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BF Bitfinex VS WX WazirX
Both exchanges offer Spot, Margin. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitfinex and WazirX.
| Bitfinex | WazirX | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
| Regions | Blocked for US persons and entities since a 2021 New York Attorney General settlement. Available in most other regions, with licensed derivatives operations in El Salvador; verify local availability before signing up. | Built for Indian retail users with direct INR deposit and withdrawal rails; not available to US persons. Full operations, including INR trading, resumed in October 2025 after the hack-related restructuring, though a share of user claims remain settled only in non-tradable Recovery Tokens as of 2026. |
| Products | Spot, Margin, Peer-to-peer margin funding, Perpetual and dated futures, Securities and OTC block trades | Spot, Margin, INR-settled perpetual futures, P2P |
| Maker fee | 0% as of a December 2025 platform-wide change; verify this remains current, since fee policy can shift again | Verify current tier: WazirX's standard schedule runs 0.2% maker and 0.2% taker on spot, moving with WRX holdings and 30-day volume, or a flat monthly WazirX ZERO subscription for unlimited trades; its INR futures product runs a separate schedule around 0.02% maker |
| Taker fee | 0% as of a December 2025 platform-wide change; verify this remains current, since fee policy can shift again | Verify current tier: same pattern as the maker fee; WazirX futures taker fees run around 0.04%, and both the spot schedule and subscription pricing have changed more than once recently |
Bitfinex pros
- Eliminated maker and taker fees across spot, margin, derivatives, and OTC trading platform-wide in December 2025, with no volume tiers or token-holding requirements
- Deep order-book liquidity and a mature peer-to-peer margin funding market that lets users lend idle assets directly to traders for yield
- One of the longest continuous operating histories in the industry, dating to 2012, and still functioning after surviving its own major hack
- A meaningful share of the bitcoin stolen in 2016 is now being returned to the exchange following a landmark US Department of Justice forfeiture case
WazirX pros
- India's largest exchange by registered users, with by far the deepest INR order-book liquidity and direct rupee on and off-ramps
- Resumed full service, including INR deposits and withdrawals, after a Singapore court approved its restructuring plan with over 95% creditor support
- Wide asset selection, close to 300 tokens, plus a zero-commission P2P market
- A flat-fee subscription option, WazirX ZERO, that removes per-trade costs entirely for active traders
This table is generated from the same data behind our individual exchange reviews. See methodology for how it's put together. Fee figures marked "not yet verified" need confirming against live terms before this page is treated as launch-ready.