Binance
Founded July 2017 by Changpeng Zhao (CZ). World's largest crypto exchange by volume (~26% spot market share). ...
Crypto Exchanges — Top 5 Global Platforms
Profiles and daily MarketRadar coverage of the world's top crypto exchanges by trading volume: Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit and OKX. Every story is fact-checked against primary sources.
Coinbase
Founded 2012 by Brian Armstrong. Largest US exchange, Nasdaq-listed (COIN). Known for regulatory compliance....
Kraken
Founded 2011 by Jesse Powell. One of the oldest exchanges, US-based, strong on security and fiat access....
Bybit
Founded 2018 by Ben Zhou. Dubai-headquartered, top-5 global spot volume, strong in derivatives....
OKX
Founded 2017 as OKEx by Star Xu. Seychelles-based, top-5 global volume, full trading product suite....
Latest exchange news
Bybit wins Dubai VARA licence for spot crypto trading
Bybit's Dubai unit secured a VARA licence for spot exchange services on October 22, adding a sixth regulatory approval to its 2026 tally — derivatives are not covered.
Kraken's Payward wins in-principle approval for Kazakhstan license
Payward received conditional approval from Kazakhstan's AFSA to run a digital-asset trading and custody business inside the AIFC zone.
Coinbase Ireland fined €3.25 million over customer-fund safeguards
The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland €3.25 million for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches — the second Irish penalty on the exchange in under a year.
Binance offers 600,000 XRP in rewards to users holding RLUSD stablecoin
Binance is putting up a 600,000 XRP pool for anyone who keeps Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in a Binance wallet for the next four weeks, and the first payout arrives on October 30.
OKX unites euro and EURC depth in a single European trading book
OKX has pulled the liquidity behind its fiat-euro and EURC pairs into one shared trading book for European customers, who can settle either in euros or in Circle's euro stablecoin at parity.
Bybit eyes US broker partnership to take on Robinhood, Ben Zhou says
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says the world's second-largest exchange will seek an established US broker partner to challenge Robinhood — and sees the UK as its next untapped market.
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