Crypto exchanges pay new users small rewards for signing up, verifying and making a first deposit or trade. The advertised totals are ceilings: most new users collect between $5 and $100, and much of it arrives as trading-fee or futures vouchers rather than crypto you can withdraw. Each offer below is checked against the exchange's own terms.
Kraken
New US customers who open a Kraken account, verify, deposit $100 and trade at least $100 in spot crypto within 30 days of approval get $25 in Bitcoin. New York and Maine residents are excluded.
CoinEx
New CoinEx users can earn up to 100 USDT in fee rebate vouchers by completing deposit and trading tasks; a 40 USDT deposit and a 50 USDT spot trade unlock 70 USDT, but the vouchers only refund trading fees and are not cash.
OKX
New OKX users who verify, deposit and complete trading tasks earn a ladder of small crypto rewards; the first step is reported at about $5, and the $400 total needs very large deposits and trading volume.
Binance
New Binance users who verify, deposit and trade can earn around $100 in rewards, but these arrive as trading-fee vouchers rather than withdrawable cash.
Crypto.com
New Crypto.com users who join with a referral code and trade earn a sign-up reward paid in CRO, realistically about $5 to $15 for a typical user, up to roughly $50.
BingX
New BingX users who sign up with a referral code are reported to get a 20% trading fee discount plus a series of small USDT bonus vouchers that unlock in stages, not a guaranteed 7,700 USDT.
Coinbase
New Coinbase users who join through a referral link and make a qualifying purchase within 90 days get a bonus that varies by country, shown as $5 in USDC. Coinbase Advanced referrals pay $5 to $50 based on trading volume in the first 14 days.
Gemini
New Gemini users get $15 in Bitcoin after trading at least $100 in crypto within 30 days of opening an approved account.
Phemex
New Phemex users with Advanced KYC can open a random Mystery Box for a first deposit of at least 100 USDT and another for a first trade of at least 100 USDT. The boxes are listed at 10 to 2,000 and 20 to 3,000 USDT and may hold cash, a BTC airdrop, a trading bonus or fee vouchers, so the low end of those ranges is the realistic expectation.
KuCoin
New KuCoin users who verify, deposit, and trade within 30 days collect a randomized welcome package of roughly 100 USDT plus trading-fee coupons and futures trial funds, far below the advertised 11,000 USDT ceiling.
BloFin
New BloFin users get up to 30 USDT in welcome gifts for four tasks done within 7 days: sign up, deposit, make a first futures trade and download the app. The rewards are futures bonus and vouchers, which cannot be withdrawn, though profits made with them can.
BTCC
BTCC advertises up to 30,000 USDT for new users, but the part a normal new user collects is about 45 USDT: 10 for registering, 20 for KYC, 10 for a first deposit of 200 USDT and 5 for a first futures trade. It is paid as trading fund vouchers and fee coupons, not cash.
HTX
HTX gives new users referred by an existing member up to five mystery boxes of small random crypto, plus futures trial credit, unlocked by logging in and hitting modest spot or futures trading volume within 14 days.
BitMart
BitMart's New User Rewards total 13 USDT: a 3 USDT futures voucher for signing up, a 5 USDT spot fee voucher for a first deposit of at least 100 USDT, and a 5 USDT futures trading bonus. None of it is paid as withdrawable cash.
Bitget
Bitget advertises a welcome pack up to $6,200, but the rewards are non-withdrawable futures vouchers, and the realistic value to a typical new user is close to nothing.
Bybit
A staged sign-up offer for new Bybit users that pays up to 100 USDT in welcome gifts across four stages (20, 20, 20 and 40 USDT) for verifying identity, depositing 100 USD and trading, all within 7 days of registration. The last stage needs 30,000 USD of trading volume, so about 60 USDT is the realistic figure.
BYDFi
New BYDFi users who complete a short set of tasks within 7 days of registering get a 100 USDT newbie gift, mostly paid as trading credit rather than cash. The 'up to 8,100 USDT' headline adds a futures bonus that needs up to $50,000 deposited and $50 million traded.
Gate.io
New users on Gate (the exchange formerly branded Gate.io) can collect futures vouchers worth 118 USDT by finishing five starter tasks within 15 days of signup: registering, verifying identity, depositing 10 USDT, making a first 10 USDT trade, and downloading the app. The advertised 10,000 USDT is a separate challenge gated behind trading volume that almost no retail user reaches.
MEXC
MEXC now advertises $10,000 in new-user rewards, but the bulk is non-withdrawable futures bonus credit. The genuinely usable part is roughly 40 USDT in vouchers.
Bitunix
New Bitunix users who verify their identity can open a mystery box worth up to 100 USDT, and earn a 2 to 6 USDT futures bonus by trading at least 2,000 USDT of futures volume on 3 to 8 days. None of it is withdrawable cash.
WEEX
WEEX advertises up to 10,000 USDT for new users, but the part a normal new user can reach is a 10 USDT fee coupon plus a 10 USDT trial fund after a 100 USDT deposit. Both are futures-only credit that you cannot withdraw.
BitMart
BitMart's referral program pays you a permanent commission of 20% (rising to 25% and 30% as you invite more people) on the trading fees of friends you refer for spot and futures trading.
CoinEx
CoinEx pays referrers a share of their invited friends' trading fees, starting at 15% for regular users (the headline 40% applies only to VIP 5 accounts) and credited in CET tokens.
Gemini
Refer a friend to Gemini and you each get $50 in crypto once the new user trades at least $100 within their first 30 days.
Bitpanda
Refer a friend to Bitpanda and you both earn €5 once they invest their first €500 in crypto or a Bitpanda Crypto Index, with rewards scaling up to a joint €200.
WhiteBIT
Entering the referral code 20CASHBACK during WhiteBIT registration applies a permanent 20% discount on all spot and futures trading fees from your first trade.
Kraken
Refer a new friend to the Kraken app and you both earn up to $20 USDG once they deposit fiat and make qualifying non-stablecoin trades within 15 days, with a cap of $200 USDG per referrer.
BTCC
You earn 25% of the trading fees a referred friend pays in their first 60 days, up to 500 USDT per friend, paid in USDT to your spot account. Fees the friend pays with bonuses do not count.
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The rewards you can withdraw are small. Gemini pays $15 in bitcoin once you trade $100 within 30 days, Coinbase pays about $5 in USDC to new users who join through a referral link, and Kraken's referral gives both people up to $20 in USDG. Crypto.com's sign-up reward is paid in its CRO token and is realistically $5 to $15.
The large numbers come from task ladders. Binance's welcome rewards are worth around $100 but arrive as trading-fee vouchers. Bybit's reaches 100 USDT only if you trade $30,000 within seven days, so about 60 USDT is realistic. KuCoin's randomized package is roughly 100 USDT plus coupons against an advertised 11,000 USDT, and OKX's first step is about $5 against a $400 total.
Check what form each reward takes. MEXC advertises $10,000 in new-user rewards, but the usable part is roughly 40 USDT in vouchers. Bitget's welcome pack, advertised at up to $6,200, is futures vouchers with little value to a typical new user. BitMart's 13 USDT, CoinEx's 70 USDT and Gate's 118 USDT starter package are all fee or futures vouchers.
A futures voucher lets you open a leveraged position with the exchange's money. You may keep a profit, but you cannot withdraw the voucher itself, so using one means taking leveraged risk to earn a small amount. For most new users that is not worth it.
Where you live decides which offers you can use. In the United States the list is short: Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken and Crypto.com. Many offshore exchanges do not serve the US, Canada or Singapore at all, and in the UK the FCA's financial promotion rules ban crypto sign-up and referral incentives, so none of these offers is available there. Each card shows whether an offer reaches your country.
Read four things in the terms: the deadline for each task (often 7 to 30 days from registration), the deposit and trading volume each step needs, the form the reward is paid in, and whether you must use a referral link or code when you register. Most offers can be claimed once per person and cannot be combined with other new-user campaigns.
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