Cryptex
0.0/10 total
This service no longer exists. It is kept in the table so that outdated guides recommending it can be checked against reality. Treat any site currently using this name as hostile.
Seized on 26 September 2024, when the US Secret Service's Cyber Investigative Section acting with the Dutch FIOD and Netherlands police took the web domains and infrastructure of Cryptex, PM2BTC and UAPS. OFAC sanctioned Cryptex and Sergey Sergeevich Ivanov the same day under Executive Orders 13694 and 14024, and FinCEN separately named PM2BTC a primary money laundering concern, a designation that cuts it off from US financial institutions. Cryptex was registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines but operated from Russia. Neither cryptex.net nor pm2btc.me resolves today.
Scores
Weights are published in the method and applied identically to every entry.
For
Nothing that still applies.
Against
- Domain and infrastructure seized 26 September 2024 by US and Dutch authorities.
- OFAC-sanctioned, so any dealing with the operator carries sanctions exposure for US persons.
- PM2BTC, run by the same designated individual, was named a FinCEN primary money laundering concern on the same date.
- Balances were fully custodial and subject to the seizure.
- A 10 million dollar State Department reward for information on the operator remains outstanding, which is the opposite of a settled wind-down.
Agent access 0/10
No reachable endpoint; the hostname does not resolve.
Reported separately and not counted in the total. It measures what an autonomous agent can do unattended, not whether the service is safe to use.
Fees
n/a
No longer quotable. Domain seized and the operator sanctioned.
Specification
- Type
- Custodial exchange
- KYC policy
- No KYC
- Custody model
- custodial
- Account required
- yes
- Assets
- n/a
- Chains
- n/a
- Operating since
- 2018
- Jurisdiction
- undisclosed
- Onion service
- no
- Works without JS
- no
- Open source
- no
- Facts checked
- 2026-07-31