With the Supreme Court of India postponing the crypto hearing, the Indian crypto community is calling for better protection when trading on P2P platforms. Several top crypto exchanges in the country have shared their processes and policies they have implemented to protect their P2P platform users.
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A Standard KYC Protocol
With the Indian supreme court postponing hearing the arguments against the banking restriction by the central bank, crypto traders in India will have to continue using peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platforms to buy and sell cryptocurrencies for INR. In addition, the government has decided not to introduce the bill to ban cryptocurrencies in the Winter session of parliament.
Since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) banned financial institutions from providing services to anyone dealing in cryptocurrencies, a number of local crypto exchanges began offering P2P trading to their users. However, according to Indian news analysis platform Crypto Kanoon, there are problems some people are facing when using these platforms. “Many users of P2P exchanges are facing bank account seizure & FIRs,” Crypto Kanoon explained last week. “Money they received for selling crypto was sent from hacked bank accounts … Enquiry reveals that the culprits often use fake KYC docs.”
“Hackers are easily able to create accounts on your exchanges either with fake ID’s or through identity theft,” Crypto Kanoon alleged, directing questions at local crypto exchanges concerning their anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorism funding (ATF) and know your customer (KYC) policies. Crypto Kanoon further wrote:
Do you think that the time has arrived when all the virtual assets services providers in India need to join hands together and design a standard
