We track sign-up rewards, deposit bonuses and fee rebates across 11 exchanges — so you can stack them in the right order and skip the marketing fluff.
The biggest exchange on our list rolls out a fresh sign-up reward stack roughly every quarter — typically $100-$600 in trading credit plus a 20% fee discount that stays on the account for as long as Binance runs its referral programme.
OKX runs one of the most aggressive welcome programs of the 11 we list — a stacked $10,000 mystery box plus up to 54% of every trade's fee paid back for as long as OKX keeps the referral programme open.
Bybit's deposit-bonus ladder is genuinely generous — $30K in tiered rewards for high-deposit users, with an ongoing 30% fee discount that activates the moment you sign up.
Bitget pairs a $6,200 sign-up reward bundle with a flat 50% commission share — the rebate alone tends to dwarf the welcome bonus over a year of actual trading.
12+ years operating means Gate.io has perfected its reward funnel — $6,666 in welcome credits, GT-token discounts and a 16-tier VIP fee program that scales naturally as you grow.
Once Huobi, now HTX — a decade-old exchange with a $5,000 deposit-reward ladder, generous Earn yields, and an ongoing 35% rebate for users who sign up via referral.
MEXC is the rare exchange whose 'bonus' includes 0% spot trading fees on most pairs, as published at our last read. Layer the $9,000 welcome stack on top and a first year of trading can cost close to nothing.
BingX positions itself as the social-trading exchange — its $5,125 welcome bundle includes free copy-trading allocations and a paper-trading account so you can practice with bonus credit before risking real funds.
Weex specializes in derivatives and quotes a 30,000 USDT sign-up airdrop — level with Bybit's $30,000 ceiling, though in USDT rather than dollars — backed by a 100M USDT user-protection fund.
XT.com keeps its bonus program simple — $8,888 in tiered trading rewards, 40% commission share, and a one-click signup that's friendlier than most.
BTSE is the boutique pick — fewer pairs, lighter UI, but a 10-tier VIP rebate ladder and a partner-program reward structure that suits high-leverage derivatives traders.
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Sort by best welcome reward, lowest spot fee, lowest futures fee, or top rated. Rate cards re-read at least every 45 days.
| Exchange | Welcome Bonus | Rebate | Claim |
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B
494 assets listed
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★ Up to $600 | 20% off | Claim → |
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O
408 assets listed
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★ Up to $10,000 | Up to 54% rebate | Claim → |
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B
396 assets listed
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★ Up to $30,000 | 30% off + bonus | Claim → |
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B
2171 assets listed
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★ Up to $6,200 | 50% rebate | Claim → |
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G
2066 assets listed
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★ Up to $6,666 | 40% rebate | Claim → |
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H
592 assets listed
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★ Up to $5,000 | 35% rebate | Claim → |
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M
1595 assets listed
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★ Up to $9,000 | 50% off + 0% spot | Claim → |
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B
2225 assets listed
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★ Up to $5,125 | 30% off | Claim → |
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W
200 assets listed
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★ Up to 30,000 USDT | Up to 60% rebate | Claim → |
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X
996 assets listed
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★ Up to $8,888 | 40% rebate | Claim → |
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B
295 assets listed
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★ Tiered package | 30% rebate | Claim → |
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Trading fees are read from each exchange's official rate card and re-read at least every 45 days. Bonus ceilings are quoted as the exchange publishes them, and every page links the rate card we read.
Welcome credits, deposit bonuses, task rewards, ongoing fee rebates — we list them all so you know exactly what's actually claimable.
Every link goes directly to the exchange's official sign-up flow. Where the exchange supports it the code rides in the link; where it does not (Bybit), the page tells you to type it in. No third-party tools, no API key sharing.
Exchanges share a tiny slice of their revenue with us when you sign up. The bonus you receive is unaffected — you just get the rewards.
It is tempting to look at "$30,000 welcome bonus" headlines and assume the biggest number wins. In practice, most retail traders never come close to triggering the top tier — those numbers sit behind deposits most people never make.
The real game is to stack the compounding rewards: a fee rebate on every trade for as long as the programme runs, plus the welcome credit on top, plus task-unlocked extras. Here's the order we'd recommend:
Honest arithmetic first: $50,000 of yearly spot volume at a 0.10% fee is $50 in fees, and a 50% rebate hands $25 of that back. Small — but it recurs and scales with volume, so a trader doing $500,000 a year gets $250 back every year. A one-time $200 deposit bonus is worth $200, once, and the rebate is the part of the offer that is still there in year three. OKX (up to 54%), Bitget (50%), and Weex (up to 60%) are top of the list on this metric.
Every ladder is tiered, and the rung a modest first deposit reaches is a small fraction of the headline — Bybit's $30,000 and OKX's $10K mystery boxes only start to matter at deposit sizes most readers never plan. The rung table is printed on each exchange's promotion page; read it before you deposit, and don't optimize for headline numbers you'll never hit.
The signup itself is 90 seconds and an email address, but each account is another KYC file and another set of terms to track. Register at the two or three you would actually trade on: if you do trade there, the rebate is already in place; if you never do, an unused account with a bonus attached is not worth the paperwork.
Earn / staking yields, BNB / GT / MX / OKB native-token discounts, and copy-trading commission shares are all on top of the headline bonus. A 25% additional discount from holding the platform's token is real money — easy to overlook because it doesn't show up in the marketing material.
For most readers we recommend opening accounts at Binance and OKX first — they have the deepest liquidity and the largest education hubs, so even if you never claim the welcome bonus, the platforms themselves are easy to use. Layer Bitget on top if you want to copy professional traders. Add MEXC if you trade altcoins (their 0% spot fee program is unique).