The account, verification, funding and order steps as this platform runs them — not a generic exchange walkthrough.
Crypto-asset prices can move sharply in either direction and you can lose the whole amount you put in. Nothing on this page is investment advice, a recommendation, or a forecast, and it does not take account of your circumstances. Only commit money you can afford to lose.
Read the full risk disclosure →Ether (ETH) is the native asset of the Ethereum blockchain, and it is what the network charges to execute transactions and smart-contract code. Ethereum is secured by proof-of-stake, where validators lock ETH in order to propose and attest to blocks.
This is a description of the asset, not an opinion about it. We do not publish forecasts, targets or recommendations for any asset we list.
You buy ETH by spending the quote asset of one of these markets, so you need a balance in that quote asset before the order can fill.
We could not read the live market list just now. Rather than show markets that might be out of date, we show none — the current list is on the fee schedule.
Steps two and three are server-side gates on the funding path: skipping them does not slow you down later, it stops the deposit outright. Step five is the one that surprises people — a settled deposit and a spot order do not draw on the same balance.
Registration asks for your email, a username, a password, an account currency chosen from a short list (USD unless you pick another), your date of birth and your country of residence. You must be 18 or over, and you are asked to accept the Terms of Service and the Risk Disclosure before the account is created.
Some countries of residence are not served. If yours is one of them, registration is refused at this step rather than after you have deposited.
Create an account →We email a single-use verification link that is valid for 24 hours. Opening it marks the address verified; if it expires or does not arrive, you can request a new one from inside the app once you are signed in, and the previous link stops working. There is a short cooldown between resends.
Until the address is verified the funding endpoint refuses the request outright — this is a server-side gate, not a reminder banner.
Identity verification is submitted from the KYC screen in your account: you upload the required documents and they are reviewed. The decision is mirrored back onto your account. Until it is approved the funding screens carry a banner telling you verification is required; your actual status, and the status of each document you sent, are shown on the KYC screen itself rather than on the funding screens.
Deposits and withdrawals are blocked until verification is approved. Both the deposit path and the payment-provider path re-check it independently.
Identity verification →The Funds screen lists the payment methods that are actually available to you, along with the minimum and maximum amount each one accepts. Choosing one opens the payment at the provider. Your trading-account balance is credited when that payment settles, not when it is started.
Which methods appear is an operator setting on this deployment. If the list is empty, no funding method is enabled for your account yet — nothing is hidden behind a further step.
Funds →Your money sits in two separate balances: the trading account, which is where a settled deposit lands, and the spot wallet, which is what a spot order actually spends. The Wallet screen shows both side by side and moves an amount from one to the other. A transfer does not convert anything — it moves your account currency as it is.
A zero on the spot terminal right after a deposit usually means the money is still on the trading account and has not been transferred across. It is not missing.
Wallet →Open the spot terminal, select a ETH market, and choose the buy side. You can place a market order, a limit order at a price you set, or a stop-limit or stop-market order. A limit-style order needs a price, a stop-style order needs a stop level, and every order needs a quantity and a time-in-force.
You spend the market’s quote asset, so you need that asset in your spot wallet — not just any balance. If you hold one asset and the market you want is quoted in another, Convert swaps between them inside the spot wallet first.
Spot terminal →A market order fills immediately against whatever is on the book. A limit order only fills if the market reaches the price you set — until then it rests on the book, and it can end up filling in part, or not at all. An order below the market’s minimum order value, or off its price or quantity step, is rejected outright rather than partially accepted.
Nothing here predicts whether your price will be reached. Whether an order fills is a fact about the market, not something this platform can tell you in advance.
Trading rules →Each fill is charged the maker or taker fee configured for that market — maker when your order was already resting on the book, taker when it filled immediately. The ETH you bought sits in your spot wallet, where you can hold it, trade it again, or request a withdrawal to an external address on a network we have enabled for that asset. A withdrawal request is not broadcast straight away: the amount leaves your balance and the request is queued for review, then sent on-chain once it is approved.
Withdrawals are per asset and per network, and only where that network is enabled. If you have turned on two-factor authentication or address whitelisting, both are enforced on the request. Crypto sent on the wrong network cannot be recovered.
Fee schedule →Other guides: How to buy Bitcoin