Regula has found that 44% of surveyed crypto firms confirmed AI-assisted or automated activity among users undergoing identity checks.

Regula, an identity verification provider, has published its Crypto KYC Snapshot Report, based on findings from its 2026 global study ‘Identity Verification in the Age of AI Agents’. The report shows that 44% of surveyed crypto firms reported confirmed AI-assisted or automated activity among users undergoing identity verification, compared with 31% in other surveyed sectors, a gap of 13 percentage points. Such activity may include an AI assistant or agent acting on a customer’s behalf, a script interacting with a verification flow, or other automated behaviour identified through investigation or…