Crypto Exchanges with Lowest Fees in 2019

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If you are a trader, you know the importance of trading fees of an exchange. With so much competition in the cryptocurrency market, it is expected to have exchanges that offer low fees. Also, as a trader, you would surely love to pay as less as you can. No one likes to pay high fees, and that’s perfectly fine as it diminishes your profit if you are a regular trader.

Just like banks, cryptocurrency fees can be a big issue. However, cryptocurrency exchange offers way less fees compared to what banks charge. In this article, we will be listing the top exchanges with lowest fees in 2019. The trading fees are what we are looking for, and our criteria would be both the lowest fees and the credibility of the exchange. Before, we get started with the actual list, let’s list how you should pick a good exchange for trading.

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How to pick a crypto exchange?

Lowest fee is just one criterion you should check before you pick up the exchange. You should also look at other factors including trading volume. It directly determines exchange liquidity which means that you can trade without any issues.

Just like liquidity, you also need to ensure that the cryptocurrency offers proper security. If it is not secure or has a bad history, you might want to skip the platform completely. We recommend you to read the exchange documentation or proper reviews to learn how they implement security on their platform.

Other things that you should take care about include the following.

  • Multi-factor authentication.
  • HTTPS secure protocol usage
  • Storing crypto in the cold wallet rather than a hot wallet.

How the fees are calculated on cryptocurrency exchanges

Each cryptocurrency has their transaction fees associated with it including mining fees. However, trading fees do have a little complexity to it, and it all depends on how exchange implements them on their side. Some of the exchange uses the maker-taker system where each party has to pay trading fees differently. It depends on how crypto exchange values them. Most of the time, makers pay less as they are building the market and providing liquidity. However, the difference is not that much.

Few exchanges such as Coinbase also have fee structure based on the source of your transfer.

Top Exchanges with lowest fees in 2019

Binance

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Binance is at the top of our list. And, why not? They offer an average of 0.05% fee and are known for one of the lowest trading fees an exchange offer. On top of that, you get the best possible infrastructure, liquidity, and security from the number one exchange in the world. Binance doesn’t offer USD-pairing, but you can do crypto-to-crypto trading. Another key feature is that they have a huge number of crypto listings.

They also have one more incentive for traders. It is BNB, their platform token. As a trader, you can further decrease the trading fees by 50% which reduces the trading fees of normal 0.1% to 0.05% fee.

Binance is also a platform that regularly adds more coins to their platform. This means that you get access to best tokens and altcoins in the future.

Key Features

  • 0.1% fee without BNB, 0.05% with BNB
  • Excellent collection of crypto pairs
  • Tons of liquidity

HitBTC

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HItBTC is also known for their platform fees. They are quite popular and have been in the market since 2014. They are popular for mainly two things: low fees and liquidity. They have fees of 0.10% which is aimed towards takers. If you are a maker, then you don’t have to pay any fees as you will be earning 0.01% which is paid out of the taker fee. That’s amazing and help improve the liquidity on the platform.

Apart from the amazingly low fees, it is also easy to use. They have a wide variety of cryptos, but they do not support USD exchanges just like Binance.

Key features

  • 0.1% trading fees for taker
  • 0.01% paid to maker from taker fee
  • User-friendly exchange
  • Liquidity

Tidex

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Tidex is a new player in the market which offers competitive fees and an extensive catalog of cryptos to trade in. They charge a 0.1% from both takers and makers. The fixed fee structure is beneficial for those who trade a lot and don’t want to go into the complexity of any sort.

Tidex also doesn’t support USD which means that you need to buy crypto from other exchange and then transfer to Tidex to carry your trading.

Key features

  • 0.1% trading fees for both taker and maker
  • 70+ cryptocurrencies supported
  • Easy to use

CEX.io

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If you are looking for a crypto platform that offers crypto purchases using US dollar with decent fees, then CEX.io is your best bet. CEX.io fees structure uses the taker-maker policy. Also, the percentage of fees is calculated according to the amount of trade that you have done in the past 30 days. This means that the fees can range anywhere from 0.10% for takers to 0% for makers to 0.25% and 0.16% respectively.

All of these means that it is a good place for regular traders who also want access to US dollar. However, the collection of crypto is limited when compared to other crypto-to-crypto platforms. In short, you can use CEX.io to trade in popular crypto.

Key features

  • Flexible trading and deposit fees
  • Limited crypto listing

Bitfinex

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The last crypto platform that we are going to discuss is Bitfinex. Bitfinex, just like other exchange is popular and have an excellent fee structure. It also uses the taker-maker policy. The takers have to pay 0.20% of the trade value as fees, whereas the maker needs to pay 0.1%. This may seem high, but that is mitigated by the fact that they do not charge for any deposit or withdrawal done to their platform.

Key features

  • Good collection of crypto
  • Taker fee is considerably low

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Conclusion

This leads us to the end of the top exchange with lowest fees in 2019. So, what do you think about the list we mentioned here? Do you agree? If yes, which exchange you are going to use? Comment below and let us know.

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My day trader answer is Binance! because of its features,security,adoption,leaderships and so on.. and most of it because of its BNB tradeable fee token.
Thanks for this interesting article!

Yap true!

the BNB token was always the big plus for binance. One of the only successful ICOs in the world

@icodog i agree 100% thanks for comment!

Good info!

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I think it's kind of crazy, when i look at how much money Binance has been making in the last 2 years. And their trading fees are that low, make me think how massive the volume must be.

It's not that, if you add all the trading fees together you get around 200M in revenue. However, we all know Binance made over 1 Billion in revenue. Most of that comes from shady stuff like:

Front running their users: https://medium.com/totle/front-running-and-its-effect-on-decentralized-exchanges-e463ca4474db

Exchange Listing Fees
Pumps & Dumps

How much would binance coin have an influence on their wealth?
They basically created it for nothing and it's still worth around 1 billion dollar today. It's also one of the money makers for them.

Especially if they own a large chunk of it (i suppose, don't know the numbers) and the next bull market starts. They can then try to cash it out on the moonboys at the peak of the mania.
They probably even don't need to because exchanges make money when trading volumes are high. The market can go down, they still keep making money because the volatility is crazy high. But their token worth will drop in such case because of valuations becoming less overvalued and the correlation between cryptocurrency (market participants are dumping everything). It doesn't have much to do with the fact that people aren't trading anymore because they are.

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