Bitvavo vs KuCoin.

We don't hand out safety verdicts — we keep a sourced record. The current Reliability Score for Bitvavo and KuCoin is stated above, each dated to the day it was last written. The score compresses documented withdrawal reliability, proof-of-reserves practice, regulatory standing, security history, support quality and maturity into one number, with every negative data point dated and sourced, and older incidents decaying over 24 months.

The component-level basis — which incidents, which licences, which proof-of-reserves cadence — is one click away on each exchange's page. Read the dated record for Bitvavo and KuCoin there before weighing the one-number summary; the score is a compression, not a substitute for the sources behind it.

Full sourced basis, incident by incident: Bitvavo · KuCoin.

Bitvavo publishes 0.15% maker / 0.25% taker on its base tier; KuCoin publishes 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker on its base tier. On the brochure, KuCoin looks cheaper — but the published fee is only one part of the real cost. Neither exchange is measured in this dollar comparison: Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, and KuCoin's fee schedule isn't verified for its dollar rail, so it is left out rather than priced at the EUR-book rate. The cards above state that rather than showing an estimate.

Where an exchange publishes a fixed BTC withdrawal fee, the live cards include it; where no fixed number is officially verifiable, the total honestly excludes withdrawal and says so — some exchanges instead pass the live network fee through and disclose it at withdrawal time, which is a data point, not a gap. For your own size and asset, the live comparison recomputes everything in real time.