Exchange

Available in the USA

Coinbase — coinbase.com. Public company, the default US retail venue.

Crypto.com — crypto.com. App plus exchange.

Kraken — kraken.com. Fiat rails and a long security record.

Bitstamp — bitstamp.net. Oldest major EU exchange, now Robinhood-owned.

Gemini — gemini.com. New York trust company, thinner books than Coinbase or Kraken.

Robinhood – robinhood.com good choice if you are a beginner looking for a simple, low-cost way to trade major coins

Fidelity – fidelity.com Not much of a exchange but more of a retirement account for crypto.

Available Overseas

Binance — binance.com. Deepest books. US persons are blocked; the US entity is binance.us.

Bybit — bybit.com. Spot plus a large derivatives book.

OKX — okx.com. Unified trading account, strong futures.

Bitget — bitget.com. Copy trading and futures.

Gate — gate.io. One of the widest altcoin catalogs.

KuCoin — kucoin.com. Broad listings, mid-tier liquidity.

MEXC — mexc.com. Early listings.

HTX — htx.com. (formerly Huobi)

Upbit — upbit.com. South Korea’s largest.

BingX — bingx.com. Copy trading.

WhiteBIT — whitebit.com. European volume.

Bitfinex — bitfinex.com. Pro order books.

LBank — lbank.com. Alt listings.

BitMart — bitmart.com. Alt listings.

Bithumb — bithumb.com. South Korea.