Where is MEXC restricted?
MEXC is restricted in 23 of the 195 countries we cover: 
Belarus, 
Canada, 
China, 
Cuba, 
Cyprus, 
France, 
Honduras, 
India, 
Iran, 
Kazakhstan, 
Laos, 
Lithuania, 
Malaysia, 
Myanmar, the 
Netherlands, 
North Korea, 
Russia, 
Singapore, 
South Korea, 
Sudan, the 
United Kingdom, the 
United States and 
Uzbekistan.
Thirteen are named in the prohibited-jurisdictions clause of MEXC’s user agreement, last updated on 13 October 2026, which also names 
Hong Kong and the Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine. The same clause excludes any country under comprehensive EU or OFAC sanctions or on the FATF blacklist, which brings in Myanmar, and it calls the list non-exclusive. MEXC gives no reason for the named countries, but most have warned it: Malaysia’s Securities Commission put MEXC Global on its investor alert list in 2022, the UK FCA on its warning list in 2024, and Kazakhstan’s AIFC regulator names MEXC in a warning on unlicensed platforms.
Two are exits MEXC announced, and one is a regulator block. In India it paused new sign-ups from 15 January 2026 and suspended trading and deposits from 28 February while it seeks registration with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit. In the Netherlands it cut fiat services on 20 March and, according to its own guide to restricted regions, asks Dutch users to move their assets out by 31 October before final offboarding on 16 November 2026. In South Korea the FIU had MEXC’s app blocked in April 2025, CoinDesk reported, and its website blocked from 13 October 2026, according to News1, in the same action as KuCoin.
The other six come from our geo-access test: MEXC’s own location check refused France, Cyprus, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Honduras and Laos, although no MEXC document names them.
MEXC turned away 15 of the 23 at the door, with its own wording. The UK, Canada, Belarus and Russia, all on its list, and South Korea loaded with no barrier, and Iran, Myanmar and North Korea could not be tested. The full list, grouped by reason, is below.
| Category | Countries | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geographic block | On the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026). | 20 Oct 2026 | |
| Geographic block | No MiCA licence, and MEXC's own location check refused this country in our geo-access test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Geographic block | Not on MEXC's list, but MEXC's own location check refused this country in our geo-access test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Geographic block | Covered by the user agreement's catch-all for countries on the FATF call-for-action list (the FATF blacklist). | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| License requirement | MEXC is winding down Dutch accounts (assets out by 31 October, offboarding on 16 November 2026) after the AFM found it unlicensed under MiCA; its sign-up check refused a Dutch IP. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| License requirement | MEXC paused Indian sign-ups on 15 January 2026 and suspended trading and deposits from 28 February 2026 while it registers with FIU-IND. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Geographic block | Not on MEXC's list, but South Korea's FIU had its app blocked in 2025 and its website blocked from October 2026 as an unregistered foreign exchange. | 17 Oct 2026 |
Where is MEXC limited?
MEXC is limited in 32 countries: the 26 EEA countries it does not block, where it has no MiCA licence, plus 
Indonesia, 
Japan, the 
Philippines, 
Turkey, 
Ukraine and the 
United Arab Emirates.
For the EEA we rely on MEXC’s own guide, which says it holds no MiCA authorisation, and on ESMA’s list of non-compliant entities, where the Dutch AFM recorded on 16 September 2025 that MEXC Global was serving the Netherlands without a MiCAR licence. The other six come from regulators and MEXC’s terms. Japan’s FSA sent MEXC Global warnings in March 2023 and November 2024 for serving Japanese residents unregistered, and in February 2025 asked Apple and Google to pull its app, The Block reported. Türkiye’s Capital Markets Board ordered mexc.com blocked in December 2024, though the site loaded from a Turkish server in our test.
The Philippine SEC named MEXC among ten unregistered exchanges in August 2025, as BitPinas reported, after which the main internet providers restricted access. Dubai’s VARA warned in March 2026 that MEXC holds no Dubai licence, then fined its operator and ordered it to stop. In Indonesia MEXC says its app is not in the app stores, and in Ukraine its terms exclude Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Sevastopol.
Limited means MEXC does not exclude the country, but it has no licence there or something is cut back. Every limited country we reached loaded MEXC with no barrier, Japan and Turkey included. The countries and the reason for each are below.
| Category | Countries | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| License requirement | No MiCA licence: MEXC is not authorised in the EEA, and ESMA lists it as non-compliant after the Dutch AFM's decision of September 2025. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Partial service | MEXC says its app is not listed in Indonesian app stores; the website is not restricted. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Regulatory warning | Not on MEXC's list, but Japan's FSA warned MEXC in 2023 and 2024 for serving residents unregistered, and its app is not offered there. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Regulatory warning | Not on MEXC's list, but Türkiye's Capital Markets Board ordered mexc.com blocked in December 2024; the site loaded from a Turkish server in our test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Regulatory warning | Not on MEXC's own list, but named in the SEC's August 2025 advisory on unregistered exchanges, after which major ISPs restricted access. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Geographic block | The Russian-controlled regions (Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Sevastopol) are on MEXC's prohibited list; the rest of Ukraine is not. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Regulatory warning | VARA warned in March 2026 that MEXC holds no Dubai licence, then fined its operator in June 2026 and ordered it to stop serving Dubai. | 17 Oct 2026 |
Austria
Belgium
Czechia
Denmark
Hungary
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
SwedenWhere is MEXC available?
MEXC is available in the other 140 of the 195 countries we cover, from 
Bangladesh and 
Vietnam to 
Thailand and most of Africa and Latin America.
None of them hosts a MEXC licence. 
Syria we checked by name because of sanctions: it is not named in the terms or covered by the comprehensive-sanctions or FATF catch-all, and it has dropped off MEXC’s 2023 list. Belarus and Russia, checked the same way, are now named in the terms and restricted. The other 139 are available under our coverage rule: no MEXC or regulator document restricts them, and our test, where it reached, did not block them.
Our test loaded MEXC without a block in 77 of the 140. Available means MEXC does not exclude the country, not that local law allows crypto trading or that MEXC is licensed there; it is licensed nowhere we could check. The countries we hold a written row for are below.
| Category | Countries | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited-jurisdictions list (updated 13 October 2026), and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 07 Nov 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026) and its home and sign-up pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 18 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026), which is non-exclusive; our geo-access test loaded the site. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited list, and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Bangladesh is not on MEXC's prohibited list, and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 20 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Georgia is not on MEXC's list of places it does not serve (terms of 13 October 2026), and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Nigeria is not on MEXC's prohibited list, and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not named in MEXC's current user agreement (13 October 2026), and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited list of 13 October 2026, and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited list, and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited-jurisdictions list (13 October 2026), and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited-jurisdictions list (updated 13 October 2026). Our test refusal matches the one the same virtual address gets as a US visitor, so it does not count. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on MEXC's prohibited-jurisdictions list, and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 07 Nov 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026), and its home and sign-up pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 18 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026), and not blocked in our geo-access test. | 18 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026), which is non-exclusive; not on the CNV register; our geo-access test loaded the site. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Not on the prohibited-jurisdictions list in MEXC's user agreement (updated 13 October 2026); the site loaded in our test. | 07 Nov 2026 | |
| No restriction | Pakistan is not on MEXC's prohibited list, and its pages loaded in our geo-access test. | 19 Oct 2026 |
Chile
Colombia
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Peru
Uruguay
South Africa
Switzerland
Bahrain
Qatar
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
Venezuela
Morocco
Panama
Costa Rica
Israel
Taiwan
Argentina
PakistanWhere do MEXC’s visitors come from?
Bangladesh leads Semrush’s September estimate for mexc.com by far, and the United States, where MEXC does not serve anyone, is in the top three of both estimates we checked.
Semrush counts 17.89 million visits in September 2026, 30.93% of them from Bangladesh, ahead of Thailand at 6.03% and the United States at 5.23%. Similarweb’s own page was behind a search limit when we checked on 17 October, so we used its figures as published by BitRSS: 18.16 million visits in May 2026, led by Vietnam at 7.50% and the United States at 6.88%.
Three restricted countries sit in these lists, the United States, India and Singapore, and our test shows why they can appear: from the US, India and Singapore the home page loaded with no visible notice, and only MEXC’s location check refused the address, so price checks and research still count as visits. Estimators model traffic from panels and samples, so treat any single share as an estimate.
MEXC geo-access test: what we saw from 129 countries
In our test MEXC’s own location check refused 17 of the 133 places we reached, among them 15 of its 23 restricted countries, but a visible banner or pop-up appeared in only six.
We ran the test ourselves on 16 October 2026, with the same method as for every platform. A browser with a VPN connected to one country at a time and loaded MEXC’s home page and its sign-up page, each time in a fresh private window with no cookies. Cookie banners were hidden but never accepted, and bot checks were waited out, never solved. Every run saved the page text, a screenshot and the responses of MEXC’s own location service.
Of the 133 places tested (129 of our 195 countries plus Hong Kong, Macao, Puerto Rico and Taiwan), 59 of the countries went through VPN servers located there and 70 through virtual locations hosted elsewhere. A virtual location tests MEXC’s own blocking only; it cannot see a block run by a country’s internet providers, as in the Philippines.
BlockedChina · Home page
China: an Access Restricted pop-up over the home page, under MEXC's not-available banner
“To comply with local regulatory requirements, services are not available in your location.”
BlockedCuba · Home page
Cuba, through a virtual location: the banner and a MEXC Not Available in Your Region pop-up
“To comply with local regulatory requirements, services are not available in your location.”
BlockedFrance · Home page
France is not on MEXC's list, but the banner appeared, with a pop-up that named Germany as IP restricted
“To comply with local regulatory requirements, services are not available in your location.”
BlockedUzbekistan · Home page
Uzbekistan, also not on the list: the same banner and pop-up
“To comply with local regulatory requirements, services are not available in your location.”
BlockedNetherlands · Home page
Netherlands: no notice on the page, but MEXC's location check refused registration
“Due to local laws and regulations, this service is currently unavailable in your region.”
BlockedUnited States · Sign-up page
United States: the sign-up page looked normal, while MEXC's location check refused the address
“To comply with local regulatory requirements, services are not available in your location.”
BlockedHonduras · Sign-up page
Honduras, through a virtual location: on none of MEXC's lists, refused by the same check
No barrierUnited Kingdom · Home page
United Kingdom, on the prohibited list, loaded with no barrier
No barrier
Germany · Home page
Germany: no MiCA licence and a BaFin warning, but the page loaded with no notice
No barrierSouth Korea · Home page
South Korea loaded from our VPN server three days after the FIU ordered MEXC's website blocked
No barrier
Australia · Home page
Australia: the home page loaded with no barrier
No barrierTurkey · Home page
Turkey: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Brazil · Home page
Loads with no warning; Brazil is not on MEXC's prohibited list
No barrierPhilippines · Home page
Loaded with no barrier; a virtual location cannot see the block philippine internet providers apply
No barrierVietnam · Home page
No barrier: the home page loads normally
No barrier
Mexico · Sign-up page
Mexico: the sign-up page loads with no barrier
“Sign up on MEXC”
No barrier
Ireland · Home page
Ireland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
New Zealand · Home page
New Zealand: the page loads with no notice
No barrier
Saudi Arabia · Home page
Saudi Arabia: the home page loads with no barrier
No barrier
Norway · Home page
Norway: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Finland · Home page
Finland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Greece · Home page
Greece: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Bulgaria · Home page
Bulgaria: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Croatia · Home page
Croatia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Latvia · Home page
Latvia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Estonia · Home page
Estonia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Egypt · Sign-up page
Egypt: sign-up loads with no notice
BlockedLithuania · Sign-up page
Lithuania: the home page loads, then sign-up is refused with a regional message
“services are not available in your location”
No barrier
Slovenia · Home page
Slovenia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Iceland · Home page
Iceland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Georgia · Home page
Georgia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Serbia · Sign-up page
Serbia: sign-up loads with no barrier
CRYPTORESTRICTIONSThe test does not decide a country’s status on its own: official documents come first, and a page that loads is not permission to use MEXC.
Three patterns stand out. First, MEXC blocks more than its list: its location service answered France, Cyprus, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Honduras and Laos with the same refusal it gives listed countries, so we record them as restricted. Panama got the same refusal, but so does the same virtual address as a US visitor, so we do not count it. Second, most refusals are invisible. China, Cuba, Cyprus, France, Sudan and Uzbekistan saw a banner saying services are not available in your location, some with a pop-up, while in the US, Singapore, Malaysia and eight more the page looked normal and only the check behind it refused. That is the opposite of OKX, whose home page showed a pop-up in every listed country it reached. Third, the UK and Canada, both on MEXC’s list, passed every check, as did Germany, Japan and South Korea, three days after the Korean FIU’s website block took effect: that block runs through internet providers and did not reach our VPN server.
Iran, Myanmar and North Korea were not tested: our VPN offers no location in them. The full result for every country, with the exact message where there was one, is below.
All 133 test results, country by country
MEXC licences and registrations
MEXC holds no licence or registration that we could verify on any regulator’s register, and 12 regulators in 12 jurisdictions have taken action against it instead.
We checked ESMA’s register of MiCA-authorised providers, and the public registers and warning lists of the regulators in the chart; MEXC appears only as a warning or an enforcement case. Its user agreement names MEXC (Comoros) Ltd, a company registered in the Union of Comoros, as the operator. Regulators name other companies. Seychelles’ FSA said on 26 May 2026 that MX Global Ltd, registered there, operates the MEXC exchange and has never held a licence, and began enforcement. VARA’s alert named MEXC Estonia OÜ and MEXC Global LTD, and its notice of fines of 22 June 2026 found that MX Global Ltd served Dubai without a licence from 2022 to April 2026; VARA did not publish the amount.
The warnings go back to 2022. Besides those above, Hong Kong’s SFC put MEXC on its alert list in March 2024 for targeting Hong Kong investors without a licence, British Columbia’s securities commission cautioned in August 2023 that MEXC is not recognised or registered there, and Germany’s BaFin warned in October 2023 that MEXC offered financial services without authorisation. The only fine is Dubai’s.
MEXC and MiCA in the EU
MEXC has no MiCA licence and has not said where it will apply. It is leaving the Netherlands, its own location check blocks France, Cyprus and Lithuania, and the other 26 EEA countries are limited.
MiCA is the EU’s crypto rulebook, and from 30 December 2024 it required exchanges serving EU clients to hold an authorisation from one member state (our MiCA article covers the rules). Firms already operating under national law could carry on until 1 July 2026 at the latest, and ESMA said in its statement of 17 April 2026 that serving EU clients without a licence after that is a breach of EU law. MEXC was not on ESMA’s register of authorised providers when we checked on 17 October. In April 2026 its new chief executive called a MiCA application a top strategic priority, Cointelegraph reported, without naming a country.
MEXC is one of three centralised platforms in our MiCA dataset without a licence, with Binance and Bitget, whose EU company at least applied in Austria in July 2026. The Dutch case is the clearest: the AFM’s warning of 24 September 2025 said MEXC illegally offers crypto-asset services in the Netherlands, and MEXC’s exit followed a year later.
MEXC MiCA timeline
MEXC’s pages loaded with no notice in all 25 of the 26 limited EEA countries we reached (Malta was not tested), so for most of the EEA nothing at the door tells a visitor that MEXC has no licence. MEXC’s guide tells EU and EEA readers to use a MiCA-authorised provider instead. We record them as limited until MEXC is authorised or publishes an exit.
Is MEXC available in the US?
No: the United States is on the prohibited list in MEXC’s user agreement, and MEXC has no US company or licence.
When we loaded mexc.com from a US address on 16 October 2026, the home page showed no notice, but MEXC’s location check refused the sign-up page with the message that services are not available in your location. Identity verification is the second barrier: MEXC accepts verification only from countries it does not restrict and rejects ID documents issued by them. We found no action by a US federal regulator against MEXC.
MEXC regulator actions and market moves: timeline
MEXC’s record is one of warnings and blocks from many places rather than one large case. The pace picked up in 2025 and 2026, when Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Dubai and Seychelles all acted, and MEXC itself started to pull back: India in January and February, mandatory identity checks in February, and the Netherlands from March.
MEXC KYC and identity verification
MEXC requires identity verification before any deposit, withdrawal or trade: since 5 February 2026 an unverified account can only view market data.
MEXC’s announcement of 5 February 2026 made verification a condition of using the platform, citing its anti-money-laundering framework. Its KYC guide describes two personal levels. Primary needs a photo of an ID card, passport, driving licence or residence permit and allows withdrawals of up to 80 BTC a day; Advanced adds a facial recognition selfie and raises the limit to 200 BTC. Proof of address, dated within the last three months, is a separate step on the website. Review usually takes about 15 minutes.
The checks also enforce the country lists. MEXC accepts verification only from users in countries it does not restrict, and its FAQ says the document must not be issued by a restricted country. A deposit made before verification can be held until it is done, and users who cannot verify can apply for withdrawal-only access.
MEXC verification history
For years MEXC was one of the exchanges people used without verifying, and its rules tightened in steps. A June 2022 notice doubled the daily BTC withdrawal limits to 80 BTC at Primary and 200 at Advanced. In August 2025 MEXC restricted withdrawals on flagged accounts until they passed Advanced verification, and the February 2026 announcement ended unverified trading altogether. For how MEXC’s checks compare with other exchanges, see our guide to crypto exchange KYC.
What if MEXC is restricted where you live?
It depends on the country: of the 21 other platforms we track, 20 are available in Honduras, 19 in Laos and 13 in Malaysia, but only one in Cuba, Iran or North Korea.
A VPN is no route around it. MEXC’s terms make every user confirm they are not accessing MEXC from a prohibited jurisdiction and let it close the account and liquidate positions for a false location, verification refuses documents from restricted countries, and in our test MEXC’s location check refused 16 of its 21 restricted countries. What is left is a platform that is allowed to serve you where you live.
The chart shows how much choice each restricted country has. The EEA countries MEXC blocks keep plenty, with four open centralised exchanges each, many under MiCA licences. India, Malaysia and Singapore keep several too. Honduras, Laos, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan keep 14 to 20 open platforms, most of them centralised exchanges, and in Cuba, Iran and North Korea one platform we track is available.
Each country page lists every platform we track there with its status and sources; start from our country index.
