Kucoin added the KYC verification 1 or 2 years ago, but they didn't offer KYC for users in the USA
Despite this non-verified users have a limit of 2 BTC daily (see the mod comment on the link)


edit: BTW, You won't be able to do the KYC verification since the US isn't on the supported list https://kucoin.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000077006-Supported-Country-List

I just logged into the app and tried to withdraw. It seems like everything is fine (able to withdraw up to 2 BTC/24hours). I haven't received any emails from them except about their giveaway and partnership with WinPlay.app.

Edit: that's correct, I'm not from the U.S.

I haven't encountered so far Kucoin asking me to go mandatory KYC because I'm not trading a huge amount of funds, they ask these on whales and big time traders, the highest that I withdraw on KYC was $600 after that all my traders are below $200 so I'm still safe from this KYC thing.

Just to follow up on this: now there's no problem whatsoever, and I can log into Kucoin and it's like business as usual--very strange.  I wasn't kidding when I started this thread; they wouldn't let me access the site without going past a KYC step, and that had never happened before.  Sometimes they'll want to send a SMS as a security step, but this wasn't that.

Yeah, you always worry about crap like that, but I think Kucoin is a better exchange than that.  Hopefully.  I don't know too much about them but have been using them for a while--never for large trades, as I'm not a trader, and I never kept more than dust on Kucoin for longer than an overnight.  I don't think they were trying to scam me, but I don't know what they were doing to be honest.  

Very weird.  Guess I'll lock the thread now soon.  I'll keep it open for a little bit in case anyone wants to comment and hopefully people see that I wasn't forced to do the KYC procedures.

I appreciate the update. I'm still left wondering if you were on Kucoin's real site when this happened. If you were, maybe they are testing or rolling out new requirements.


They have a strong track record of mimicking what the other big exchanges do. If and when they start doing mandatory KYC, they will probably do like Binance and Deribit, giving people a 1-3 month grace period to withdraw their money.