BTCC vs Bybit — fees & conditions

BTCC — VIP 0 (no deposit requirement) from the official Fees & VIP page: futures taker 0.055% / maker 0.03%, spot taker 0.3% / maker 0.2%. Coupon-based fee coverage not applied. Max leverage: 250x per the current homepage headline ("up to 250x"); an older newsroom AMA post mentions 500x on BTC/ETH/XRP/DOGE/SOL, not recorded because the live site states 250x. Users = "11M Registered Users" on the official About page. kyc_required = false: the official KYC guide states live trading is not restricted by verification level (KYC only raises deposit/withdrawal limits). insurance_fund = the BTCC "Risk Reserve Fund" (covers negative balances). earn_staking = BTCC Earn flexible savings (not on-chain staking). No official page names an HQ city. Withdrawal fees from the official Fees page, Deposits & Withdrawals tab: BTC 0.0001 BTC on the Bitcoin network; USDT 1.5 USDT on TRON (TRC20) (ERC20/BEP20 2; cheapest Solana 1). BTCC states the main net may adjust the fee without notice. Withdrawal fees checked 2026-09-23; the exchange adjusts them with network conditions. Re-verified 2026-10-19 by weekly review in-browser: Fees & VIP table VIP 0 row Futures Taker / Maker "0.055% / 0.03%" (previously recorded 0.048% taker), Spot "0.3% / 0.2%" unchanged.

Bybit — Non-VIP tier. No MNT discount applied. Official fee pages /en/fee/spot and /en/fee/futures (the old announcement-info/fee-rate URL now redirects to /en/fee/futures). Re-verified 2026-10-12 by weekly review in-browser: Spot Crypto Pairs "Regular User" 0.1% maker / 0.1% taker (0.075% after MNT discount, not used); Futures Standard Crypto "Regular User" 0.02% maker / 0.055% taker (0.018%/0.0495% after MNT discount, not used). Founded March 2018; global HQ moved to Dubai (opened Apr 2023). listed_coins = 398 distinct spot base coins from the public v5 instruments-info endpoint (538 pairs, 2026-09-15). futures_max_leverage = 100x for BTCUSDT perpetual at the lowest risk-limit tier (USDC perpetuals go to 125x, excluded as the USDT-margined figure is the comparable one). Fiat: bank-card buy, fiat deposit to Funding Account (bank transfer), P2P, and third-party one-click buy partners. Bybit.com blocks automated fetches; values above were confirmed in-browser from the official fee rate page (2026-09-23). active_users_claimed = "80M users" per the official 80M-users celebration announcement (Jan 2026). [Withdrawal fees checked 2026-10-28 via the data feed behind the official Crypto Deposit/Withdrawal Status page (read in-browser; returns 403 to non-browser clients): BTC 0.000057 BTC on BTC; USDT 1.3 USDT on TRON (TRC20) (cheapest: BERA (USDT0) 0). The exchange adjusts them with network conditions.]