Kraken
CoinWIn short: the difference
How Kraken differs from CoinW
What Kraken is: a regulated venue. On the market since 2011, jurisdiction: San Francisco, USA.
What CoinW is: an exchange that lives on leverage. On the market since 2017, jurisdiction: Singapore, its own CWT token.
What Kraken gives you
The terminal is strong on contracts, but Kraken has its own ground: The oldest venue we cover, running since 2011 under US regulation. Its distinction is real money: hundreds of dollar pairs and more euro pairs than anyone else here. There is spot, perpetual futures with hourly funding, staking and institutional services. Kraken is how we compute the live dollar rate in our stablecoin section.
Where Kraken is strong
hundreds of pairs against dollars and euro directly, age and regulation, hourly funding.
What CoinW gives you
Against a regulated venue, CoinW wins on other things: A 2017 exchange with heavy futures turnover: CoinMarketCap counts roughly 9.8 billion dollars a day on contracts against 455 million on spot. Our scanner sees 356 spot pairs against USDT. Its network reference is public with no key — a rarity: for 1,238 coins you can see which chains are supported and whether deposits and withdrawals are open.
Where CoinW is strong
a public network reference for 1,238 coins with deposit and withdrawal status, large futures turnover, 662 markets in the CoinMarketCap listing.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Age. Kraken has run since 2011, CoinW since 2017 — a gap of 6 years. It guarantees nothing on its own, but the older venue has been through more market cycles.
- Jurisdiction. Kraken sits in San Francisco, USA, CoinW in Singapore. It shapes both the checks you pass and what the venue has to disclose.
- Native token. CWT on CoinW cuts fees and opens launches; Kraken has no such lever.
- Strengths side by side. Kraken: hundreds of pairs against dollars and euro directly, age and regulation, hourly funding; CoinW: a public network reference for 1,238 coins with deposit and withdrawal status, large futures turnover, 662 markets in the CoinMarketCap listing.
- Which job. Kraken is for settling in real dollars and euro rather than stablecoins, while CoinW is as the second side in spot routes and a venue with an open chain list.
- Worth remembering. Kraken: entry-level fees run higher than neighbours — it pays off at larger volumes. CoinW: no withdrawal fees in the reference, no contract addresses, and a website behind a Cloudflare check.
Which one fits you
Who Kraken suits
Kraken — for settling in real dollars and euro rather than stablecoins.
Who CoinW suits
CoinW — as the second side in spot routes and a venue with an open chain list.
What people ask most
Questions about Kraken
Kraken: What leverage do Kraken derivatives offer? Up to 100x per the guide, but an eight-level margin schedule applies: 100x, 50x, 25x, 20x, 10x, 5x, 3.33x and 2x. Requirements rise as the position grows. Perpetuals in the Kraken app are a separate product capped at 50x.
Kraken: Why does Kraken show so few pairs in your spot arbitrage? Because we take only USDT pairs, and Kraken has fewer than fifty: nearly everything is quoted in real dollars. Mixing USD pairs with other venues’ USDT pairs would present USDT’s deviation as arbitrage.
Kraken: What does trading on Kraken actually cost? At the entry tier, 0.80% taker and 0.40% maker, from its own fee schedule. The rate falls with thirty-day volume: reaching 0.20% taker takes a quarter of a million dollars traded in a month.
Questions about CoinW
CoinW: How many pairs and coins does CoinW have? Our scanner carries 356 USDT spot pairs. CoinMarketCap lists 662 markets and 528 coins, and the network reference is open for 1,238 coins.
CoinW: Does CoinW publish withdrawal fees? No. Chains and deposit/withdrawal status are public, but the fee is only shown in the account when you create the request. That is why the fee column for CoinW stays empty in our tables.
CoinW: Why is CoinW futures turnover so large? The venue was built around contracts: 125x leverage, bots and copy trading in one interface. Its spot turnover is twenty times smaller than its contract turnover.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Kraken and CoinW
You do not have to pick one. Two accounts give you a fallback when the coin or network you need exists only on the other venue. Euro or hryvnia comes in on the regulated venue, moves as a stablecoin to the terminal, and the position opens there. Withdrawals take the same road back.
Live numbers
Live Kraken and CoinW prices side by side
Everything in the table above is recomputed together with the rest of the site — pairs, contracts, P2P, networks and the withdrawal fee. Kraken and CoinW can be compared on facts rather than promises.
Where these numbers come from
Prices are read straight from the venues and refresh automatically. There is no averaged rate here: each exchange has its own, which is why both are shown side by side.
How often they refresh
Spot and futures every few seconds; fee tiers and withdrawal networks once a day.
What the numbers say
What differs most in the Kraken and CoinW numbers
CoinW gives 8.1× the choice on spot: 356 USDT pairs against 44. Neither Kraken nor CoinW publishes the USDT withdrawal fee in its open reference, which is why the row shows a dash rather than an invented number. Both quote it in the wallet, at the moment of withdrawal.
What this comparison is built on
Pair counts, withdrawal networks, fee rates and the P2P currency list come from the exchanges own public interfaces. Where a venue withholds a field, the table shows a dash and an explanation.
How fresh this snapshot is
Snapshot from 12 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
