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Ukraine still has not regulated the crypto market.
The volume of shadow crypto transactions is worth comparing to the gambling business. Yes, the gambling business in Ukraine has gone from 240 million UAH in year 2021 to 17,4 billion UAH in year 2025, and that is not the end. At every stage, the monetization of this market increased tax revenues multifold. However, understanding the real scale of cash flows in the gambling business is still far off. The same can be said about the real volume of shadow crypto transactions. This is written by journalist and TV host 1+1 Evgeniy Plinsky in the article “Catch Crypto If You Can.”
In the author's view, despite the enormous but as yet potential tax resource of this market, the budget receives no revenues from the crypto industry.
“The current legislative non-regulation not only suits organizers of schemes but also entangles more and more clients. Why pay taxes and limit yourself in transactions, informing the state about them, when there is such a wonderful loophole? And almost legal,” he notes.
The danger lies not only in lost state taxes, but also in using cryptocurrency to evade sanctions, launder corrupt funds, and move them out of the country.
Sources at the National Bank of Ukraine and law enforcement agencies with an economic focus roughly estimate the volume of the shadow crypto-asset market related to individual players in Ukraine.
Table 1. Major operators of the crypto-asset market in Ukraine.
Name
Average annual volume, USDT
1. ObmenAT24 (“KIT GROUP”)
545 692 019
2. 001K
388 276 689
3. C1k
327 333 238
4. Exchange 24/7
246 884 441
5. www.change
https://t.me/wwwchange
https://t.me/Wwwchange24
226 920 142
6. Liberty_exchange
17 441 506
7. anyexchange.best
89 083 641
8. X-change
64 405 633
9. Cashflow.best
33 967 502
10. The_bitok
2 142 922
11. cashoutbiz
1 804 449
The annual volume of crypto operations of unknown origin reaches almost 2 billion dollars (and that is far from all the subjects). Such scale requires not only government attention but urgent legislative regulation.
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