Work out whether you can register, before you argue about fees.
The button to press is the easy part. The harder parts are a region selected wrongly, KYC documents that do not match, or a funding route that was never open where they live. This goes through it in the order it actually happens.
Check your own situation in the tools firstIf you have not opened an account yet, read the Binance sign-up walkthrough first: eligibility checks, which field the referral code goes in, and why KYC gets sent back — strung together in the order you actually hit them.
Risk notice: crypto prices move violently, and leveraged or perpetual products can take your entire margin. This site publishes operational guidance and public rules. It is not investment advice, and it does not decide for you whether to be here at all.
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Eligibility and region
Which regions cannot register, and why the country you pick has to match your document.
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Verification
The reasons documents get rejected, and the one fix that applies to each.
03
Money in and out
Which routes are open to you, and where the risk sits when you are the one receiving.
04
What it really costs
Maker, taker, discounts and premium, once they are stacked the way the exchange stacks them.
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Everything here
16 articles · 5 toolsGetting Started
Establish eligibility before registering, then get through verification. This section sets the ceiling your account will live with.
- Binance sign-up walkthrough: eligibility, referral code and KYC
- Choosing your country at sign-up, and whether you can change it later
- Eleven reasons verification gets rejected, and each fix
- Four doors to lock on day one
- Referral code missed or mistyped: can it still be fixed
- Which countries cannot open a Binance account: reading the official list
- Binance verification when your residence and your ID country differ
Deposits & Withdrawals
Money in and money out run on different rails, and the risky moment sits in a different place for each.
- Buying USDT with P2P: the full flow and where it actually goes wrong
- Buying USDT with HKD via FPS: faster rails, touchier compliance
- Cashing USDT back to a bank account: time, cost, and getting unstuck
- Selling crypto for cash: lowering the odds of a frozen account
- You bought the coin and the withdraw button will not move
- Turning Binance USDT into HKD in a Hong Kong bank account: three routes and the receiving-side risk
Fees & Costs
The percentage on the fee page is rarely the number you pay. Several layers sit between the two.
Tools
A checker, a calculator, a validator, a checklist builder and a converter. Five different kinds of question, and none of them phones home.
About this site
Who writes it, how it is funded, and the limits we hold ourselves to.
Three dossiers, filed by question
Re-cut across sectionsThe sections above follow the order you meet things in. The dossiers follow the question you arrived with, so the guide and the calculator for one problem sit on the same page.