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As seen in the chart above, the LocalBitcoins dominance lasted up until September 2019, when it fell sharply as LocalBitcoins transitioned to KYC compliancy. Paxful took significant shares immediately following the KYC implementation, but the overall trading volume in Asia fell.
However, in the last couple of months, the volume in the region has returned to the 2019 levels, but now with Paxful as the largest P2P platform in the region.
India and China each hold 33% of the total P2P volume in Asia Pacific. The remaining third is distributed among the rest of the Asian countries, with the Philippines and Thailand both pushing weekly volumes above $800.000.