Starting from July 1, 2027, the EU will completely ban privacy coins like Monero, Zcash, and Dash, and even mixers, the so-called 'money laundering machines', will be wiped out! This is not a joke—the EU Parliament has just passed the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) which directly sentences anonymous transactions to 'life imprisonment'.

Think about it, the ring signature technology of Monero, the zero-knowledge proofs of Zcash, these once celebrated 'black technologies' by hackers and money launderers, are now ticking time bombs on the road to compliance. Even more extreme, while self-custody wallets have not been directly banned, as long as transfers exceed 1,000 euros, exchanges will have to strip your identity information like a census: name, address, source of funds—none can escape!

The market response is even more surreal: as soon as the news broke, the prices of privacy coins plummeted, yet the next day Monero actually rose by 5%! This operation has made retail investors exclaim, 'The stricter the regulation, the stronger the faith.' However, experts warn that this is just the calm before the storm—once the deadline of 2027 arrives, these coins will either undergo a transformation or completely disappear.