Soda Labs

Turkey

Caps, delays and a compelled purpose description

JurisdictionEuropeRestricts anonymity

Anonymity-enhancing assets or unattributed transfers are barred outright, or barred for regulated firms.

What Turkey actually says

Turkey reaches the same destination as an anonymity ban without ever writing one. No primary instrument prohibiting anonymity-enhancing tokens was found. What exists instead is a stack of operational controls that make routine confidentiality impractical at licensed venues: value caps on transfers, doubled only if the full travel rule dataset is collected, a mandatory waiting period before withdrawal, a declaration requirement for anything touching an unhosted wallet, and a compelled free-text description of what every transfer is for. Each measure is individually defensible as anti-fraud policy. Together they amount to a regime where a licensed Turkish venue cannot process a transfer it does not have a stated reason for.

The instruments that matter

Law No. 7518, July 2024
places crypto service provider licensing with the Capital Markets Board, with establishment and capital rules set by communiqués published 13 March 2025
Travel rule from 25 February 2025
expanded originator data above TRY 15,000; transfers to or from unhosted wallets require a customer declaration, and transfers with unresolved information gaps are returned or rejected
Communiqués 28 and 29, June 2025
stablecoin transfer caps of USD 3,000 daily and USD 50,000 monthly, doubled where full travel rule data is collected, with higher caps for other crypto assets
Withdrawal delays and purpose text
a 48-hour delay on withdrawals, 72 hours on the first, plus a minimum 20-character description of every transfer's purpose

What this means for confidential transactions

Bubble is built for exactly this shape of obligation: amounts and balances live on chain as ciphertexts, computation happens without decryption, and the only disclosure path is an on-chain access list through which an authorized party - an auditor, a supervisor, a counterparty - can request scoped decryption. That is confidentiality from the public, not from the regulator.

Compliant by default.

See how selective disclosure satisfies a supervisor without publishing your book to the world.