I got an answer from a team member who doesn't have an account in the forums so here you go

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ShapeShift has made the decision to block exchanges in Washington and New York due to the invasive laws in those states. The prohibitive regulations in WA and NY would require ShapeShift to collect, store, and track information on their customers. This violates their, and our, principles on respecting consumer privacy - and as such they have stopped exchanges in those states. Some of our customers have chosen to use VPNs to access the exchange through different IP addresses - but we recommend they read up on the laws of VPN usage in their jurisdiction before going this route. If they want to learn a bit more about these strict regulations, they can check out these two sites:

http://pleaseprotectconsumers.org/ (This also lists the government officials to contact about these regulations, so residents can express their dissatisfaction with these invasive rules)

https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2018/04/02/shapeshift-services-change-based-customers%E2%80%99-jurisdiction (This is ShapeShift's blog post on the subject) (edited)

Regarding thumb drive wallet - Exodus is not compatible with being stored on a thumb drive. We thought about adding this functionality but decided against it as we are worried people would use it instead of a hardware wallet/we don't want to see anyone plug their wallet drive into an infected computer. We definitely recommend investing in a proper hardware wallet to anyone that wants to store their assets on a thumb drive.