UK registered cryptocurrency exchanges

Kraken is one of the longest-running platforms in the industry and has maintained its legacy by constantly improving its services. It is the 2023 Finder Award winner for Best Exchange Overall thanks to its broad range of features and quality service.

You can start building a cryptocurrency portfolio today from 200+ supported coins. Kraken is popular with over 9 million users and exceeds a daily trading volume of just over US$650 million, which makes it one of the world's largest exchanges. But for overall features and trading tools, Kraken blows everyone out of the water. It is clearly made for traders but it doesn't leave novices behind either.

Kraken has a broad range of advanced trading features. It prides itself on offering low spreads and providing deep liquidity across markets so you don't need to worry as much about slippage. This helped Kraken secure another Finder Award for Advanced Trading.

While new traders may feel daunted by the exchange at first, the large variety of guides can help anyone become knowledgeable about cryptocurrency, its underlying technology and the different forms of trading. Meanwhile, more experienced traders will appreciate Kraken's high-quality system and easy-to-use user interface (UI). They will be pleasantly surprised by how straightforward it is to trade, move crypto and manage assets.

CoinJar is hard to beat when it comes to value, which is why it's our pick for best-value exchange. There are no deposit fees, no withdrawal fees and a very low spread - a fee often hidden by crypto exchanges.

UK users can make GBP deposits and withdrawals without incurring any sort of charge. Trading on CoinJar comes with a small percentage fee, which is slightly higher if you purchase crypto using its Instant Buy option.

When it comes to trading on the CoinJar Exchange, both its taker and maker fees are kept comparatively low. Plus, the more you trade, the lower the fee. CoinJar also offers value to customers in other ways. For example, its crypto debit card allows users to spend their digital assets as well as earn CoinJar Rewards.

eToro uses its experience as an investing platform to make things easy for crypto newbies. This is why it won both the 2023 Finder Award for Beginners and the Finder Award for Instant Purchases. Its beginner-friendly interface makes buying and selling crypto quick and simple for someone just starting out.

eToro pioneered the concept of copy trading back in 2010. This feature allows you to view and mirror trades made by experienced investors. Getting started is easy – simply choose a trader you want to copy and then set your account to follow their trading moves.

With a minimum of US$200, you can automatically repeat trades from some of eToro's top-performing crypto traders. There is no additional fee charged for this service.

Meanwhile, if you want to try before you buy, you can practice with $100,000 using eToro's virtual portfolio. This allows you to learn about the market and hone your trading skills before doing it for real.

Crypto.com has one of the largest lists of cryptocurrencies available to Brits and is the 2023 Finder Award winner for Altcoins. It has over 250 cryptocurrencies on offer and is constantly looking to expand its offering with new coins.

If you're looking for something a little more obscure, Crypto.com will have you covered. It has an extensive range of novel coins and tokens and keeps you updated on the coins launching in the market. Head to its Coin Launches page and you'll be able to find out about the latest offerings.

Crypto.com is more than just the variety of coins it has on offer. As the 2023 Finder Award winner for Extra Features, it offers useful services to its 80 million customers worldwide. For example, you can get a crypto card, explore its NFT marketplace or set up your own DeFi wallet.

Revolut is steadily becoming a one-stop shop for all things crypto. Since it was accepted into the FCA's full register of crypto asset firms, we've seen a series of new features such as the introduction of a crypto debit card and crypto staking.

The user-friendly digital app marries its current account services with its cryptocurrency features to create a seamless user experience. Customers can buy, hold and exchange 90+ cryptocurrencies in-app within seconds. Using funds from your Revolut current account, you can start investing almost immediately.

From the app, you will be able to choose which cryptocurrencies to invest in, set up recurring buys, send crypto to other Revolut users and take advantage of performance analytics to help you understand how your portfolio is performing. You can add a crypto spending mode to your existing Revolut debit card, which allows you to pay for purchases with instantly converted tokens.

Revolut also has a series of Learn and Earn modules to teach crypto basics to beginners. If you pass the quiz, you will receive a small amount of DOT, 1INCH or AVAX coins as a reward. Plus, you can now stake certain tokens to earn rewards on your cryptocurrency.

Gemini has an in-house NFT marketplace, which is why it's our pick for the best exchange for NFTs. Nifty Gateway is one of the biggest NFT marketplaces in the world, best known for launching NFT collections by famous musicians.

Nifty Gateway provides an accessible way to buy, sell and store NFTs. It's a custodial platform, which means all the NFTs are stored in a secured wallet powered by Gemini's security technology. It also provides access to a good variety of popular collections, including CloneX.

Most NFT platforms require customers to pay in Ethereum, which can introduce crippling network or gas fees. But through Nifty Gateway, you can use your Gemini balance to purchase your chosen NFT, taking away the hassle of signing transactions and calculating gas fees. Nifty Gateway also covers gas fees when minting, buying and listing an NFT for sale.

Uphold has an expansive staking program. It works with blockchains that use proof of stake (PoS) as the mechanism for validating and processing transactions and creating new blocks in a blockchain. This means there is no lending involved whatsoever.

If you have a minimum balance of a supported PoS token, you can validate transactions and get rewards for doing so. You need to pledge your tokens to a validator for the purpose of validating transactions on the network, but you are compensated in the form of rewards. Under Uphold's staking service, you will receive your rewards weekly. How much this is depends on the crypto network and how much you actively stake.

What makes Uphold stand out is that it allows you to do this with 32 different tokens, making it one of the largest PoS staking programs available.