Kazakhstan court puts Coinbase alongside UK- and EU-sanctioned HTX in app store crackdown

Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial Centre Court named Coinbase and six other crypto platforms—BingX, Bitcoin.com, HTX, BitMart, LBank and WEEX—in an order asking Apple and Google to geo-block their apps in Kazakhstan, the Astana Financial Services Authority disclosed on October 20, 2026. The September 15, 2026, ruling bars the platforms from providing or promoting digital-asset services in the AIFC until licensed; LBank’s claim was dropped after it blocked access. The AIFC is a special financial hub with its own licensing rules. The move follows Kazakhstan’s 2023 block of Coinbase’s website under a law prohibiting unlicensed crypto trading outside the AIFC.