REGULATORY RETREAT
Peach Shifts Away From Escrow Under Regulatory Squeeze
Peer-to-peer exchange stops holding dispute keys, restricting sell orders to high-reputation accounts and KYC sellers as European compliance burdens mount.
Peach Bitcoin enacted an immediate architectural change to its peer-to-peer exchange service on Tuesday, removing itself from direct multi-signature escrow involvement in response to evolving regulatory demands.
Under the revised arrangement, Peach will no longer hold the technical capability to settle disputes in favor of a buyer using single-signature fallbacks. Instead, sell orders will be restricted exclusively to accounts with established proof-of-work reputation built over the past four years, or existing users who have completed KYC verification.
In-app dispute will still be available but Peach won’t be able to settle in favor of the buyer anymore.
the team stated in its public briefing. The platform noted that buyer-side dispute interventions accounted for merely 0.03% of total trades over the past twelve months.
This new architecture is an experiment. A test to adapt to our latest regulatory context.
the exchange added, emphasizing that the change is designed to maintain non-custodial trading rails while insulating operations from expanding European oversight.
The move highlights an escalating divergence among peer-to-peer exchanges: adapting through reputation filters and identity verification on one hand, or transitioning entirely to decentralized protocols on the other.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Mostro Migrates Default Lightning Node, Ships v1.4.1
Parallel peer-to-peer trading network Mostro completed a scheduled node migration for its primary instance while rolling out version 1.4.1 of its mobile client. The release introduces direct Nostr Wallet Connect support for automated hold invoice processing alongside hardened dispute validation routines.
