France Leads 111% Surge in Coinbase Data Requests as International Pressure Rises

1. Coinbase handled 12,716 government and law-enforcement requests in the 2025 cycle.
2. France recorded a 111% jump in requests, the highest among all countries.
3. 53% of all requests came from outside the U.S., marking a new peak.

Coinbase’s latest Transparency Report for Oct 2024–Sep 2025 shows another year of rising scrutiny, with 12,716 official information requests recorded.

This marks a 19% increase from the previous period and reflects how quickly regulators around the world are responding to the growth of digital assets. Even with the increase, the total remains within the 10,000 to 13,000 range seen over the past four years.

Source: Coinbase

A major shift came from outside the United States. For the first time, 53% of all requests were filed by agencies in other regions, setting a new high. The U.S. still remained the single largest source of requests, followed by Germany, the U.K., France, Spain, and Australia.

However, the sharpest rise came from France, where requests jumped 111% compared to last year. Spain saw a 27% increase, the U.K. 16%, and Australia 1%.

Source: Coinbase

On the other side, several countries registered declines. Germany dropped by 5%, Sweden by 31%, and South Korea by 67%. Meanwhile, Moldova recorded the most dramatic shift, increasing by a factor of 5.7, and Brazil rose 2.7 times.

The company said these changes reflect shifting enforcement activity as different countries refine their approaches to crypto oversight.

How Coinbase Processes Incoming Requests

The company is available in more than 100 countries, and any such growth in its international reach naturally leads to a higher number of interactions with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies.

In 2025, the company had received orders from more than 60 countries. These could be subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and other legal processes linked with civil or criminal investigations.

Source: Coinbase

The company said that each request is carefully reviewed to ensure it complies with the law. If an order is too broad or ambiguous, Coinbase tries to curtail it. Some requests fall short of legal bars; the company denies them those.

The company also said it’s committed to protecting user privacy by providing aggregate or anonymized request stats where available, instead of giving over details tied to an individual customer.

The bulk of requests globally “continued to be focused on criminal enforcement matters, as they have been for a number of years,” the company reported.

Coinbase stressed that it does not allow any government direct access to customer data stored in accordance with its processes within its systems or the systems of vendors that run its infrastructure. All disclosure is formally reviewed, and there are procedures.

Transparency as a Core Part of Operations

Coinbase said transparency remains essential to the trust users place in its platform. The company hopes to demonstrate how it weighs privacy concerns with legal obligations by disclosing these numbers and explaining how requests are processed.

The report includes all of Coinbase’s products, such as Coinbase.com, Exchange, and Prime. The post provides perhaps the clearest view yet of how government requests have evolved as crypto has started to take off.

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