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BG Bitget VS BS Bitstamp
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitget and Bitstamp.
| Bitget | Bitstamp | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2011 |
| Regions | Widely available internationally; not available to US, Canadian, Singaporean, Hong Kong, South Korean, or Netherlands residents, among other restricted jurisdictions: verify local availability before signing up. | Available across the US, UK, and EU/EEA (MiCA-licensed since May 2025), plus a range of other regions; unavailable in a small number of jurisdictions with sanctions or licensing restrictions. Perpetual futures are limited to eligible EU and institutional users and not offered to US, Canadian, or Japanese customers. |
| Products | Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures, Copy trading, Launchpool / staking | Spot, Staking, Perpetual futures (EU/institutional only), OTC / institutional block trading |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | 0.30% at the lowest 30-day-volume tier, stepping down to 0.00% at the highest tier (above roughly $1 billion in monthly volume) |
| Taker fee | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | 0.40% at the lowest 30-day-volume tier, stepping down to roughly 0.03% at the highest tier |
Bitget pros
- Copy trading is a genuinely core, well-built product rather than a bolted-on feature, with both spot and futures copy modes
- Self-funded protection fund (reported at over $300 million) with public, trackable wallet addresses
- Monthly Merkle-tree proof-of-reserves reports with an independent, open-source verification tool
- Broad product suite (spot, margin, futures, copy trading, launchpad, a separate Web3 wallet) inside one ecosystem
Bitstamp pros
- The longest continuously operating major exchange, trading since 2011 without ever losing customer funds to a hack, including through a 2015 breach that cold-storage reserves absorbed
- Deep, long-standing regulatory footprint: a Luxembourg payment institution license since 2016, UK FCA cryptoasset registration, and a MiCA CASP license (May 2025) covering the full EEA
- Now backed by Robinhood's balance sheet and infrastructure following a $200 million acquisition that closed in June 2025, without (so far) folding Bitstamp into Robinhood's own product
- Nasdaq-built matching engine and a dedicated OTC desk, giving it institutional-grade infrastructure most retail-first exchanges don't build themselves
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.