Uphold Relists Nine Altcoins in Canada, Including Shiba Inu, Cardano, Dogecoin, and Others

Roughly one month after disabling the trading of certain assets for Canadian investors, Uphold has relisted some of these assets, excluding VET.

In December, leading crypto exchange Uphold delisted ten cryptocurrencies for Canadian users on its platform. Uphold noted that the move was designed to comply with regulatory requirements set forth by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the country’s financial markets regulator. 

At the same time, Uphold noted that it was working hard to obtain registrations in Canada and was delisting certain assets as part of a pre-registration undertaking it signed with the OSC. Fast forward to roughly a month later, Uphold appears to have cleared some of the hurdles and has now relisted nine assets through its Topper platform. 

Following the relisting, customers can trade the assets through the Uphold widget or any of Uphold’s Topper partners. The relisted assets include Shiba Inu (SHIB), Cardano (ADA), Dogecoin (DOGE), Stellar XLM), XDC Network (XDC), Hedera (HBAR), Injective (INJ), Kaspa (KAS), and Casper (CSPR). 

??? Alert for our Topper users in Canada. The following tokens have been relisted on Topper and are available via our widget or with any of our Topper partners. ??

$ADA, $CSPR, $DOGE, $HBAR, $INJ, $KAS, $SHIB, $XDC and $XLM

Head to Topper https://t.co/rkSQQYvoRF pic.twitter.com/GXbboobvB7

— Uphold (@UpholdInc) January 25, 2024

VeChain (VET) Excluded, with Shibaswap Likely in Contention for New Listing

It is noteworthy that the newly relisted assets come from Uphold’s Tier-3 cryptocurrencies list from which they were removed. However, the exchange did not relist VeChain (VET), which was among the earlier delisted cohorts. Uphold did not disclose a reason for this decision or whether it plans to relist VET anytime soon.

Meanwhile, Uphold responded to the Shiba Inu community’s call for the listing of the ecosystem token, Shibaswap (Bone). The governance token, which also doubles down as a gas token for the Shibarium network, has earned some popular listings in recent times. 

When quizzed on when it would list BONE, the Uphold handler responded with a sticker and then an emoji of a bone, coupled with a question mark. These cryptic replies may be an indication that Uphold could list BONE soon or at least have it on their radar.