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As Cryptocurrencies are becoming popular, there are a plethora of cryptocurrency exchanges, which are the main reason how the users are able to exchange or trade. The cryptocurrencies are volatile as that is an unavoidable characteristic of digital currency. Let us first understand what exactly is a cryptocurrency exchange, what does it do and then we can have a look at the top cryptocurrency exchange list for crypto trading 2019.

What Is A Cryptocurrency Exchange?
A cryptocurrency exchange allows the investors to buy, sell or trade cryptocurrencies(either from fiat to crypto or from crypto to crypto). The cryptocurrency exchanges mostly support the top 20 cryptocurrencies by coinmarketcap. People look out for the security of their crypto holdings, hence they would prefer exchanges that offer great functionality, is user-friendly and secured.

Now, let us have a look at the best cryptocurrency exchanges in 2019:
#1 Coinbase Pro:
Coinbase Pro was one of the early cryptocurrency exchange platform, founded in 2012, based in San Francisco, with a valuation of around $1 billion. Coinbase Pro helps enable withdraw and deposit funds easily.

#2 Binance:
Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange which works like an ecosystem, comprising of an exchange, wallet, Labs, Charity info, etc as stated by the CEO- Changpeng Zhao. Binance has its own coin called Binancecoin(BNB) which comes with a discount when there is crypto-to-crypto payment.

#3 BitMex:
#4 OKEx
#5 Kraken
#6 Huobi
#7 Bitfinex
#8 Bittrex
#9 Bitstamp
#10 KuCoin

Now, its time for getting rid of all the challenges, and get the collaborative and additional benefit, that any single crypto exchange can provide in a single platform. Let’s talk about the platform, which enables the users to trade seamlessly in just three clicks.


CoinSwitch is not an exchange, but a crypto exchange aggregator, which has the benefits of all the exchanges put together. Not only that, CoinSwitch lets the user get the optimum benefit by letting the user choose the best price amongst the price from the exchanges. The best part is that you will get the security at the most competitive rate and that too, without revealing your personal details. CoinSwitch has its own API, which you can use for your custom made products or services.

Read here all the details: https://coinswitch.co/news/10-best-cryptocurrency-exchanges-for-crypto-trading-in-2019

Binance still become the number one of best cryptocurrency trading, volatility and volumes should become the main factors to determine which is the best exchange site to trade because of most of traders are looking from the volume to get the best liquidity.

Recently, I discovered an exchange called Bitmax. At first, I thought it was a mistake, that perhaps it was a meant to be BitMex.
Although new, but the exchange is performing so well beyond what I could imagine.
You can check coinmarketcap site for the accurate link.

Now more and more new exchanges have sprung up and many of them offer benefits to traders but I don't believe much in them I only use binance and bitrex as the most convenient trading places

I don't believe on the ranks for crypto currency exchange because it simply based on trading volume I think but it doesn't alone make the exchange better,there are even small new exchange also have better trading experience.

I don't have much information about exchanges in general but my first choice is always Bittrex. And my second choice is Binance. And these exchanges can be in the top 10 in terms of reliability. But in terms of low transaction fees, some new exchanges are receiving less transaction fees than the exchanges on this list.

I agree and think with your writing. we need quality exchange to be able to trade well. Huobi, Bittrex and Binance are my choices. The exchange has quality and also has a good reputation so that it gets such good trust from the world public. never choose the wrong one because when we make a wrong choice, it will only make our lives worse.

We have a different choice of cryptocurrency exchanges.

My list will be binance, bittrex, poloniex, bitmex.

I don't use the other exchanges, but I have each account for those exchanges. I admitted that Binance now becomes the best of cryptocurrency exchange because they can give different thing than the other exchanges. But who knows, in this year or next year, Binance position will be change.

Hard to say which one to trust still after all that had happened to past exchanges which made all the drama like the cryptopia and the Canadian exchange which their CEO believed to have disappear and left no access to the wallet with $137M on it. I can already forget about MtGox.

People might have trusted binance so much because of receiving some airdrops so I can only hope they are not going to make some more drama being hacked and then comeback like nothing happened.

I had one of the worst experience with Bittrex. Back in 2017, Bittrex was my favorite choice and I mostly used it for trading but from July 2017 they made it necessary to do KYC in order to trade. For personal identification they provide three choices, Passport/National Identity/Driving Licence. I didn't have Passport so I firstly filled National Identity but they denied. Then I filled KYC application with Driving Licence but they denied me again. I had 0.22 BTC worth of coins on my Bittrex account, even after series of support tickets nothing happened and still to present day my money is stuck in Bittrex. Now coins only worth 0.023 BTC.  :'(


They may provide good trading experience but I would still prefer big exchanges. Back in December 2017, COLX coin multiplied 72 times. I had done translation for COLX and got around 0.02 BTC which became 1.4 BTC. I deposited my COLX on exchange named CoinMarkets and a day later exchange went offline. After 2-3 months of ambiguity CoinMarkets turned scam. From that day I swore to never use an exchange having less than $10M volume.

I love Coinbase. I have used it as a third party in paying for an online service. Although I don't use it regularly like Binance or kucoin, yet it is still the best but I hope they doing enough to retain their market share because I see Binance encroaching with speed

I like Binance, this is a top stock exchange which values its reputation. But I keep on the exchanges as much as I am willing to lose. I don't trust any exchange completely

I see other exchanges still very new in the sense that the period of time they travel has not reached a more ideal standard, maybe in the next few years they can pursue the quality and comfort of everyone, yes maybe now I only see Binance as the flagship platform of Other because they are very good at providing the services and responsibilities they provide, hopefully they can go up to the level of always being the best, we just wait until when they are safe.

My opininon Binance, Okex and Huobi is very recomended. I am prefer to Binance and use it everyday for trade.

When trading on top exchanges, all data on transactions can fall into the hands of tax service employees, there have already been cases with coinbase and bitfinex exchanges, so if a decentralized exchange working on smart contracts with good functionality appears, I am sure that it will head your list.

I know Binance is a good exchange but CoinSwitch.co is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange aggregator (https://coinswitch.co/)which supports 300+ coins and over 45,000+ pairs. It provides an easier way of trading through global exchanges like KuCoin, IDEX, Changelly, Bittrex, Cryptopia, ChangeNow and Changer without creating an account on them. If you are interested in buying cryptos, do give it a try!

I totally agree with you in this crypto industry trust is very difficult. But the exchange called  CoinSwitch is built on the most trusted exchanges in the world. They provide a seamless experience to trade and convert cryptocurrency, digital currency, altcoin, and cryptocoins by integrating with reliable and secure exchanges in the cryptocurrency market and helping their customers get the best rates while ensuring customer security.You do your own research and then trade in any exchange of your choice.

I think OP didn't say that it is in order or one is better than the other but I am sure some is. OP says its a list of the best. I think the list is great and it gives me an idea of where I should try trading. I'm planning to do trading and I have used Okex before. I'm actually shocked to see it in OPs list. It's actually a pretty good exchange.

For me it's definitely Binans Coinbase Kukoin Huobi Bittrex I think this is the main such reliable exchange,but as they say can change a lot in the future, just now there is such a thing that many projects are closed, new ones are opened, why these projects are highlighted, so that they are stronger and do not stand still,and I believe that

Coinbase isn't a good one for most of the people because not everyone is able to buy/sell cryptocurrency there. It's not worldwide and that's why I would not list it in number 1. Binance is the best for me for now.

I use mainly Binance to trade altcoins and kraken to change coins to EUR when I have to withdraw and change them to FIAT. I also use bittrex but I don't like their interface I prefer binance for that reason.

I suggest CoinSwitch for altcoins buying and trading. As I can buy 100+ crypto currency using credit card and 4000+ coins to trade. That to without creating an account [NO KYC]

I think you can call them the most popular exchanges to carrying out trading activities on but I don't think you can call all of them the best since you haven't made use of all the exchange in existence.

There are so many exchange that we don't know of but they are actually very user friendly so we can't just call this the best 10 but the most popular 10, though I can boldly call binance the best exchange that is in existence because I make use of them for my trading and the platform is very friendly and secured.

#7 Bitfinex would be great if it has no so high fund limit to begin trading. 10k USD equivalent deposit to make deals. They explain this condition that their platform for "professional" only

A new cryptocurrency exchange just launched today in Asia and it's name is Velic, I think it has the potential to do well but only time will tell.. I like your list of top exchanges, Binance is definitely one of my favourites.

There are dozens of useful exchanges that are not in that ranking today. But these exchanges have long been present and have gained more reliance, and this is the biggest reason for their popularity.

Everyone likes Binance, I haven't traded with coinbase pro even though they have launched it.

I just don't want to try it out. Bitmex too, I haven't tried it out but I'm hearing a lot of noise with that exchange.

There was a lot of new exchange sites in ASIA but it looks like they are getting so difficult to compete with any exchange site which come from western. Binance will always become the main choice consider about how good it is.

Considering my experiences with cryptocurrency exchange platforms, Binance in my opinion is the best exchange platform i have ever used.  The time taken to withdraw your funds or crypto coins is very short and faster. It has the best user interface based on my experiences with other platforms.

I think in the first list of course will be binance as the exchange has won the trust , I would still recommend cukoin poloniex and huobi

We all know this OP nothings changed, binance is still #1 and it seems like CZ is on the move to ensure that they will remain on the top of foodchain. Well of course thats what he needs to do. But see what we need or we have to open with new exchanged that can make a difference it trading world. I would say membrana would be a game changer this year, it is under development and you may check their website. How about you guys?

Binance is the best, I also agree with this, many have used it and they still believe in binance as the best exchange platform in cryptocurrency

I think some market exchanges that I think are best are: binance, hitbtc, okex and more, I have used more than 2 years and have withdrawn directly from the dollar into my bank account and everything is not a problem.

Bananas Kukoin Huobi Bitrix - these exchanges are more often mentioned in the messages. I thank the author of this communication. We all need more accurate information, and this exchange allows us not to be mistaken.

I hope this will be the best market for this year, which all markets are very interested in by people like now # 10 KuCoin, # 8 Bittrex, I myself often use KuCoin to trade coins, with the presence of this new market can be motivated for investors andtrading, in this case the hopes for the future can be better coins that develop at this time.

Binance still remains the world best cryptocurrency exchange because of those multy dimensional features such as wallet and the ability to withdrew from cryptocurrency to fiat account direct from your exchange. Nice one I was enlightened from the post .

The number of exchanges and developments that continue to occur so that Binance, Huobi, Kukoin, Bittrex have movements that are not much different, but Binance is able to hit CMC and enter the top 10. Trust and capitalization that occur is a good growth and is able to print new things.

We have many exchanges currently dealing in Altcoins and they have good reputation like Bitterx. Poloniex and Kracken even some problem but still these are best for any volume and deposit and withdrawal but still use your own mind before investing in any exchange and never keep coins in exchange for safety of your money.
I found Coinswitch is the best cryptocurrency exchange (https://coinswitch.co/)that gives the best rate for trading. It's an exchange aggregator that supports many leading exchanges. We can compare the prices of coins across different exchanges and execute the order at the best rate.

We can check the Live price of any altcoins and the real-time price chart, which helps us to keep updated about the price of cryptocurrency.

I don't know why, but Coinbase doesn't seem safe to me. I'm aware of these problems with Binance, but I've had no problems using Binance until today.

Among these exchanges, I like OKEx and Binance. I think these two are very convenient.

Coinbase isn't a good cryptocurrency exchange from my experience. Cryptocurrency exchangers ranking is based on volume, not on the base of popularity. I think Binance is the most popular exchanger. Bittrex, Hitbtc, Kucoin, Bitfinex and OKEx are few most popular exchangers after Binance.

sure yourself if you want to make an exchange, in this forum we will learn a lot and know about good exchanges and will provide benefits for us, I am happy that this forum provides a lot of experience and we get a lot of knowledge here especially for beginners it will be very useful.

in exchanges, as well as in other enterprises. For each person you need your own. Where is it important to have a quick opportunity to sell, i.e. liquidity. At another time, volatility is more important, but not speed, that is, to each his own. or even under each instrument its own.

Why binance at top 2 spot, for me binance is real dominating the world of trading in all aspect, both quality and volume per coin. Last last day, there is a celer which is sold through IEO. Investor got real easy money from that, some sold their token right away after get listed. Not just x2, x3 its pump up even x6 of their investment. How binance attract investor and big whales

        There is no perfect exchange. All exchanges have their advantages and disadvantages. Depends greatly on user preferences. Most use the known exchanges because they are very safe from the point of view of security. But there are investors who also use other types of exchange. If I were to recommend you exchanges, because you are a beginner, you need some easy interface exchanges:
- Binance
- Bittrex
- KuCoin
- Kraken (very useful);
- BitMex

everyone must be ready and consider selling their assets. when they start investing, they have made a plan for the time they are managing assets. this can all be sought with research before investing.

What you posted is not the BEST but rather a personal choice on whoever write this article.

The best is to highlight the fastest growing exchange in terms of users and volume Kucoin will be #1 in the higher tier exchanges..

While Stex is the best exchange in low tier category.

In my opinion, Exchange binance and Huobi are the best for crypto trading now. Indeed, everyone cannot be the same in expressing an opinion. Because now there are many exchanges, of course, each exchange will do the best for crypto trading.

For me the best cryptocurrency exchanges is still Binance and that's my opinion and I respect your opinion too.
I see to the Binance the security is very high compared to other exchanges but most of the listed or the exchanges that you given to us is also good and once the newbie once to eneter the trading this year they select and for sure they will be satisfy to the service.

until now personally im still happy using etherdelta exchanger, then hitbtc, because most of my token on my wallet didnt listed in your top 10 exchanger list.

Bitmex gives you a posibility of margin trading with high liquidity. I've no issues with it while use about 6 month.
But it is specific trading. So if margin trading is not for you than you do not need to trade on BitMex

Mostly Binance & Bittrex - for everyday trading.
HitBTC is also okay and fees are low.
Bitfinex - for shorts.

I prefer Binance rather than coinbase pro. Both the UI and its features support my trading needs. So far, it's always convenient to use Binance. And there is a BNB that makes lower fees.

I dont have account in coinbase. I am agree binance is good exchanger and UI very friendly. I think the biggest exchange in crypto world is binance because daily transaction volume very big and every coin listed in binance, the price will rising

KYC is important.

Binance is number 1.

I greatly appreciate the security level of Binance because no one has lost money on this exchange so far and investors can feel more secure in investing. Binance has made very good progress in 2019 and it is certain that this development will help Binance attract more customers in the future. For me Binance is life because it helped me to earn daily profits

I still always use Binance and OKEx, because it's very easy to use in trading. For others to date, I still rarely use it. It also depends on the needs and prices of the coins I want to trade. All must see the conditions and graphics.

Indeed, among the stock exchanges lately, finance is gaining momentum, + it is now also being held on its platform. Although in general, all exchange tokens are now in the positive zone.

I have never used Coinbase so I don't know if it should be number one on that list, but Binance have been my favorite exchange the last 1 year or more, I used kucoin a lot also, but have removed my last fonds from it. I have accounts on most of the other exchanges on that list but never used them.

Totally agree with you! Binance has now taken the lead among the exchanges.
Once such a stock exchange was Poloniex, but now it has completely lost its position.

I used Coinbase back in the days and I didn't even know that it has a separate Pro site for the purpose of trading, and it seems the same as the app we're using here in the Philippines which is Coins PH Pro.
In the end I would still stick in Binance. I already heard plenty of leaks that happened before at that site, and I am not sure if it is even true or not because some are denying the claims, but no matter what, I wouldn't even give my identification to the site as I am not that of a big trader anyway to earn like 1 BTC per day. I am already happy to what the site can offer to me.

https://ecex.exchange/    going to assignments. Tokens the second list. BTC first. Listing 2 eth.

The main reason behind this could be because of the fiat that has been introduced by Binance. Although, if you check through the ranking on CMC, Binance is not listed as the top. That is not even so important, because CMC seems to be biased these days and I guess they have been paid to promote some exchanges and place them at the top, whereas, by the right judgement, they should not be any way close to the first 50 or even 100.

Well BINANCE don't like, I was a victim of a hack in binance I contacted the support they replied that it is not their problem and that I have to change the passwords. A serious exchange should have told me that they investigate. Still have all email i got from binance. 

In my opinion, even till now Binance is still seen as the number 1 exchange both in trading of crypto to trading of fiat. They also have support for various fiat currencies both in deposit and withdrawal. In terms of IEO too, they are also seen as the top exchange coupled with other relevant improvements. Followed closely on that list is Okex as they are still maintaining their relevance. Others I can mention in order of top to least is Houbi, Bitmex, Bitfinex, Kucoin and Bittrex. Lastly although Coinbase is good I still don't fancy it when other exchanges are easy to access amidst various friendly features.

many people now prefer binance over other markets, I used to trade on bitrex and on poloniex too but now I have switched to binance too because the volume there is quite high

You forgot to list Bancor exchange. Yes I like Bancor for its instant liquidity to every coin. With Bancor, you don't have to wait for an order to get filled its instantly liquidated in the market.

There are a lot of cryptocurrency exchanges now and of course it is best to trade on the most top of them, and there are also a lot of such exchanges. For example, I am always trading on binance exchange and have not experienced any problems for a long time, also in my top list of exchanges include such exchanges as huobi, gate and bittrex.

From all of the above, I would single out the binance, Bitmeks, Okex, Huobi, and Kucoin. These are the main exchanges on which I conducted trading activities to one degree or another and with which I had almost no problems. In addition, on each of the above exchanges, a fairly simple verification system takes from a couple of hours to a day.

I used Okex, Binance and Kucoin, all three deserved to be on this list. All three exchanges are thriving in 2019 with the launch of many new products. I am very impressed with the strong development of Kucoin.

maybe from some of the exchanges you mentioned, binance is the best place I use. in particular, I trade BNB and with strong support from traders in binance make trading more attractive. what needs to be considered in trading on an exchange is the trading fees charged for each exchange. especially for day traders, because some exchanges also make trading costs quite high.

if you can trade on top exchanges then why some trader pick a non popular exchange ? and eventually theyl then complain that it was a scam , blah blah blah while its thier own fault at the first place on why they got on that trouble .

 i think these people love a new adventure and wanting to try risky and newer stuffs but for most of us its better to stick with what we think safe because we valued our money the most .  im more familiar with binance more than anything else and what is that gate you talk about ? gate.io ? i think i heard of it one time before

For me bancor doesn't deserve to be listed on the best cryptocurrency exchange site as it has small liquidity and there are some problems just like the code is still containing the backdoor.
I will try to put only the major exchange site as the best choices to be listed on the list. Bancor still needs more time

How much money that you store there? Don't let it, you have to try more and more to get your money back. Like you can make a thread on scam accusation board and show the proof that you have been scammed also you can tell there all. The binance user are much in this forum I think they help you at least to give you some step that should you do. Many people there including the OP has stated that binance is reputable exchange and I believe it because I'm the user too but if you are serious with this problem then you should tell it to everyone here at least for a learning though.

Looking at the statistics on the current Coinmarketcap when there are many exchanges with virtual volume of Volum, we cannot distinguish because they are too many. But really, to vote for the best exchanges, maybe only Binance, Okex, Houbi, Kucoin, Gate.io. Here are the 5 exchanges that I usually use

The best exchanges last year which also is moving forward this year are those which we already know because of their users and trading volume. While others still maintains their withdrawal fee they oe rather some reduced theirs and many more services. I don't use Coinbase for anything therefore my opinion will be based on those I have used consistently thus knowing which is better or not and they are Binance, which is followed by Okex, Kucoin and Huobi.

It wasn't much money that I lost, the problem is that an exchange that earns millions and millions of euros thanks to traders Binance's support can't just recommend changing passwords, they have to investigate reporting to the police . If they steal my money from the bank, I can go to the police to get the money back, all this is not possible withthis crypto exchanges. Very disappointed with Binance. However, I blocked my account on binance
. The fact remains that anyone who has committed the crime of stealing money from my account is still free to steal it from anyone. So be carefull...all exchange are not safe, someone more some one less but all are same. keep your money into your wallet or use a decentralized exchange

I would suggest only Coinbase Pro and Binance due to its honest behavior and not shady activities like reporting a fake volume or wash trading. Also they do a lot of work for a crypto adoption (Coinbase Earn program and so on  :) ...)

I just like how you ranked the exchanges and putting Coinbase as the number one, while Binance follows it as the number two. The both exchanges are very good but it all depends on what you really want, they have their own ways in which they are better than each other. When it comes to user friendliness I’m definitely going to give it to Coinbase and that’s because it has a simple trading platform that isn’t complicated as most.

Binance do have two settings and that’s he Basic and Advanced, but if you still compare the Basic to Coinbase you will see that Coinbase is still more user friendly. I always recommend Coinbase to newbies that are still starting up, it’s a better option and would help them grab what it’s really all about. And Coinbase also has a better mobile platform which is something that most users do look out for. When it comes to fees, Binance is more better. These are the things one should consider before they make their choice.

These 2 exchanges were ranked first according to the OP's article. These are the 2 most reputable and safest exchanges for all users. Personally, I've only used Binance since 2018 until now, and I have encountered any problems with it. The best exchange in history in this market

Am not and have never been a fan or user of Coinbase, thus I don't know much about it. But in my own way, the first exchange I can rate as the best is Binance exchange, because of no other thing than the team's persistence and determination towards ensuring they remain on top. The next on my list would be Okex, it is another good exchange while taking into account its partner exchange known as Coinall. Kucoin is yet another good exchange but I think the need more improvement so as to maintain their competitive advantage.

If you can count in "DEX's", I'm definitely voting on the Stakenet DEX, as being #1 for a couple of reasons.

1) It's a Lightning Network supported DEX, meaning anyone who wants to can trade coins (supported by Lightning) instantly on their DEX, with next to 0 fees involved.
2) It's ran by a network of masternodes, meaning it's 100% decentralized, with no way to take it down, even if the devs behind Stakenet wanted to
3) It's an integrated part of a multi currency wallet, the team has been working on for the past year. Which makes trading, storing, and send/recieving coins very convenient and easy.

Most people said Binance and Kucoin good. But every person have their favorite exchange. My favorite exchange now is OKEX, this is very simple i think.

I still like Binance as my main trading place.
They respect user privacy by not asking for data when registering or depositing assets.

I have never tried to Coinswitch platform.
Is this exchange site safe? What about their trading volume?

Actually Coinbase is a good exchange at least from the reviews and stories I have heard about it from friends, but I haven't used it though. Secondly, the first exchange I was associated with is Binance exchange and ever since then it hasn't failed rather keeps re-strategizing and applying different things so as to remain efficient and reliable. Even when hit with unfortunate event, it is still waxing strong. Other exchanges I use is, Okex of course, Houbi, Kucoin, Bitfinex and BitMax. Therefore if am to rate them starting with the best; Binance, Okex, Bitfinex, BitMax, Huobi, Kucoin and Coinbase.