Binance Says It Spends $300 Million a Year on Compliance, With 1 in 4 Employees in the Function

Binance, the global cryptocurrency exchange, said it invests about $300 million a year in regulatory compliance and user-protection infrastructure.

In a post on its official blog on June 29, Binance described compliance as one of its biggest areas of investment.

The company said it allocates about $300 million annually to fraud prevention, asset recovery, cooperation with law enforcement and user-protection technology. Compliance spending amounts to about 0.22% of assets held, Binance said, above an estimated 0.14% average in traditional finance.

Binance also highlighted the size of its compliance workforce. About 1,500 employees handle compliance-related work, equal to roughly a quarter of the company’s total staff. Annual compliance spending per employee is about $50,000, it added.

“Trust is built through continued investment in fraud prevention, asset recovery, law enforcement cooperation and user protection,” Binance said.

The company also disclosed performance metrics. Its internal systems blocked about $10.53 billion in potential fraud, scams and suspicious trading activity from 2025 through the first quarter of this year, according to the post.

Binance also cited examples of asset recovery. It said it helped recover about $114 million tied to external hacks and security incidents in 2025, and another $60.2 million so far this year. That brought the total linked to external attacks to more than $174 million.

The amount tied to mistaken transfers was larger. Binance said it handled 1.28 million user requests in 2025 and supported the recovery of $8.2 billion in misdirected assets.

The company is also expanding investment in AI-based surveillance systems. From January through May this year, Binance spent more than $3 million on computing costs for compliance AI systems alone. The systems are used to detect suspicious transactions, identify new threats and improve the speed of investigations.

Binance also disclosed the scale of its work with law enforcement. It processed 72,632 requests from law enforcement agencies worldwide in 2025 and another 36,235 as of June this year, bringing the cumulative total to 313,653.

Binance said addresses linked to illicit activity accounted for 0.018% to 0.023% of total trading volume as of June 2025.

“On the question of whether cryptocurrency platforms can achieve the same level of security, oversight and compliance as traditional finance, we are answering with investment and results,” Binance said.