Your Deribit account
is blocked?
Deribit gates everything behind verification: no deposits, no withdrawals, no trading and not even a deposit address until KYC is complete. Most blocked Deribit accounts are a verification state, not a compliance decision.
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Your account has been temporarily restricted due to unusual activity. Withdrawal and trading functions are currently unavailable.
Triggered: Terms of Use violation
Case ID: #BNX-2847-QRST
Last updated: 2 minutes ago
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Jurisdiction
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Year established
2016
Acquired by Coinbase · August 2025
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Deposit unavailable
Complete verification to generate a deposit address.
What it means
This is the clearest signal of an unverified account: Deribit states that to generate a deposit address you must have completed the KYC verification process.
What Deribit requires
Completing verification — nothing else unlocks it.
Your first step
Start the individual or corporate flow, whichever matches how the account is actually held.
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Why a Deribit account is blocked
Deribit publishes less about restrictions than it does about verification — because on this platform verification is the restriction.
KYC has not been completed
Deribit requires clients to complete personal verification before they have access to deposits, withdrawals or any trade-related activity. An account in this state is not restricted in the punitive sense — it has not been opened for use yet.
The verification submission was incomplete or inconsistent
Deribit states that where all required information is complete and accurate, verification is typically processed within two business days. The corollary is the common case: something is missing or does not match, and the clock has not started.
The wrong verification track
Deribit runs separate individual and corporate verification processes, each with its own requirements. A corporate structure pushed through the individual flow produces a rejection that looks like a block.
Automated verification could not complete
Deribit publishes a troubleshooting route for exactly this, and where automated verification will not work it directs clients to its compliance department for manual KYC rather than leaving them stuck.
Jurisdiction and eligibility
As a licensed derivatives venue — it holds a broker-dealer licence from Dubai's VARA — Deribit's access is bounded by where it may serve clients. That is a question of eligibility, and no document resolves it.
Deribit has been part of Coinbase since August 2025, when the acquisition closed. Support and compliance still run through Deribit's own channels, which is where a verification case belongs.
5 things that will make the situation worse
Do not treat an unverified account as a frozen one
Deribit requires KYC before deposits, withdrawals and trading. Nothing is being withheld — the account has not been enabled yet.
Do not resubmit the same failing verification
Deribit publishes a troubleshooting guide and a manual route through compliance precisely because repetition does not fix a submission the automation cannot read.
Do not use the individual flow for a company account
The corporate process has its own requirements. Running the wrong one produces failures that look like a block and are not.
Do not send documents to anyone outside Deribit's own channels
A KYC pack is a complete identity file. It goes through Deribit's support portal and compliance route, and nowhere else.
Do not assume the two-day figure applies to your case
Deribit conditions it on all required information being complete and accurate. If your submission was not, the two days have not started.
Deribit requires clients to perform personal verification (KYC) before they will have access to deposits, withdrawals or any trade related activity on the platform.
— Deribit, KYC requirements
What to check first on Deribit
Check the verification status
On Deribit this is the first question, not the last: deposits, withdrawals and trading are all gated behind it.
Confirm you are in the right track
Individual and corporate verification are separate processes with separate requirements.
Compare your submission with the requirements
The two-business-day figure Deribit publishes applies where all required information is complete and accurate.
Use the troubleshooting guide, then compliance
Deribit publishes both, and the manual KYC route through its compliance department is the documented escalation.
What Deribit may ask you for
Deribit's requirements are published as two separate tracks. Which one applies depends on who holds the account, not on what went wrong.
Individual verification
Deribit's 'Verify as Individual' process, completed before deposits, withdrawals or any trade-related activity are available.
Corporate verification
A separate 'Verify as Corporate' process with its own set of requirements for company-held accounts.
Whatever the troubleshooting guide identifies
Deribit publishes a KYC troubleshooting guide for submissions that will not complete automatically.
A manual KYC route through compliance
Where automated verification still will not work, Deribit directs clients to its compliance department to complete KYC manually.
Deribit states that where all required information is complete and accurate, KYC verification is typically processed within two business days. That figure is conditional, and completeness is the condition.
Deribit’s own pages on this
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What we actually do
Establish whether this is verification or something else
On Deribit the answer is usually verification, and that changes the whole shape of the case.
From: compliance@deribit.com
Your account flagged for suspicious activity. Please complete KYC verification.
Check the submission against the published requirements
Right track, right documents, consistent details. The two-business-day figure only applies when this holds.
Prepare the corporate file properly where it applies
Corporate verification asks for a different set of documents, and assembling them once is faster than discovering them one at a time.
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Clear facts
Documents
DON'T
Emotions
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Prepare the manual KYC approach
Where automation will not complete, the compliance route needs a clear, complete package rather than another attempt at the same upload.
Say when it is an eligibility question
A licensed derivatives venue serves the jurisdictions it may serve. Where that is the obstacle, no document changes it and we will say so.
The decision is always the exchange's. What we control is that your case reaches it complete, correct and on time.
Frequently asked questions
Why can't I withdraw from Deribit?
today 14:23
Deribit requires clients to complete personal verification before they have access to deposits, withdrawals or any trade-related activity. If verification is incomplete, withdrawals are unavailable for that reason rather than because of a restriction on the account.
unblock.exchange · today 14:23
Why can't I generate a deposit address on Deribit?
today 14:30
Deribit states that to generate a deposit address you must have completed the KYC verification process. It is the same gate.
unblock.exchange · today 14:30
How long does Deribit KYC take?
today 14:37
Deribit states that if all required information is complete and accurate, KYC verification is typically processed within two business days. The condition matters: an incomplete submission has not entered that window.
unblock.exchange · today 14:37
My Deribit verification keeps failing. What is the correct escalation?
today 14:44
Deribit publishes a KYC troubleshooting guide, and where automated verification still will not work it directs clients to its compliance department to complete KYC manually, through its own support portal.
unblock.exchange · today 14:44
Is Deribit still independent after the Coinbase acquisition?
today 14:51
Coinbase closed its acquisition of Deribit in August 2025, and Deribit operates as part of Coinbase. Verification and support for a Deribit account still run through Deribit's own channels.
unblock.exchange · today 14:51
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