- Multiple users on Reddit and X reported CoinMarketCap failing to load in India starting August 13, 2026.
- Switching to a VPN restores access immediately, and CoinGecko loads normally on the same connections, pointing to something specific to CoinMarketCap on Indian networks rather than a general outage or a single person’s setup.
- CoinMarketCap and India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) were contacted for comment and had not responded as of publication.
CoinMarketCap has stopped loading for multiple users in India over the past week. Other crypto sites, including CoinGecko, keep working on the same connections, and a VPN restores access immediately.
Multiple users reported the problem on Reddit and X starting August 13.
Cryip team tested the same connection independently. CoinMarketCap failed to load over a regular Indian broadband connection, returning the error shown below, and loaded normally the moment a VPN was switched on.
What this would fit, if confirmed
Nobody has confirmed that India’s government ordered this. If it turns out to be a deliberate block rather than a technical fault, it would not be the first time Indian authorities have acted against a platform linked to Binance, which has owned CoinMarketCap since 2020.
India’s Financial Intelligence Unit has directed MeitY, the ministry that executes website blocks, to cut off access to crypto platforms before. In December 2023, the FIU asked MeitY to block nine offshore exchanges, including Binance itself, for operating without registering as reporting entities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Binance’s own site was blocked in India the following month and stayed blocked until it registered and paid a penalty. In January 2025, the FIU fined Bybit roughly $1.06 million for the same registration failure and had its website blocked the same way. CoinMarketCap itself isn’t an exchange and doesn’t obviously fall under that registration requirement, which is exactly why an official explanation, if one comes, matters here.
China blocked CoinMarketCap outright in September 2021, along with CoinGecko and TradingView, during a wider crackdown on crypto trading. That block was confirmed independently through website-blocking detection tools.
What’s still unconfirmed
Cryip reached out to both CoinMarketCap and MeitY for comment before publishing. Neither had responded as of the time of writing. No Indian regulator, ministry, or major outlet had reported this incident as of August 18.
This story is still developing. If CoinMarketCap or MeitY responds, or the access issue resolves or spreads further, this piece will be updated.
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