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BT Bitso VS KU KuCoin
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitso and KuCoin.
| Bitso | KuCoin | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
| 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 in most regions outside the United States. A 2025 guilty plea to unlicensed money transmission and a March 2026 CFTC consent order permanently bar KuCoin's operator from allowing US-based traders onto its platform. Also restricted in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and a handful of other jurisdictions: verify local availability before signing up. |
| Products | Spot, Staking, Stock and ETF trading (select markets, via Alpaca), Cross-border remittances (Bitso Shift) | Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures, Trading bots |
| 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 | Verify current tier: KuCoin uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule, with roughly a 20% discount for paying fees in its native KCS token |
| 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 | Verify current tier: KuCoin uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule, with roughly a 20% discount for paying fees in its native KCS token |
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
KuCoin pros
- One of the widest altcoin listings among major exchanges, useful for traders looking for assets that haven't reached Binance or Coinbase yet
- A mature, free built-in trading-bot suite (grid and DCA bots) that many competitors charge for or don't offer at all
- Fully recovered from its 2020 hack, with no comparable incident since and a published monthly proof-of-reserves report
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.