ChangeNOW and CoinRabbit Release Joint Research on Financial Privacy in Digital Assets

Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 4th, 2026, Chainwire The new report maps the illicit and legitimate uses of crypto privacy tools, drawing on data from TRM Labs, Chainalysis, the RAND Corporation, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Statista, and U.S.

Treasury Department disclosures. It argues that the current regulatory focus is aimed at the wrong layer of the transaction stack.

Today, ChangeNOW, a cryptocurrency super app, and CoinRabbit, crypto asset management platform, announced the joint release of “Financial Privacy in the Digital Age,” a research report that looks at the use, abuse, and regulation of privacy-preserving technology in cryptocurrencies.

Balancing Legitimate Need Against Illicit Exploitation In order to determine whether privacy technology does more harm than good, the research pits the actual volume of illicit exploitation against the urgent necessity for discretion in the real world.