Bithumb
South Korea's second-largest crypto exchange by volume, offering KRW and BTC spot markets.
Volume (24h)$106.41MUSDT markets tracked live
Coins482with USDT pairs
Spot / Perp markets495 / 0tracked by ArbiLayer
Base fees0.25% / 0.25%maker / taker, spot
About Bithumb
South Korea's second-largest crypto exchange by volume, offering KRW and BTC spot markets.
Trading fees
Official fee schedule ↗SpotBase tier
Maker0.25%
Taker0.25%
- Fee coupons reduce KRW-market fees to as low as 0.04%
- BTC market: zero trading fees (per third-party review)
- Periodic promotional events lower effective rates further
Withdrawals: network-dependent, per asset
New users
KRW trading vouchers and referral rewards
- Daily trading voucher up to ₩50,000
- Friend invitation: ₩30,000 to inviter and ₩50,000 to invitee
- Seasonal trading competitions
Claim on Bithumb ↗Terms and regional eligibility vary. Check the offer page before signing up.
Fee coupon tiers
VIP program ↗Tier is based on prepaid fee coupons by trader profile.
TierRequirementSpot makerSpot taker
BeginnerNo coupon0.25%0.25%
Retail TraderCoupon (0.08%–0.20%)——
Day TraderCoupon (0.05%–0.065%)——
High-Frequency TraderCoupon (0.04%–0.045%)——
Proof of reserves
No PoRCompany
Leadership
LJLee Jae-wonCEO
Products
Spot (KRW and BTC markets)StakingLendingAuto-trading botsOTCAPI
Licences & registrations
South Korea: registered virtual asset service provider with the FIUKISA ISMS certificationReal-name KRW banking partner: KB Kookmin Bank (from March 2025)
Not available in
IranNorth KoreaYemenMyanmarSyria
Incidents & regulatory history
- 2026February: an operational error credited about 620,000 BTC (over $40B) to 695 accounts; 99.7% recovered within 35 minutes.
- 2026March: FIU fined Bithumb 36.8B won and ordered a six-month suspension of new registrations over AML violations; a court later lifted the suspension.
- 2020Seoul police raid over suspected investment fraud.
- 2019Nearly $20M in EOS and XRP stolen in a hack blamed on insiders.
- 2018Raided over suspected tax evasion (~$28M back taxes paid); about $32M in crypto stolen in a June hack.
- 2017Customer data stolen from an employee's PC; affected users compensated.
Volume, last 7 days
7 days agonow
Top markets
ArbiLayer does not track live markets on this exchange yet.