Anchorage Digital: Federally chartered US crypto bank offering institutional custody, trading, staking and stablecoin issuance
Backpack Exchange: Solana-native exchange and wallet offering crypto, tokenized US stocks and prediction markets under Dubai, Cyprus and Latvia licenses.
Binance: Crypto exchange offering spot, margin, futures and P2P trading across 500-plus digital assets to a global retail and institutional base.
BingX: Crypto exchange and copy-trading pioneer offering spot, derivatives, and since 2026 perpetual futures on stocks, forex, and commodities.
Bitfinex: Cryptocurrency exchange offering spot, margin, derivatives and OTC trading, under common ownership with the Tether stablecoin issuer.
bitFlyer: Tokyo-based crypto exchange licensed in Japan, the US, and the EU; runs bitFlyer Lightning, a professional order-book trading venue.
Bithumb: Seoul-based crypto exchange, South Korea's second-largest by trading volume, offering KRW spot trading in over 440 digital assets.
BitMart: Cayman Islands based crypto exchange with 1,700+ trading pairs, known for fast listing of small cap and newly launched tokens.
BitMEX: Crypto derivatives exchange that created the XBTUSD perpetual swap, offering up to 250x leverage on crypto and, more recently, tokenized TradFi perpetuals.
Bitpanda: Vienna-based retail investing app for crypto, stocks, ETFs and metals, plus a B2B arm licensing its trading infrastructure to banks.
Bitso: Mexico City crypto exchange and financial app serving 10 million-plus Latin American users, built on MXN trading and cross-border payments.
Bitstamp: Luxembourg licensed crypto exchange, now owned by Robinhood, offering retail trading plus institutional lending, staking and API execution.
Bullish: Institutional crypto exchange with a hybrid AMM/CLOB order book, listed on NYSE as BLSH since August 2025.
CEX.IO: London-headquartered crypto exchange launched in 2013 alongside the GHash.io mining pool, now running spot trading, staking and an institutional Prime desk.
Coinbase: Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange offering retail trading, institutional prime brokerage, and NYDFS-regulated custody.
Coincheck: Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange, majority owned by Monex Group, whose holding company listed on Nasdaq as CNCK in December 2024.
CoinEx: Hong Kong-founded crypto exchange for spot, margin, futures and AMM trading, publishing monthly proof-of-reserves audits since 2022.
Crypto.com: Singapore-based crypto exchange and app serving about 150 million users in roughly 90 countries, plus a Visa card and NFT marketplace.
Deribit: Crypto derivatives exchange that held roughly 87% of global Bitcoin options open interest before being acquired by Coinbase in 2025.
dYdX: Non-custodial, order-book based exchange for crypto perpetual futures, running on its own Cosmos SDK blockchain, dYdX Chain v4.
Gate.io: Cayman Islands based exchange listing about 4,600 cryptocurrencies, with spot, margin and futures trading plus its own GateChain blockchain.
Gemini: NYDFS-chartered US crypto exchange and custodian founded by the Winklevoss twins, now expanding into prediction markets and stock trading.
GMX: Decentralized perpetuals exchange trading via oracle pricing and isolated GM liquidity pools across Arbitrum, Avalanche and MegaETH.
HashKey Exchange: SFC-licensed Hong Kong crypto exchange, Asia's largest by 2025 trading volume, serving retail and institutional clients.
HTX: Crypto exchange founded as Huobi in 2013 and rebranded HTX in 2023, offering spot, derivatives, staking and lending to global retail users.
Hyperliquid: A fully on-chain perpetual futures exchange running on its own layer-1 blockchain, with no venture funding and about a dozen full-time staff.
Independent Reserve: Sydney-founded crypto exchange and OTC desk, acquired by UK broker IG Group in a deal completed January 2026.
Jupiter: Solana's largest DEX aggregator, routing swaps across the network's liquidity while adding perps, lending and a stablecoin since 2021.
Kraken: San Francisco crypto exchange run by Payward Inc, offering spot, margin and futures trading, staking, and tokenized US equities.
KuCoin: Seychelles-registered crypto exchange trading 1,000+ tokens via spot, margin and derivatives markets for a global retail user base.
LMAX Digital: Institutional spot crypto exchange, part of LMAX Group, using a central limit order book and regulated in Gibraltar as a DLT provider.
Luno: London-headquartered crypto exchange, owned by Digital Currency Group, focused on retail adoption in Africa and Southeast Asia.
MEXC: Seychelles-based exchange offering 3,000-plus altcoins and zero-fee spot trading to 40 million users across 170-plus countries.
OKCoin: US-licensed exchange founded in Beijing in 2013 that halted trading in May 2025 as its customers migrate to OKX
OSL: Hong Kong-listed (HKEX: 863) crypto exchange, brokerage and custodian expanding into stablecoin payments via USDGO and Banxa.
Paxos: NYDFS-chartered trust company issuing PYUSD, USDP and USDG stablecoins and providing crypto custody and brokerage to enterprises.
Phemex: Singapore crypto exchange founded by ex-Morgan Stanley engineers in 2019, known for a paid tier that removes spot trading fees.
Pionex: Singapore crypto exchange offering 16 plus free built-in trading bots (grid, DCA, futures) on liquidity pooled from Binance and Huobi.
Poloniex: Crypto exchange founded in 2014, now controlled by TRON founder Justin Sun, offering spot, margin and up to 100x leveraged futures trading.
River Financial: US bitcoin-only broker offering buying, selling, full-reserve custody, managed mining and bitcoin-native banking, regulated under NMLS.
Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin-only platform for recurring purchases, IRA accounts, self-custody vaults and institutional lending, no other coins listed.
Uniswap: Decentralized exchange protocol on Ethereum using automated market maker liquidity pools instead of a central order book.
Upbit: South Korea's dominant crypto exchange, run by Dunamu, clearing roughly two thirds of the country's won-denominated spot trading volume.
WhiteBIT: Centralised crypto exchange founded in Ukraine in 2018, offering spot, margin and futures trading plus its own Whitechain blockchain.
Zodia Markets: Institutional crypto brokerage and exchange backed by SC Ventures and OSL Group, regulated across the UK, Ireland, Jersey and Abu Dhabi.
