Recital 30

(30) Compared to transfers of funds, transfers of crypto-assets can be carried out across multiple jurisdictions at a larger scale and higher speed due to their global reach and technological characteristics. In addition to the pseudo-anonymity of crypto-assets, those features of transfers of crypto-assets offer criminals the opportunity to carry out at high speed large illicit transfers while circumventing traceability obligations and avoiding detection, by means of structuring a large transaction into smaller amounts, using multiple seemingly unrelated DLT addresses, including one-time use DLT addresses, and using automated processes. Most crypto-assets are also highly volatile and their value can fluctuate significantly within a very short timeframe which makes the calculation of linked transactions more uncertain. In order to reflect those specific features, transfers of crypto-assets should be subject to the same requirements regardless of their amount and of whether they are domestic or cross-border transfers.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.