QuantCapFinCEN withdrew two proposals that had hung over self-custody and crypto mixers for years without ever taking effect.
U.S. scraps proposed $10,000 reporting rule for for crypto sent to private wallets
FinCEN withdrew two proposals that had hung over self-custody and crypto mixers for years without ever taking effect.
FinCEN withdrew a 2020 proposal that would have required banks and crypto businesses to report transfers of more than $10,000 involving customers’ self-controlled wallets. The agency also scrapped a 2023 proposal that would have subjected transactions involving crypto mixers to additional reporting requirements. FinCEN said the withdrawals, neither of which had taken effect, advanced the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda and effort to create “fit-for-purpose” digital-asset rules.
The U.S. Treasury Department has scrapped a years-old proposal that would have forced banks and crypto businesses to collect and report more information when customers sent large amounts of crypto to wallets they controlled themselves.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, withdrew the rule Sunday along with a separate proposal targeting transactions involving crypto mixers. Neither had ever taken effect.
The wallet proposal dates to December 2020, during the final weeks of the first Trump administration.
It would have required banks and money-service businesses such as crypto exchanges to file reports when customers sent more than $10,000 in crypto to or from so-called unhosted wallets, including transactions that crossed the threshold when added together over 24 hours. Firms would also have had to collect information about the customer and the wallet on the other side of the transfer.
An unhosted wallet is one where a person controls the private keys themselves rather than leaving the assets with an exchange or bank.
The proposal drew thousands of public comments and remained unresolved for nearly six years.
FinCEN also withdrew a 2023 proposal that would have classified crypto mixing transactions as a category of primary money-laundering concern, allowing the government to impose additional reporting requirements on financial institutions handling them.
The agency said both withdrawals were part of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda and an effort to make digital-asset rules “fit-for-purpose.”
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