Risks of Platforms Unable to Maintain 100% Reserves | Advantages of Platforms Maintaining Over 100% Reserves |
Funds may be diverted or used for other purposes | Funds are securely held and verifiable on-chain |
Withdrawals may be delayed or fail | Users can withdraw at any time with no risk of a liquidity crunch |
Exposed to bank run risk, making it difficult to guarantee user asset security | Financially stable with no insolvency risk |
Prone to financial difficulties or bankruptcy, potentially resulting in user asset losses | Enables long-term user confidence and reliability |

Bitstamp, now trading as Bitstamp by Robinhood, scores 3.3 out of 5 on our six-dimension scorecard as of September 2026, leading on security and custody and on fiat rails and trailing on fees, asset

BingX scores 3.5 out of 5 on our six-dimension scorecard as of September 2026, leading on derivatives and copy-trading tooling and trailing on asset coverage and on the cost of following a top-tier

Binance scores 4.1 out of 5 on our six-dimension scorecard as of September 2026, leading on derivatives, competitive on security and fiat access, and trailing on trading cost and listing disclosure;

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