Affiliate Disclosure

The relationship

Some links on this site to cryptocurrency exchanges are referral (affiliate) links. If you open an account through one and trade, we may receive a commission from that exchange. This costs you nothing additional.

That is a conflict of interest. Naming it plainly is the first safeguard; the rest are below.

Where disclosure appears

• Immediately adjacent to every referral link, not only in the footer
• On every exchange review page
• On the comparison and finder pages
• On this page, in full

The safeguards

Commission is not a scoring input. The six editorial criteria are fee transparency, security practices, regulatory disclosure, education quality, learner usability and support transparency. The scoring function takes only these as arguments. Adding a commercial term to it would require a visible change to the code, not a change of mind.

Reviews are published regardless of commercial relationship. A venue with no referral programme, or one we are not part of, is still reviewed and still scored.

No call to action renders for an unverified record. If an exchange record is not marked verified, or has no confirmed referral URL, no referral link is displayed at all — not disabled, not a placeholder. One gate, one function, every call to action.

Every review carries its date and sources. Each fact on a review page was checked against the exchange's own pages or a regulator's register on the date shown, and the sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

No link cloaking or redirect chains. Referral links point directly at the destination and carry a sponsored, nofollow, noopener and noreferrer relationship. There is no redirector on this site, which also means there is no open-redirect surface.

We do not review what we have not examined. A record without a verification date and source URLs is not published.

What a referral link is not

It is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or a statement that the venue is suitable for you. Suitability depends on your jurisdiction, your circumstances and your objectives, none of which we know.

Who we have a referral relationship with

As of 23 September 2026:

The same scoring applies to all four. Kraken, the one we earn nothing from, shares the highest score.

Where links are not shown

United Kingdom. We show no exchange links to readers in the UK (and the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey). UK law restricts who may promote cryptoassets to UK consumers, and none of these referral programmes is approved for that. The reviews stay open to read.

Countries an exchange does not serve. Each exchange's own terms list countries it will not accept customers from — for example, Binance, OKX and Bybit all exclude the United States and Canada. A reader in one of those countries sees no link to that exchange.

When we cannot tell. Your country is read from the connection by our hosting provider, Cloudflare, only to decide whether to show a link; it is not stored or used for anything else. If it cannot be determined — or if you are reading through a translation service — no link is shown.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a disclosure is missing from a page, tell us and we will fix it.