Some exchanges started delisting xrp and privacy coins including Dash, and I understand they are scared from regulations but I don't understand why they included Dash in this list.
Please see :
https://twitter.com/RTaylor05/status/1345158205685436416US government agencies mislabeled Dash as an Anonymity Enhanced cryptocurrency (AEC). Some exchanges seem to base their delisting action on that labeling.
Dash is a fork of Bitcoin, has just like Bitcoin an open blockchain where transactions, senders and receivers can be publicly viewed and analyzed.
Both Bitcoin and Dash use a form of CoinJoin to optionally provide users with privacy on their transactions.
From a regulator stance or from a legal stance there is no difference between Dash and Bitcoin. Yet Dash is labeled an AEC, and Bitcoin is not. That is unjustified.
Link :
https://media.dash.org/wp-content/uploads/Dash-PrivateSend-Legal-Position-EN.pdfOther possible reasons : Dash is still regarded by many in the crypto scene as a privacy-centric coin. Dash used to be a privacy-centric coin in 2014/2015
when Dash introduced (as first altcoin) its optional privacy feature, but has since then focused on payments by making them instant, secure, protected against double spending
and instantly spendable by receivers.
These days Dash is focusing more on functioning as a decentralized platform where developers can create Dapps and store their Dapps data directly on the masternodes network (kinda like cloud storage) and making transactions far more user-friendly by introducing blockchain identities, blockchain usernames, paying to blockchain usernames, introducing a decentralized API.
Dash announces new update, social payment wallet enters testnethttps://cointelegraph.com/news/dash-announces-new-update-social-payment-wallet-enters-testnetDash Launches Public Alpha for Social Payments Wallethttps://bitcoinist.com/dash-launches-public-alpha-for-social-payments-wallet/Dash Platform and the DashPay Dapp are currently live on Dash Testnet and are scheduled for release on Dash Mainnet in Q1, 2021
DashPay Dapp demo :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtTaezpxQOs &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2CrHyQMVISome exchanges services when deciding to delist privacy coins, may have included Dash because of a wrong perception of Dash (that Dash is still a privacy-centric coin or that Dash has a
private closed-off blockchain).
Hopefully Ryan Taylor (CEO of Dash Core Group) can get in touch with the US government officials (the DOJ and FinCEN are mentioned), to have at least the mislabeling corrected.
Difficult though, with the transition of political power in the US and COVID-19 also rampaging in the US (and in the whole world).
Educating exchanges what Dash is and what Dash is not, is still an important task for Dash Core Group. Now more then ever.