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10/06/2026 10:34 pm
TL;DR: Crypto firms are shifting from growth-at-all-costs toward verification accuracy, with 74% prioritising accuracy over onboarding speed and 55% reporting fraud in 2025, according to Sumsub’s State of the Crypto Industry report. The real lesson for identity teams is that compliance, fraud resilience, and user experience now function as one operating model, not separate workstreams.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Sumsub: State of the Crypto Industry 2026
By the numbers:
- 74% now prioritizing verification accuracy over user onboarding speed.
- 55% of surveyed companies confirmed they experienced fraud at least once in 2025.
- user pass rates continued to improve gradually, reaching 94% of all verification attempts on average.
Questions worth separating out
Q: How should crypto platforms balance verification accuracy and onboarding speed?
A: Treat verification accuracy as the primary control objective and onboarding speed as a constrained user experience metric.
Q: Why do crypto firms struggle with fraud even when verification rates improve?
A: Because a better pass rate does not eliminate adversarial adaptation.
Q: What do security teams get wrong about reusable identity in crypto?
A: They often treat reusable identity as a pure convenience feature.
Practitioner guidance
- Rebuild onboarding metrics around decision quality Measure false positives, false negatives, and downstream fraud loss alongside pass rate and time to verify.
- Link fraud monitoring to identity proofing controls Treat onboarding, behavioural analytics, and transaction monitoring as one chain of trust.
- Define explicit reuse boundaries for portable identity Document where reusable identity is permitted, what assurance level is required, and which events force re-verification.
What's in the full report
Sumsub's full report covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- Survey breakdowns by region, including how APAC, Europe, North America, LATAM, and Africa differ in fraud pressure.
- Pass-rate and verification-performance data from Sumsub's internal analysis across 2023 to 2025.
- Readiness details on Travel Rule implementation, including how many platforms are already fully ready or actively implementing FATF Recommendation 16.
- Examples of how non-doc and reusable identity are being used in real crypto onboarding models.
👉 Read Sumsub's State of the Crypto Industry 2026 report →
Crypto verification in 2026: are compliance and UX finally converging?
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11/06/2026 2:39 am
Crypto verification is now an identity governance problem with fraud, compliance, and UX fused into one control surface. The report shows that 74% of firms are prioritising verification accuracy over onboarding speed, which means the market is already accepting that fast approval is not the right success metric on its own. That shift matters because once trust decisions become high-volume and cross-border, identity governance has to cover proofing, review, and auditability together. Practitioners should treat verification design as part of identity architecture, not a downstream operations task.
A few things that frame the scale:
- 72% of organisations have experienced or suspect they have experienced a breach of non-human identities, with 46% confirmed and 26% suspected, according to The 2024 ESG Report: Managing Non-Human Identities.
- Two-thirds of enterprises have endured a successful cyberattack resulting from compromised non-human identities, and a quarter have encountered multiple attacks.
A question worth separating out:
Q: Who is accountable when verification failures trigger regulatory action?
A: Accountability sits with the organisation operating the verification and compliance controls, not with the fraud pattern itself. Regulators focus on whether proofing, monitoring, escalation, and recordkeeping were adequate for the jurisdiction and product model. In crypto, failures in customer verification and AML controls can become suspension or fine events very quickly.
👉 Read our full editorial: Crypto verification is shifting from speed to control in 2026
