Bitget
3.9/10 total
A derivatives-first custodial exchange best known for copy trading, with mandatory verification. Its notable incident is not a breach but an intervention: in April 2025 it detected what it called abnormal trading in the VOXEL/USDT perpetual, rolled back the affected accounts, compensated users from its protection fund and said it would pursue legal action over more than $20 million of alleged manipulation profits. Reversing settled trades is a real risk to understand before you trade thin perpetuals here, even when the venue does it to protect other users.
Scores
Weights are published in the method and applied identically to every entry.
For
- Base spot fee of 0.1% both sides, low in absolute terms
- Large listing count and deep perpetual futures books
- Publishes its base fee schedule on a readable support page rather than hiding it behind a login
- Compensated users out of its own protection fund after the April 2025 VOXEL incident rather than leaving losses where they fell
Against
- Mandatory identity verification before trading
- Has unilaterally rolled back settled perpetual futures trades, in the April 2025 VOXEL/USDT incident
- Newer than the rest of this group, trading only since 2018, so it has a shorter record to judge
- Operating entity and home jurisdiction are not disclosed on a page we could read
- Fully custodial, no verified onion service, no no-JavaScript path
Agent access 5/10
Documented REST and WebSocket API across spot and futures, but it requires a verified account and issued keys.
Reported separately and not counted in the total. It measures what an autonomous agent can do unattended, not whether the service is safe to use.
Fees
0.1% maker / 0.1% taker
Base-tier spot rate quoted on Bitget's own support page as a flat 0.1% before volume tiers. Paying fees in BGB takes 20% off, and VIP tiers go lower.
Specification
- Type
- Custodial exchange
- KYC policy
- KYC required
- Custody model
- custodial
- Account required
- yes
- Assets
- 800+
- Chains
- 70+
- Operating since
- 2018
- Jurisdiction
- undisclosed
- Onion service
- no
- Works without JS
- no
- Open source
- no
- Facts checked
- 2026-07-31
Links
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