{"id":426795,"date":"2026-05-09T04:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/zondacrypto-hit-with-investor-warning-by-estonia-financial-regulator-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:43:07","slug":"zondacrypto-hit-with-investor-warning-by-estonia-financial-regulator-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/zondacrypto-hit-with-investor-warning-by-estonia-financial-regulator-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Zondacrypto Hit With Investor Warning by Estonia Financial Regulator &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Estonia&#8217;s Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority (FSA), the country\u2019s financial regulator, issued an investor warning for BB Trade Estonia O\u00dc, the company that operates the Zondacrypto digital asset exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The FSA <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fi.ee\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-05\/hoiatusteade-bb-trade-estonia-ou.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">said<\/span><\/a> the company did not have a white paper listed on its website for the \u201cTeamPL\u201d crypto token listed on the crypto exchange, a violation of the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework. According to the FSA:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis action violates Article 9, Section 1 of [MiCA], according to which crypto-asset white papers shall remain available on the website of the offerors or persons seeking admission trading for as long as the crypto-assets are held by the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>The investor warning for Zondacrypto and its parent company. Source: <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fi.ee\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-05\/hoiatusteade-bb-trade-estonia-ou.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Estonia FSA<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph reached out to Zondacrypto but did not receive a response by the time of publication. <\/p>\n<p>The investor warning follows news of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/zonda-crypto-4500-btc-wallet-inaccessible-withdrawal-crisis\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">withdrawal issues at the Zondacrypto exchange<\/span><\/a> and an investigation into the company by Polish law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/europe-mica-regime-smaller-crypto-firms\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Europe\u2019s MiCA regime puts smaller crypto firms under pressure<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Zondacrypto faces investigation following withdrawal and access issues<\/h2>\n<p>In April, Zonda CEO Przemys\u0142aw Kral <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/przemyslaw_kral\/status\/2044763900541854094\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">said<\/span><\/a> the exchange did not have access to a cold wallet containing about 4,500 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at about $360 million at the time of writing. <\/p>\n<p>Kral claimed that the wallet\u2019s private keys were never handed over by Sylwester Suszek, the founder and former CEO of Zondacrypto, who has been missing since 2022. He also denied rumors that the exchange is insolvent, adding that it would meet all customer obligations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=896,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=360,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 360w, https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=720,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 720w, https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=728,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 728w, https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=896,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 896w, https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1456,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 1456w, https:\/\/resizer.ctmedia.io\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1792,q=90\/https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 360px, (max-width: 1024px) 728px, 896px\" width=\"896\" height=\"881\" data-original=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/screenshot-2026-05-08-at-40859-pm.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Kral&#8217;s last post on the X social media platform was published on April 16, 2026. Source: <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/przemyslaw_kral\/status\/2044763900541854094\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Przemys\u0142aw Kral<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polish investigators initiated a probe into the company in April, following reports from users of withdrawal issues and the inability to access funds.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, Kral has gone silent on social media, with no new posts since April 16. Local media outlets reported that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/zonda-crypto-ceo-vanish-prosecutor-probe-poland\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he flew to Israel<\/span><\/a>, where he is a citizen, amid the probe by Polish law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he told Cointelegraph that the company is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/poland-crypto-bill-second-veto-firms-seek-mica-abroad\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">based outside of Poland<\/span><\/a> because the country has not brought its crypto regulations in line with the EU\u2019s MiCA framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we are a company with Polish roots and the largest player in the crypto industry on the Polish market, we have been operating outside Poland for years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magazine: <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-magazine.com\/guide-top-emerging-global-crypto-hubs-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Guide to the top and emerging global crypto hubs: Mid-2026<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia&#8217;s Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority (FSA), the country\u2019s financial regulator, issued an investor warning for BB Trade Estonia O\u00dc, the company that operates the Zondacrypto digital asset exchange. The FSA said the company did not have a white paper listed on its website for the \u201cTeamPL\u201d crypto token listed on the crypto exchange, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-426795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426799,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426795\/revisions\/426799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}