Crypto exchange sign-up bonuses

Exchange promotions advertise totals like up to $500 in rewards. That figure is the sum of every task in the campaign at its maximum tier, and the top tiers usually require large deposits or trading volume.

The realistic value for a new user is the sign-up and KYC portion, often a few dollars. Read the campaign as a menu of small rewards, not one big one.

Most campaigns pay per completed step: verify identity, make a first deposit above a threshold, place a first trade, try a product such as futures or staking. Each step has its own reward and its own fine print.

Do the steps that match what you would do anyway. Completing a futures task just for the reward means taking leveraged risk to earn a voucher, which is rarely a good trade.

Rewards arrive in different forms: withdrawable crypto, locked tokens that vest, trading-fee vouchers, or bonus funds usable only as futures margin. The last kind works like a forex credit bonus, with the same catch: you can trade with it, but you cannot cash it out.

Check the form of each reward before you count it as money. A $50 futures voucher and $50 of withdrawable crypto are very different prizes.

Small rewards run into withdrawal minimums: an exchange that pays you $5 but sets a $10 minimum withdrawal for that asset has effectively paid you nothing until you top it up. Vouchers and locked rewards also expire, sometimes within a week or two.

Claim rewards when you can use them, not before. An expired voucher costs the exchange nothing and earns you nothing.