reforman y adicionan diversas disposiciones de la Ley Federal para la Prevención e Identificación de Operaciones con Recursos de Procedencia Ilícita, y se reforma el artículo 400 Bis del Código Penal Federal
- Bitso API v3: available books
Exchanges and their restrictions
The 14 exchanges on this site, with the 32 spot markets they list for the seven coins, as checked on 13 Oct 2026. The exchange data records where each listing is restricted as text, so this page quotes each passage that names Mexico, and marks the cells it comes from. An exchange with no such passage has no restriction for Mexico on record here, which does not mean that it is licensed there or open to its residents. A listing is not an endorsement.
Swipe the table sideways to see all seven coins.
| Exchange | ZECZcashSpot on 11, perp only on 1 | XMRMoneroSpot on 6, perp only on 3 | DCRDecredSpot on 6 | ZANOZanoSpot on 1 | ARRRPirate ChainSpot on 2 | XVGVergeSpot on 4, perp only on 3 | FIROFiroSpot on 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binance | Restricted +perpApr 2025Shielded in: noShielded out: no | DelistedFeb 2024Perp only | RestrictedApr 2025 | Never listed | Never listed | Listed +perpWithdrawals frozen | DelistedApr 2025 |
| Coinbase | Listed +perpNov 2018Shielded in: yesShielded out: no | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed |
| Kraken | Restricted +perpJun 2026Shielded in: unknownShielded out: no | Restricted +perpJun 2026 | RestrictedMay 2026 | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed |
| OKX | Listed +perpNov 2025Shielded in: unknownShielded out: unknown | DelistedJan 2024 | DelistedJul 2024 | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed |
| Bybit | DelistedFeb 2025Perp only | Never listedPerp only | DelistedNov 2024 | Never listed | Never listed | Never listedPerp only | Never listed |
| Bitget | Listed +perpDec 2025Shielded in: unknownShielded out: unknown | Never listedPerp only | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listedPerp only | Never listed |
| KuCoin | Listed +perpJul 2019Shielded in: unknownShielded out: no | Listed +perpMar 2019 | ListedSep 2018 | Never listed | DelistedSep 2023 | Never listedPerp only | Never listed |
| Gate | Listed +perpShielded in: unknownShielded out: unknown | Restricted +perp | Listed | Never listed | ListedWithdrawals frozen | Restricted | Restricted |
| HTX | Listed +perpDec 2022Shielded in: noShielded out: no | Listed +perpDec 2022 | ListedDec 2022 | Never listed | Never listed | ListedDec 2022 | DelistedSep 2025 |
| MEXC | Listed +perpShielded in: unknownShielded out: unknown | Listed +perp | Listed | ListedDec 2023 | ListedJan 2024 | Listed +perp | Listed |
| Gemini | RestrictedMay 2018Shielded in: yesShielded out: yes | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed |
| Bitfinex | Listed +perpOct 2016Withdrawals frozenShielded in: unknownShielded out: unknown | ListedNov 2016 | DelistedMar 2022 | Never listed | Never listed | DelistedDec 2024 | Never listed |
| Crypto.com | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed | Never listed |
| Upbit | DelistedSep 2019 | DelistedSep 2019 | DelistedDec 2020 | Never listed | Never listed | DelistedMay 2020 | DelistedMay 2020 |
Passages that name Mexico
No passage of the exchange data names Mexico.
Self-hosted wallets for the seven coins
The nine wallets on the Wallets page that hold at least one of the seven coins, with the coins and platforms each supports. The wallet data does not record where each wallet is offered, so this list is the same on every country page, and Mexico's own rules, set out above, apply to their use. A listing is not an endorsement.