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BT Bitso VS BS Bitstamp
Both exchanges offer Spot, Staking. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitso and Bitstamp.
| Bitso | Bitstamp | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2011 |
| Regions | Full retail product available in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, with a 2025 expansion into Chile and Peru. Not available to retail customers in the US or Canada: the US-facing 'Bitso' presence is a separate business-to-business arm serving companies, not a consumer trading account. | 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, Staking, Stock and ETF trading (select markets, via Alpaca), Cross-border remittances (Bitso Shift) | Spot, Staking, Perpetual futures (EU/institutional only), OTC / institutional block trading |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently | 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: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently | 0.40% at the lowest 30-day-volume tier, stepping down to roughly 0.03% at the highest tier |
Bitso pros
- The dominant crypto on-ramp for the Mexico-US remittance corridor, reportedly moving over $6.5 billion in 2024 alone, more than a tenth of total corridor volume, using stablecoins as the settlement layer
- One of the few Latin America-focused platforms with formal registration in its home market: licensed in Mexico under the Fintech Law with CNBV and Banco de México oversight, plus a Gibraltar DLT license
- No history of a direct hack resulting in lost customer funds, and it publishes cryptographic zero-knowledge proof-of-reserves rather than a simple balance snapshot
- Backed by serious venture capital (Coatue, Jump Crypto, BOND, and others, across roughly $330 million raised) and still expanding regionally, adding Chile and Peru in 2025
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.