Compare the best crypto exchanges in Colombia for 2026: regulation, COP deposits and withdrawals, fees, coins, futures and each exchange's main catch.
Accepts clients from Colombia Accepts clients from Colombia Accepts clients from Colombia Accepts clients from Colombia Accepts clients from ColombiaAvailable in the EU as Bybit EU Accepts clients from Colombia Accepts clients from ColombiaAvailable in the EU as OKX EU Accepts clients from Colombia| Exchange | Spot assetscrypto | Futures assets | Spot feesmaker/taker | Futures feesmaker/taker | Max leverage | Colombia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BloFinVisit | 243 | 438 | 0.1% / 0.1% | 0.02% / 0.05% | 150× | Yes |
| 2. BitgetVisit | 507 | 478 | 0.1% / 0.1% | 0.02% / 0.06% | 125× | Yes |
| 3. CoinbaseVisit | 402 | 131 | 0.4% / 0.6% | 0.05% / 0.05% | 10× | Yes |
| 4. BinanceVisit | 507 | 525 | 0.1% / 0.1% | 0.02% / 0.05% | 150× | Yes |
| 5. BybitVisit | 380 | 577 | 0.1% / 0.1% | 0.02% / 0.055% | 100× | Yes |
| 6. KuCoinVisit | 814 | 677 | 0.1% / 0.1% | 0.02% / 0.06% | 125× | Yes |
| 7. OKXVisit | 298 | 485 | 0.2% / 0.35% | 0.02% / 0.05% | 125× | Yes |
| 8. MEXCVisit | 1,320 | 614 | 0% / 0.05% | 0% / 0.02% | 200× | Yes |
| Exchange | Score | Founded | Headquarters | Founder | CEO | KYC | Colombia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BloFinVisit | 8.8 | 2019 | Cayman Islands | Matt Hu | Matt Hu | No KYC | Yes |
| 2. BitgetVisit | 7.8 | 2018 | Singapore | Sandra Lou | Gracy Chen | Required | Yes |
| 3. CoinbaseVisit | 7.7 | 2012 | Remote | Brian Armstrong | Brian Armstrong | Required | Yes |
| 4. BinanceVisit | 8.9 | 2017 | Cayman Islands | Changpeng Zhao | Richard Teng | Required | Yes |
| 5. BybitVisit | 9 | 2018 | Dubai | Ben Zhou | Ben Zhou | Required | Yes |
| 6. KuCoinVisit | 7.1 | 2017 | Seychelles | Michael Gan | BC Wong | Required | Yes |
| 7. OKXVisit | 7.8 | 2017 | Seychelles | Star Xu | Star Xu | Required | Yes |
| 8. MEXCVisit | 4.2 | 2018 | Singapore | John Chen | John Chen | Required | Yes |
The Colombia column is checked live against each exchange's restricted-country list.
BloFin is our top pick for traders in Colombia who want low futures fees, plenty of coins and the option to start trading without ID verification. Beyond that, what matters here is how you get pesos in and out, what trading really costs and how far you trust the company, because buying crypto isn’t banned in Colombia but exchanges aren’t supervised by the SFC and no public guarantee protects your balance.
PSE and direct peso bank transfers aren’t deposit options at any exchange here. Most people fund with a card or buy from other users on a P2P marketplace, which Binance, Bybit, KuCoin, OKX, Bitget and MEXC all run. Cashing out is where they differ most: some pay out by bank transfer or P2P, while BloFin has no fiat withdrawals at all.
BloFin is the one exchange here that lets you trade without verifying your identity: an unverified account can withdraw up to $20,000 a day, and ID checks only raise that limit. For someone in Colombia that means you can open an account and trade the same day, without waiting on a document review. It isn't supervised by the SFC, but it publishes proof of reserves, so you can check that customer deposits are backed.
Futures are its strongest side, at 0.02% for limit orders and 0.05% for market orders, on 438 coins with up to 150x leverage. Spot covers 243 coins at 0.1% for makers and takers, and copy trading, trading bots and a demo account come included.
Deposits work by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or crypto, but fiat withdrawals aren't supported, so turning profits into pesos means sending crypto to another platform first. BloFin launched in 2019, is based in the Cayman Islands and was co-founded by Matt Hu, who is also its CEO. It is a relatively young exchange with only moderately deep order books, so large orders can move the price against you more than on bigger rivals.
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Copy trading is the reason many people pick Bitget, which runs the world's largest copy trading platform. A beginner in Colombia can mirror experienced traders automatically instead of building every trade from scratch. Its P2P marketplace, where you buy crypto from other users and pay them directly, gives you a way in without PSE.
The range is broad: 507 spot coins charged at 0.1% whether you place a limit or a market order, plus futures on 478 coins where makers pay 0.02%, takers pay 0.06% and leverage goes as high as 125x. Staking, savings, crypto loans and trading bots sit alongside, and paying fees in its BGB token cuts costs further.
ID verification is required, and you can deposit by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfer or crypto. Bitget was founded in 2018, is based in Singapore and is run by CEO Gracy Chen, with Sandra Lou as a co-founder. Bitget reported unauthorized transfers of about $351.6 million from some hot and warm wallets and paused withdrawals during the investigation, so money you deposit may stay locked until they reopen, although it says cold wallets and user balances are safe and its User Protection Fund covers the loss.
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If you have never bought crypto before, Coinbase is the easiest place to start, with an app built so simply that a first purchase takes a few taps. It is one of the few publicly listed crypto exchanges and publishes proof of reserves, which gives you more public information to judge it by. Like the rest of this ranking, though, it has no SFC supervision in Colombia.
That ease comes at a price: spot trades start at 0.4% for makers and 0.6% for takers, the highest spot fees here, though volume discounts lower them. Futures are cheap, with one flat rate of 0.05% on every order across 131 coins, but leverage stops at 10x, and spot covers 402 coins plus staking and prediction markets.
You must verify your ID, deposits go by card, PayPal or crypto, and withdrawals go by crypto or bank transfer. Coinbase dates from 2012, operates as a remote company rather than from a set headquarters, and is led by co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong. In 2021 more than 6,000 Coinbase customers had their accounts compromised, so switch on two-factor authentication and the withdrawal address whitelist before you hold anything there.
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Liquidity is what you get at Binance: its order books are the deepest in crypto, so trades fill close to the price you see, even for larger amounts. For someone in Colombia it also offers P2P deposits, where you buy from other users and pay them directly, plus bank transfer and card deposits. You can cash out in crypto or send money straight to your bank, which gives you a route back to your own account.
Spot covers 507 coins at 0.1% for makers and takers, and futures run on 525 coins, with makers paying 0.02%, takers paying 0.05% and leverage reaching 150x. Options on 8 coins, tokenized stocks, copy trading, bots, staking and loans all sit in one account, though the busy interface can overwhelm beginners.
ID verification is mandatory, and paying fees in BNB with the deduction setting switched on lowers them further. Binance has been around since 2017, has its base in the Cayman Islands and has CEO Richard Teng at the top, with Changpeng Zhao among its co-founders. A hack in October 2022 led to outflows of BNB coins worth over $500 million, which shows even the largest exchange can be breached, so don't leave more there than you are actively trading.
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Moving money is easier on Bybit than on most rivals, thanks to one of the world's largest P2P marketplaces, with over 100 currencies, 300 payment methods and no P2P fees. That gives someone in Colombia a realistic way to fund an account without PSE, and bank transfer withdrawals give you a route back out.
Derivatives are the core: futures on 577 coins charge 0.02% to makers and 0.055% to takers, leverage tops out at 100x, and options plus contracts on stocks, forex and commodities round it out. Spot trading spans 380 coins and costs 0.1% whichever side of the order book you're on, with copy trading, bots and a demo account for practice.
You need to verify your ID with a document and a selfie before trading. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dubai, Bybit has co-founder Ben Zhou as its CEO. Hackers took over $1.5 billion from Bybit in February 2025, and although it recovered all users' funds within 72 hours, a breach that size is a good reason not to store long-term savings on any exchange.
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Coin choice is KuCoin's strength: with 814 coins on spot, only MEXC lists more here, which matters if you want small altcoins the bigger names don't carry. For someone in Colombia its P2P marketplace works both ways, so you can buy and sell crypto with other users and settle with them directly.
Futures cover 677 coins, with a maker fee of 0.02%, a taker fee of 0.06% and a leverage cap of 125x, and margin trading and staking are available too. Popular coins cost 0.1% for makers and takers, but less-traded coins fall into higher fee classes, so check the rate before buying small caps.
ID verification with a face check is required before you can deposit or trade, and card funding runs through third-party providers with varying fees, so budget for extra costs getting money in. KuCoin launched in 2017 and is based in Seychelles; Michael Gan co-founded it and BC Wong is CEO. In 2020 a leak of its hot wallets' private keys led to large withdrawals, so use its withdrawal whitelist and avoid parking savings there.
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Cashing out is where OKX shines, with more withdrawal routes than any exchange here: bank transfer, card, P2P, PayPal and even crypto ATMs, alongside crypto. For someone in Colombia turning crypto back into money, that means fewer detours through other platforms, and P2P also works for deposits.
Futures are cheap at 0.02% maker and 0.05% taker on 485 coins with up to 125x leverage, and options run on 4 coins. Spot is pricier, with limit orders at 0.2% and market orders at 0.35% across 298 coins, so OKX suits derivatives traders more than people who buy and hold.
ID verification is mandatory, holding OKB brings fee discounts, and copy trading and a demo account are included. OKX got its start in 2017; it is headquartered in Seychelles, where co-founder Star Xu holds the CEO role. Its central exchange has never been directly hacked, but its DEX lost $2.7 million in a 2023 exploit, so the on-chain side carries more risk than your exchange account.
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Nobody here charges less than MEXC: a spot limit order costs 0% and a market order 0.05%, while futures run 0% on the maker side and 0.02% on the taker side. It also lists the most coins, 1,320 on spot and futures on 614, often before other exchanges, which suits traders chasing new tokens.
Leverage goes to 200x, and copy trading, bots, staking, tokenized stocks and a demo account come included. From Colombia you can fund by card, bank transfer or its P2P marketplace and take money out as crypto or a bank payment, but much of the coin list trades thinly, so check the order book before buying anything small.
ID verification is required before any deposit, trade or withdrawal. MEXC opened in 2018, operates out of Singapore, and co-founder John Chen serves as CEO. The serious catch is its reputation, with many reported cases of MEXC withholding customer funds, so you could struggle to get your money out and shouldn't keep more there than you can afford to have stuck.
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Our editorial team selected, tested and ranked the best crypto exchanges for traders in Colombia. We picked exchanges that accept users in Colombia and ordered them on the whole package rather than a single number. The order is our editors’ judgment of that package, while the CWR Score on each card rates the exchange on its own, so an exchange placed lower can still have a higher score.
Yes. Buying, holding and trading crypto is not banned in Colombia, but crypto is not money there: the Colombian peso is the only legal tender, and crypto is not recognised as a currency or as foreign exchange. The Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC) has warned that crypto operations carry no public or private guarantee and that each person must understand and accept the risks.
Crypto exchanges in Colombia are not licensed or supervised by the SFC, which said in 2017 that it had not authorised any supervised entity to hold, invest in, broker or trade crypto. Crypto service providers must, however, send suspicious-transaction, customer and transaction reports to the UIAF, Colombia’s financial intelligence unit, under an anti-money-laundering rule from 2021. For you, that means an exchange’s safety depends on the company itself, not on financial supervision or a public guarantee.
In Colombia, crypto counts as an intangible asset for tax purposes, and you are taxed when you dispose of it, not when its price rises. If you sell or swap crypto you held for two years or more, the profit is an occasional gain (ganancia ocasional) taxed at a flat 15%; if you held it for less than two years, the profit is ordinary income taxed at the regular income tax rates for individuals. Swapping one crypto for another counts as a disposal on centralised and decentralised platforms alike, but moving coins between your own wallets does not.
Rewards from staking and mining are taxable income when you receive them, as payment in kind. Residents must list the crypto they own on 31 December in the assets (patrimonio) section of their annual income tax return, even though the form has no separate crypto line. A loss on a sale can be carried forward against later income under the general rules for losses.
This is a general overview, not tax advice. Tax rules change and depend on your situation, so check with the DIAN or a tax adviser before you file.
Official sources, checked September 2026: DIAN: unified concept on crypto assets (Concepto 18075 of 2023); DIAN: Estatuto Tributario, articles 300 and 314.
Buying Bitcoin or Ethereum in Colombia takes only a few steps once you have chosen where to trade.
BloFin is the strongest all-round choice for traders in Colombia who want cheap futures, a big coin list and the option to skip ID checks, as long as you accept that cashing out to pesos goes through another platform. If moving money in and out matters most, Bybit’s P2P marketplace and OKX’s many withdrawal routes are easier, Binance gives you the deepest markets, and Coinbase is the simplest start for a first purchase. Crypto isn’t banned in Colombia, but no exchange is supervised by the SFC and nothing guarantees your balance, so keep only what you are trading on any exchange.
Yes. Buying, holding and trading crypto isn't banned in Colombia, but crypto isn't money there: the Colombian peso is the only legal tender. Exchanges aren't licensed or supervised by the SFC, and crypto carries no public or private guarantee, so the safety of your funds depends on the exchange you choose.
None of the exchanges in this ranking offer PSE. Most people in Colombia fund their account with a card or buy crypto from other users on a P2P marketplace. Binance, KuCoin and OKX offer P2P deposits, and Bybit runs a large P2P marketplace with no P2P fees.
MEXC charges the least: 0% for spot makers, 0.05% for spot takers, and 0.01% and 0.04% on futures. It also has many reported cases of withholding customer funds, so weigh the savings against the risk of trouble withdrawing.
Only on BloFin. An unverified BloFin account can withdraw up to $20,000 a day, and verifying raises that limit. Every other exchange here requires ID verification before you trade.
OKX has the most withdrawal routes, including bank transfer and P2P. Binance and Bybit pay out by bank transfer, and KuCoin supports P2P withdrawals. BloFin doesn't support fiat withdrawals, so you would move crypto to another platform first.
Crypto gains can be taxable in Colombia. See "How is crypto taxed in Colombia?" above for the details, and keep a record of every trade you make.
In the EU, Bybit serves customers through a separate platform, Bybit EU, which is licensed under MiCA.
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In the EU, OKX serves customers through OKX EU, which is run by a separate company licensed under MiCA and offers different products.
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