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Reliability Score · methodology v1.0 · updated 2026-08-16
KuCoin: 73/100
Six components, each with its reason and sources below — the timeline keeps the full incident record visible.
Score over time
Held at 73 since we began tracking on 2026-06-23 (198 daily readings, no change). The line chart appears once the score moves.
Score breakdown
Withdrawal reliability weight 25%
95
1 recorded withdrawal incident within the 24-month window, weighted by severity and recency.
Proof of reserves weight 20%
70
Merkle-tree PoR with third-party involvement and stated 1:1 backing (snapshot as of 2026-02-28 at verification); exact cadence unverified.
Regulatory standing weight 20%
55
MiCAR CASP licence (Austria FMA, decision 2025-11-27; Vienna EU entity serving 29 EEA markets, launched Jan 2026). Heavy recent enforcement: US DOJ guilty plea ~$297M with a >=2-year US market exit (Jan 2025); Canada FINTRAC penalty C$19.6M (2025, under appeal); CFTC settlement permanently barring the operator from US customers (reported Mar 2026).
Security history weight 15%
100
No recorded security incidents within the 24-month decay window.
Support quality weight 10%
28
Trustpilot suspended the rating after removing fake reviews and issuing a guidelines-breach notice; ~74% one-star among remaining reviews (2026 third-party check). Conservatively scored.
Operational maturity weight 10%
68
Founded 2017; top-15 spot volume; Seychelles operator entities with a new Vienna EU entity. The 2020 hot-wallet hack (~$281M, outside the decay window) ended with users made whole via recovery + insurance fund.
Incident timeline · facts with dates
2025-04-15
Withdrawal · sev 1
Service disruption incl. withdrawals during the AWS outage of 2025-04-15; restored within hours.
source2025-01-27
Regulatory · sev 4
US DOJ guilty plea with ~$297M in penalties and a >=2-year exit from the US market (2025-01-27); founders left management. Canada FINTRAC later imposed its largest-ever penalty, C$19.6M (2025, under appeal).
source2024-03-26
Withdrawal · sev 2
After US DOJ/CFTC charges (2024-03-26), heavy outflows were accompanied by user-reported withdrawal delays; no official halt was declared and KuCoin stated user assets were safe.
source
How this score is computed — weights, rubrics, decay, neutrality: /exchanges/methodology. All venues: /exchanges.
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Not investment advice. Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR. Reliability Scores are information, not recommendations: every negative datapoint is dated and sourced, the methodology is public, and no exchange can pay to change a score.