Last updated on March 30th, 2020 at 01:12 pm
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According to the latest CryptoCompare’s Crypto Exchange Benchmark ranking for Q4, 2019, Luno still ranks as the only African exchange on the top 20 worldwide.
The cryptocompare rankings is a popular crypto ranking website and is widely respected in the industry. It also ranks 160 plus spot exchanges across 64 metrics. It serves as a guide to identifying the lowest risk exchanges in the space.
The latest cryptocompare ranking also provides some insights into the space as shown below:
- 30 percent of crypto exchanges possess a crypto exchange license or is registered as an MSB.
- While only four percent of these exchanges normally offer some form of crypto insurance.
- 56 percent requires strict KYC verification on users.
- 46 percent of the exchanges incentivize and reward traders through free airdrops.
- 33 percent of exchanges offer margin trading.
- 96 percent of exchanges offer 2-factor authentication (2FA) for security.
- It’s only 16 percent of exchanges that stores more than 95 percent of it’s crypto holdings in cold wallet.
- 41 percent of exchanges organise trading competition to increase the trading volume.
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