Companies · 30 profiled
Every company, on one page each
A profile is not a review. It is the whole record in one place: measured cost, licences, incident history and whether the people who lost money were made whole.
Centralised exchange
- Binance6.8
The largest exchange in the world by volume, and the cheapest trade we measured — with a $4.3bn guilty plea and monitorships still running behind it.
- BingX6.3
A $150m fund genuinely scoped to theft — with no address, no proof of funds and no published claims process. Its own hack compensation is unconfirmed.
- Bitfinex4.5
The exchange that socialised a hack across every customer in 2016 — including untouched accounts — and whose proof of reserves is a 2022 text file.
- Bitget6.8
Cheapest measured trade in our exchange rating, weakest custody evidence in it — and $351.6m taken from its hot wallets on 24 September 2026.
- Bitstamp6.5
A real Lloyd’s crime policy, MiCA and FCA licences, and users made whole after 2015 — against a proof-of-reserves audit it promised in 2022 and never shipped.
- Bitvavo7.1
The only venue we rate that holds client assets in a separate legal foundation — so the exchange’s own solvency cannot reach your money.
- Bybit7.1
Lost roughly $1.4–1.5bn in February 2025, the largest exchange theft on record, and paid every user in full without ever stopping withdrawals.
- Coinbase6.6
Nasdaq-listed US exchange, audited and regulated in all 50 states — and the only venue in our rating that publishes no proof of reserves at all.
- Crypto.com5.9
Publishes a Merkle proof you can genuinely check — attested by a firm that left crypto work in December 2022, a date its own page still cites.
- Gate.io5.1
A user-fund incident from July 2026 is still open and uncompensated as we publish, and its API answered in three seconds when we measured it.
- Gemini6.3
New York trust-chartered exchange with $200m of real theft insurance and no proof of reserves — and the venue whose Earn customers got 100% back in kind.
- HTX4.8
Claims the largest protection fund of any exchange we rate — 20,000 BTC — at an address it will not publish. The FCA began proceedings in February 2026.
- Kraken7.8
Centralised exchange operated by Payward, Inc. The only venue in our rating whose proof of reserves includes client liabilities and is attested by a named firm.
- KuCoin5.4
Roughly $281m taken in 2020 with no independently confirmed reimbursement, a US guilty plea, $297m in penalties — and the cheapest trade we measured.
- MEXC7.2
The only exchange we rate whose protection fund publishes an on-chain address you can go and check — and it holds no licence anywhere.
- OKX7.3
A cryptographically strong monthly proof of reserves with no auditor’s name on it, against a 2025 US guilty plea and over $504m in penalties.
- Phemex5.5
Lost $70m or more in January 2025, and its own incident timeline does not contain the word compensation. Its insurance balance page reads "No Data".
- Poloniex4.4
Announced a $100m protection fund in April 2026 whose coverage, trigger and structure it says will be disclosed later. No fiat rails at all.
- Upbit7.0
Hacked twice, six years apart, both times on 27 November — and the only exchange we rate where "users were made whole" is independently confirmed.
Lending platform
- Aave8.6
The largest pool of borrowed money in DeFi at $18.39bn, with no depositor-loss event in six years as the most obvious target in the industry.
- Compound6.7
The protocol that made on-chain lending work, still among the most conservatively engineered — and the one whose 2021 governance bug gave away $80m.
- Morpho8.3
An immutable lending primitive neither developers nor governance can alter — and most depositors use curated vaults instead, where the risk went.
Wallet
- Ledger5.8
The best chip in hardware wallets and eighth place in our rating — because the firmware is closed and the trust model, not the silicon, is the product.
- MetaMask5.0
The most-used wallet in crypto, and not open source since 2020 — a proprietary Consensys licence the folklore has not caught up with.
- Trezor7.5
The only hardware wallet with firmware and hardware both fully open and reproducible builds — and which published the attack found against its own model.
Stablecoin issuer
- Circle7.0
USDC issuer, NYSE-listed since June 2025, and since July 2026 the operator of a national trust bank that puts USDC custody under federal supervision.
- Tether5.7
Issuer of the largest stablecoin, earning about $1.04bn in a single quarter on reserve interest — and publishing attestations rather than an audit.