Borderpost

Affiliate disclosure

Borderpost earns from some outbound links, but only to exchanges that are compliant in the market we are writing about — and a payout never moves an availability call. Here is exactly how it works.

Borderpost is free to read, and some of the outbound links on the site are affiliate links: if you click one and open an account, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This page explains how we keep that from bending the advice — because on a site about where money can legally go, the incentives have to be visible.

We place an affiliate link to an exchange only inside a market where that exchange is registered or authorised to serve retail users. So on the UK sections you will only see links to FCA-registered firms; on the EU sections, only MiCA-licensed CASPs; and so on. Where an exchange is barred from a market — Binance, KuCoin, Bitget or MEXC in the UK, EU or US, for instance — we name it for context but never link it. Every affiliate link uses a /go/ redirect and carries rel='sponsored nofollow'.

Who pays us, and who does not

The exchanges we can earn from are mainstream, reputable venues such as Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Crypto.com, eToro, Bitpanda and SwissBorg, each through its official programme. We also regularly recommend options that pay us nothing — Bitstamp, which runs no affiliate programme, and self-custody wallets — whenever they are the honest answer. Naming the unpaid option is how we prove a payout is not driving the call.

What we will never do

We will never promote presale, airdrop, meme or 'guaranteed-return' tokens; never link an exchange into a market that bars it; never accept payment to change an availability verdict; and never help anyone bypass a geo-block or KYC check. We do not give financial, tax or legal advice, and crypto is volatile — you can lose everything you put in. Questions about any of this are welcome at the contact desk.